US Healthcare System

Question: Describe about the Generics save for US healthcare system? Answer: Introduction Every nation designs an effective health care system to provide the public with satisfactory health care services, which ensure that the citizens enjoy good health. Each nation adopts different approach while designing such crucial systems, keeping various factors in mind. The health care system evolves in few countries while in others it is planned systematically by the coordinated efforts of the government and other concerned authorities. The development and maintenance of such systems are financed by taxation (Anderson, 2000). A healthcare system is designed for the entire nation; it includes all, from the patients who require medicinal attention to building large healthcare facilities. This kind of systems helps the destitute in availing the medical facility at a minimal cost which otherwise would be very expensive for them and also ensures that the best of medical facilities and superior technologies are available for those who can spend a lot of money for medical treatments (Ge nerics save US healthcare system $217billion in 2012, 2014). In this essay, the health care system adopted in UK and US will be compared and contrasted in order to understand how health care systems differs in different countries and what is the basis for such differences. This will provide a better insight on the concerned subject. Comparison and Contrasting According to a study conducted on seven industrialized countries, UK was ranked 2nd as it has the most efficient healthcare system in the world while US underperformed consistently. UK follows a universal National Healthcare System (NHS) which is supported by the government of UK. This program involves four key provinces, namely, National Health Services Scotland, National Health Services England, National Health Services Wales and Health and Social care in Northern Ireland (Glouberman, 2014). The people are has the liberty to either avail healthcare facilities under this system or choose the private services by investing in private health insurances. The NHS program aims at providing information and added authority to the patients, availability of additional doctors and nurses, more beds and hospitals, better healthcare for old patients, reduced waiting time for patients to take appointments and establishment of tougher principles for all the National Health System associations. Whe reas, US spend a lot of money in designing their healthcare system and it is not governed by any single philosophy. US has the most expensive health care system in the world, however the performance of this system is not satisfactory and has several problems. These services are offered by many distinctive organizations in US. 58% of the high tech health care services are operated and owned by the private sector (Keating, McDermott and Montgomery, 2013). In 2010, under the administration of Obama, some reforms were amended in the health care system with the introduction of Affordable Care Act (ACA) which addressed the problems of the existing health care system. This act established universal medical care coverage in America. The National Health System in UK is segregated into two categories, namely, primary care and secondary care. Primary care is considered as frontline services as this was the first contact point for most of the patients. A wide range of independent contractors ensures the delivery of primary care services. This includes pharmacists, optometrists, dentists and general practitioners. The secondary care services are considered as Acute Health Care or Elective care or Emergency. These are the specialized medical care such as a surgery etc. which is generally recommended by a professional doctor (Malvey and Slovensky, 2014). Whereas, in US, there are two major dominant healthcare services, namely, Medicaid and Medicare. Both of these programs were established under the administration of Lyndon Johnson in 1965. Both of these programs provide care services to the disabled. Medicare is administered under the health programme by federal government. These services are provided to American who a re above the age of 65. And Medicaid is a programme which is designed to finance the healthcare for the destitute and this programme is run jointly by the federal and state government. Other program apart from these two that is functional in US is the, TRICARE program for the civilians, which is run by the Department of Defense. This facility is available for military people and their immediate family members. However, UK lags behind US, when private sector is considered. For example, the numbers of cancer survivors are 40% higher in US than in UK. These survivors involved men and women who were cured within five year after the diagnosis of cancer. US again earns one point over UK, as the numbers of diabetes patient who were cured within six months after the diagnosis were higher in US than UK (Pangalos, Sfyroeras and Pagkalos, 2014). The number of diabetic patients who received well-timed treatment in US was six times higher than UK. Also the senior patients who received hip replacement within six months of the diagnosis in US were higher than that of UK. The National Healthcare System in UK provides care for 100% population of England, while the healthcare system of US provides healthcare cover to only about 28% of the US citizens (Pokorska-Bocci et al., 2014). The National Healthcare program made public health care services available to all the permanent residents of UK, even offering i t for free in the time of need, while the US healthcare system have set an age limit and specific income requirement for availing the public healthcare coverage for its two major program, Medicare and Medicaid. Conclusion After the detailed discussion about the National Healthcare System of two different countries, United Kingdom and United States, it can be seen that how they have different way of administration of these programs. It can be concluded that the world has started focusing on the good health of the citizens and thus devising programs to do their best to achieve this objective. Although UK has been regarded as having the excellent healthcare system in place, they still lag behind US in few cases as mentioned above (Peckham, 2014). 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