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Ch. 8 - Health Care

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Health Care : A Critique

The importance of attending to health care needs cannot be undermined because of the mere fact that they are unlimited , unconstrained and bottomless . This is why health care practice is a never-ending challenge with large rooms for innovation and development in the past decades and in the coming years . The only dilemma which hinders this endeavor is the limited resources that may provide the best health care services to the people who need them at any time

It is sad to note that despite

the big expenditures the United States have allotted for their health care system , they are still lagging behind other industrialized nations as England , Sweden , Netherlands France , New Zealand , Japan , Canada , Australia , Belgium and Denmark in terms of infant mortality and life expectancy rates . Moreover , even with said enormous expenditures there are still those who are deprived of acquiring good and adequate health care services . These are the uninsured

The irony of the U .S . insurance system is that only those with jobs can avail it . The jobless have no room in the U .S . insurance system . And all these individuals , jobless or not , at some time in their lives necessitate health care services . Health care is supposed to be for everyone who needs it . Basically , it is even the reason why these health care practitioners choose this vocation --- to help those who need them but so suddenly , the insurance system takes charge and decides who to render services to . Instead of feeling at peace ' every time one gets sick thinking that the insurance will take care of it , it has become a burden especially for the uninsured . There is no security but a feeling of helplessness . The sad part of this entire story ' is that only the health insurance chief executives get richer as they savor fat millions of bucks they earn each year from the insurance amortizations that are deducted from working Americans . The

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film producer and writer Michael Moore even released a film entitled Sicko ' and has been a very controversial documentary since then after it revealed the real scores of health care injustices in America

The failure of the U .S . health care system is their too much emphasis on curative measures rather than preventive methods of dealing with health conditions . It has been said that the uninsured can be treated and given medical care if their conditions are already terminal or in the last stages . Whatever medical treatment is given if the prognosis or its degree of curability is low , it is still useless . If said treatment has been given at an earlier time when the patient 's condition is still with higher hopes of being restored to health , then the patient can be spared from dying

Another failure is the very high cost of health care in the United States but the possibility of getting cured through its latest technology and procedures have not actually proven to be very effective...

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