The World's Healthcare

The World's Healthcare

Healthcare, whether privately insured or government controlled, has always had flaws. Human greed, occasional negligence, and a lack of efficiency dash hopes of an ideal healthcare system. The American healthcare system was drastically changed by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The PPACA, also known as Obamacare, makes health insurance possible for everybody. People are charged with small fees if they don't have health insurance, but this insures that those with the means of getting health insurance are insured. The problem with the PPACA is that despite its efforts to make all americans insured, an estimated thirty million americans will not have health insurance. Furthermore, one of the act's best aspects is also one of it's biggest problems. The act makes health insurers unable to increase the price for patients with pre-existing health conditions or for insurers to refuse to give health-insurance to those patients. This means that a patient who is diagnosed with cancer or diabetes will be charged the same as a healthy patient. Patients in a dire situation don't have to think about their fiscal matters as well as the condition of their bodies. The negative effect of health insures being unable to turn away patients or increase the price for those patients is that patients can easily abuse the healthcare system. Patients who lead unhealthy lifestyles, such as chain smokers, are more likely to have problems with their health, and they are more likely to have to need treatment, which could cost health insurers thousands of dollars.

The canadian healthcare system is similar to the british healthcare system; both systems are government regulated and receive funding from tax. Canadian healthcare is great on the surface. Patients don't have to worry about how they will pay for their operations, and doctors know that they will get paid for their work. The problem with it is that many Canadians are forced to wait for extended periods of time for operations, and doctors lack incentives, such as bonuses, to work and make their patients better. Although I believe that doctors should not receive incentives or bonuses for making their patients better, greed demands that benevolence be rewarded. If a canadian patient is need of treatment, that patient can expect to wait nine and a half weeks for an appointment. The inefficiency of public healthcare makes many Canadians turn to private healthcare.

It is imperative that countries create an ideal health insurance program. The United States is not even within the top ten countries with the longest life expectancy but has the more firepower than any other nation. In fact, the United States is ranked at fifty one. We should look at countries with universal healthcare like Australia, ranked number nine, or even the United Kingdom, ranked number 30, with incentives for