Moreover, healthcare facilities in United States unlike many developed countries are largely owned and operated by a private sector. 58% of Americans community hospitals are today non-profit 21% are for-profit, and 21% are government owned. These health care problems within the US have continued to persist over the years despite available resources by the government to protect the right to health, repeated health reform efforts and record levels of health care spending. Through critical analysis, because social determinants, like race, income and environmental strongly influence individuals who become ill and those that receives access to quality health care, the health care challenges unduly affects under-resourced communities and disadvantaged groups, people living in poverty, immigrants and people of color. The video clearly portrays how the US continues to lag behind in issues of health care policy. The German health care system, for instance, is unique in many aspects in its attempt to combine a universal coverage plan on the one hand and competition among sickness funds, on the other hand. The US health care system is one-sided and never considers the benefits that the two drives.
- b) The Obamacare Healthcare bill was a bill that was initially drafted to grant more rights to Americans and help reduce the inequalities in health care system. Furthermore, ObamaCare was intended to assist and offers ordinary Americans particularly the lower middle-income Americans subsidies to obtaining affordable and quality health insurance. Likewise, through Obamacare Healthcare bill, expansion of Medicaid to approximately 20 million more Americans was to be effected. Obamacare Healthcare bill was to seek to reform wasteful spending in the healthcare system and specific health care programs that were not working initially. Obamacare was to warrant that Americans were able in a position to obtain quality medical attention irrespective of race, state, any preexisting conditions or income. Obama’s health care bill was to regulate the insurance companies, but at the same time allow health care choices to remain between the patient and his or her doctor( Pipes, 78). Assuming these proposals worked effectively, the system would benefit a lot of individuals who obtain this insurance.
However in my critical analysis of the plan, it has failed to ensure it leaves to its spirit. Rationally, it has been unpractical to implement the health care plan effectively. In the short run, the provisions allow for congestion of the health care systems that goes against the intended goal of the plan (Pipes, 36). The congestion will also be soon experienced in the health insurance. This can be seen in the rate at which population is growing compared to the health care system itself. The plan also makes patients seeking these health care systems be on the providers of health care insurance. This because it becomes difficult for government agencies monitors the services through keen observation, one can agree that there is a lot that has to be done in the health care system in totality. Overall, the health care challenges are the result of the commodification and privatization of the U.S. health system, which normally reflects market imperatives or profit interests that devalue dignity, human needs, and equality.
Work cited
Pipes, Sally. The Truth About Obamacare. Washington, DC: Regnery Pub, 2010. Print.
