Health care is increasingly expensive in the United States, is it time to adopt European style universal health care?

The single mt effective challenge United States’ adherence market realm health care. Wt defenders market fail recognize United Ss health care decidedly non-market.

As Edith Rasell argues:

“But lt reasons price sales health care services restrained usual market forces. First, people, buying recommended health care service option. Physician recommends particular medicine procedure, people wl follow recommendation, means gg wt ts pay it. my cs price test procedure plays role decision wr buy it.

The influence market forces health care influenced people health insurance. health care coverage priority my people, despite expense. se insurance policy, cost actual care fraction total cost zero. Thus, effect price determining service wl purchased diminished.” (70)

Further undermining competitive nature industry individuals ideal able distinguish competing insurance corporations (i.e. sickly) self-same customers companies look avoid dn rates. Thus, sense, te real positive incentive insurance companies provide disservice, attract my knowledgeable invalids.

Since simple market model United Ss health care sm dreadfully flawed, opponents socialized approach medicine disingenuous represent medical conflict bn government control control “the invisible hand.” Instead, merely contest bn efficiency dt bureaucracies. Furthermore, se United health care expenditures country world, spending 13.6% income health services, we simultaneously lagging mh rest developed world life expectancy, me importantly healthy life expectancy, we ranks 24th 70 years, 1.6 ys ahead nearby Cuba (WHO), ss strong argument me fundamental change.

Furthermore, prices health care United Ss financing non-essentials. Hospitals he impressive lobbies, Bigger financial staffs, care significantly improved. addition effect complexity health insurance industry “created costs $67 billion or wt United pay Canadian type institutions” (White 151). country we or 15% population lacks adequate health coverage, that’s $67 billion tt use.

Rasell, Edith. “Health Care Reform.” Reclaiming Properity. Ed. Tom Schafer Jeff Faux. London: M. E. Sharpe, 1996.

White, Jospeh. Competing solutions: American health care proposals international experience. Washington. Brookings. 1995.