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Challenges and Solutions in the U.S. Health Care System: Evaluating Costs, Access, and Equity

A research assignment evaluating key challenges and solutions in the U.S. healthcare system, focusing on costs and access.

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Challenges and Solutions in the U.S. Health Care System: Evaluating Costs,Access, and EquityHealth Care System in Turmoil Discuss why the current health care system is in turmoil. Identifytwo major problems of health care and analyze the impact ofeach of the chosen problems onconsumers and the community. Describe the benefits and risks of national health insurance.IntroductionThere isminimalargument the American healthcare system, as it now operates, does notadequately provide quality care for Americans. In addition, the system falls short in providinguniversal care for its citizens. The American system is two-tiered, with the governmentproviding care for a population based on income and age while other citizens pay for carethrough privately managed, premium care insurance providers. Although different in conceptand practice, both are plagued by the same problems which include inadequate treatment forpatients, diminishing quality of patient care, rising costs, inefficient management,andinadequatepay for medical professionals.DiscussionThe costly American health care system, allegedly, has overpromised and underperformed,and, as such, a reduction in public and private funding for research and physiciancompensation seems, to some, justified. This perspective, the focus of intense politicaldebate, has been erroneously advanced citing the US's poor WHO (World HealthOrganization) mortality rankings and that higher ranking countries spend considerably lessper capita for health care.This mistaken allegation, by aligning flawed WHO mortalitystatistics and country rankings, and per capita country health care expenditures, should beseen as prima facie evidence of American health care inferiority and incompetence, and, byinference, poor physician performance.These unfortunate statements, pegged to blemisheddata andinvalidcomparisons, have only fomented confusion, tension, turmoil, and angst

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