Socialized Medicine in the US

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Socialized Medicine in the United States

Health is a very significant aspect of any country 's population According to World Bank (1993

. 1 , it is important for a government to invest in health . Health status of a population will determine their development . This implies that for a country 's economy to grow , the citizens must be healthy . Health affects the productivity of an individual . Research has shown that poor health increases the rate of poverty . In to address this issue most governments

have come up with strategies that will help boost the health status of the public This includes implementing of health policies that will enable health and medical services to be accessible and affordable to all their citizens irrespective of their location and income (Khi et al , 109

The health policies implemented in countries such as Canada and the United Kingdom are based Socialized medicine . Socialized medicine is a system where health care services are funded by the public and its operations directed by the government . It involves the government providing the health facilities and employing the practitioners (Doctors and Nurses . The sole goal of socialized medicine is to make health care services to be universally accessible and affordable (Khi et al , 109

Socialized medicine in the United States is not as well framed as it is in the United Kingdom and Canada . In the United States , the Medicare and Medicaid are the only health programmes that have limited aspects of socialized...