Medical service of the United States is the only one of the leading industrial powers, which has not accepted compulsory health insurance system. About 108 million of Americans cannot afford the visit the dentist. At 45 million Americans have no medical insurance, among them 10 million are children (The Telegraph, 2010). A disease is a direct path to devastation for many Americans. Stunning cost of treatment is partly explained by the fact that it incorporated the cost of potential litigation. If, for example, a defective baby is born, the obstetrician faces the possibility of the court, which resulted in millions of dollars being pulled on this child's life-long maintenance. Accordingly, it is the specter of insurance against medical errors, five hundred dollars to bid up the cost of labor. The Americans have a distinct lack of rest (average of 13 vacation days). Moreover, there is constant stress due to work because the current employers' philosophy is that the more the employee is afraid of being fired, the harder he works. This only increases the reasons to frighten employees. The inability to leave for the hospital together with a tendency to overwork, constant ailments, life on the edge and at the verge of collapse all have a negative effect on the health of employees. Because of all of the above-mentioned reasons, Americans regularly consume numerous pills and vitamins on a daily basis, hoping to avoid a meeting with the doctor. However, medical insurance should not be a privilege only for the Americans, who have enough money; it should be a right provided by the government and everyone should be provided with free health care as a basic commodity.
Among 88% of people, who lack health care, work, but many do not earn enough to pay for private health insurance (The Telegraph, 2010). At the same time, they cannot get government insurance for the poor because their income is higher than the official poverty level. In the case of the treatment of unpaid effect the right of seizure of property of the debtor and the person may remain homeless as medical bills can easily make 20 thousand dollars. In addition, the high cost of health care does not guarantee its integrity. It is estimated that more than half of deaths in hospitals could be prevented. Research conducted in 1986 by the National Center for Health Statistics show that Americans with an annual household income of 9 thousand dollars. And less die three times more than Americans with a household income of 25 thousand dollars and more (Independent, 2009). This only proves that people with less money are not able to sustain their health, which, consequently, leads to death. The country needs to protect its citizens not only from terrorists from far off lands, but from the cold, from the flue and from the health problems that they may be facing at home today.
The average time a person has to wait in an emergency room in the USA is approximately 7 hours. However, if the patient comes to the hospital on his own and not by an ambulance, then he has to go through a registry and only then will he receive the attention of a nurse or cursory, who will determine the seriousness of the condition. After this procedure, the patient can wait for hours until doctor examination. If, despite all this, the patient’s condition requires additional tests or x-rays, he can be left waiting for even more than 12 hours. The experts of the Center Control and Prevention of Diseases/Center for Disease Control And Prevention came to the before-mentioned results in their study. However, the reason for such long waiting ours is the incapability of emergency departments to handle such large crowds of people. According to recent data of the Regional Medical Center of Via Christi/Via Christi Regional Medical Center, the number of people who applied to the emergency room in US hospitals increased by 36% and was 147 749 million of patients in 2002 compared to 108 739 million in 1997 (Independent, 2009). While emergency rooms are still not able to handle the amount of people on hold, if all of these were treated in advance, people would not end up in the emergency room in the first place. If treated right, a cold should never make it to the emergency room, which really is a place for accidents. Thus, simply by providing health insurance for every citizen the government can reduce the work load on the emergency rooms and make them more efficient.
In recent years, in a country with the best doctors in the world and the best hospitals in the world, the situation of health services has deteriorated significantly. In Texas, for example, due to funding cuts, the number of children not receiving free medical care, will increase by 275,000 people (USA.gov., n.d.). This American state has belonged to Palm deprivation championship in the children's right to free medical care - the legacy left by former Governor George W. Bush.
After the war, it is still not possible to compensate for the treatment and medications of poor patients. Draconian taxes established for manufacturers of tobacco products, and other measures taken urgently, have not changed much. And all this, not to mention the astronomical prices for medications in the United States, make drugs more expensive than in any other country in the world, and thus the production of pharmaceutical receive up to 73% of profits. Many Americans are forced to travel to neighboring Canada and Mexico to buy there the drugs they need. A particularly acute problem in Florida - the golden paradise for pensioners in the United States the cost of medicines in the elderly is $3000 per year (USA.gov., n.d.). However, the statistics in the paper show that the US government needs to find the cost and find a way out because leaving its citizens out in the cold with inability to see a doctor is unacceptable, especially for a country spending so much money trying to protect someone other than its very own citizens.
Conclusion
Consequently, the USA Government, needs to provide free medical insurance for its citizens because staying healthy should not be a right only for the privileged but should be a right provided by the government there to protect its citizens. Because today, many of its very own citizens cannot protect themselves from the disease they face.
In America, you can afford to get sick only if you earn a lot of money. Medicine in the US, like everything else, is based on making money, not to help people - with all the ensuing consequences. If you want to pay the minimum, then you have to wait months to receive permission from a specialist, to which you can get only in the direction of the treating physician, and both of you can only select from the list provided to you by the insurance company. Another option is that you have relative freedom to choose a specialist (but also on the list) without a referral doctor, but in this case, you will have to pay, usually 20 percent of the cost of medical services out of your own pocket. That is in addition to insurance, of course.
If you need urgent help, and the doctor, to provide it to you is not included in the list provided by the insurance company doctors, you will have to pay the full cost, which amounts to an average of about $200-$300 for one time! Do you have insurance? No, this doctor does not have a contract with this insurance company. Kindly pay the full price!
References
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Independent. (2009). The brutal truth about America's healthcare. Independent.co.uk. Web. 23 Mar. 2016. Retrieved from http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-brutal-truth-about-americarsquos-healthcare-1772580.html
USA.gov. (n.d.). Health Insurance. USA.gov. Web. 23 Mar. 2016. Retrieved from https://www.usa.gov/health-insurance
