Universal quantification

James, you raise interesting points out pharmaceutical pricing, as well as more general pricing issues in our healthcare system. Unfortunately, healthcare costs have been rising dramatically for a wide variety of reasons. Rationing is already occurring whether we acknowledge it or not. Wait times themselves can be seen as a form of rationing. Every provider and healthcare professional must prioritize and decide what tasks to accomplish during a shift, and something will inevitably not be…

The number of people without health care coverage in the United States is one of the major concerns known to advocates of health care reform. A person without insurance is known as uninsured. There were surveys taken to know the amount of people in the United States without insurance and they found out that the number of people uninsured has fallen due to expanded Medicaid eligibility and health insurance exchanges established from the Patient Protection and Affordable care act known as PPACA or…

Rogerian Argument Healthcare for All Americans As we grow and prosper as a nation, the challenges that confront us are phenomenal. The lack of availability of healthcare has become a prominent issue within our country and has continued to elicit considerable debate. In recent years, the number of Americans without access to affordable and quality healthcare has increased tremendously while the facilities available to cater for the increasing number of patients are underfunded. Additionally,…

Canada is a country known to be a welfare state, with socialized healthcare, unemployment insurance, and parental leave being cornerstones of a Canadian social safety net. However, Canada did not start off as a welfare state. For a long time, Canadian citizens were on their own if they had financial hardships. Welfare policies only began to be created in Canada in the 20th century. Today, Canadian citizens now have access to a wide variety of social security, ensuring that they won’t fall too…

Canada’s health care system serves to provide universal health care for all its citizens, regardless of income, medical history, or standards of living. Although this idea sounds rather appealing in theory it comes along with complications and is problematic in many ways. Despite Canada’s healthcare system being meant to provide universal healthcare to all citizens this often fails in regards to aboriginal people and people in Northern Canada, which includes the Yukon, Northwest Territories, and…

Universal Healthcare Universal healthcare is a hot topic in America. According to a Gallup poll in 2015, roughly 50% of Americans agree with universal healthcare, while the other 50% disagrees with it. Generally, the pro side (the half that agrees) are lower middle class or unemployed with lower incomes, whereas the con side (other half that is against) are majority upper class with higher annual incomes. The pro side, like myself, would tend to argue that universal healthcare would help the…

When looking for health insurance it is very important to keep in mind that there are many companies out there that will try offering you the best prices for your needs. However, not all of them are known all around the United States and not all of them offer you the same benefits. One of the many companies offering coverage in the continental United States is Private Health Care Systems best known as PHCS. They are the primary national PPO network and care management product of the company…

national government, provincial taxes pay the insurance providers of that province. In the United States, not everyone is insured, leading to financial, economic and health problems that are non-existent or not as pronounced in the U.K. and Canada. Universal…

When considering about the overall structure of the Australian health care system, it mainly comprises in to two different sectors which is public and private health service providers, settings, participants and a variety of funding mechanisms. Health services include medical practitioners, hospitals (public and private), clinics and other agencies (government and non-government), nurses and allied health care professionals. These health sources deliver vast health services such as primary…

Texas Issue The most important issue facing Texas today is Health Care because the Health and Human services make up the second biggest part of the Texas budget. Despite the billions of dollars spent, Texas remains the state with the highest proportion of uninsured in the country, at about 24 percent. In fact, 4.3 million Texans including 623,000 children lack health insurance. Texans rates, 1.75 times the national average, create significant problems in financing and delivery of health…