Health Care

Paper Summary:

In this article, the writer notes that the healthcare system in the United States is perceived as in crisis as costs rise and as more and more people do not have health insurance. The problem is a political issue in the current presidential campaign. The writer points out that the issue was raised before and met with the first Clinton health care plan in the early 1990s, leading to claims that the sort of fix proposed was a form of socialized medicine like the British system. The writer maintains that the British system was also depicted as a failure that leaves patients waiting for care that they may never get and that is too costly, which were reasons why opponents did not want the same sort of single-payer system for the United States. The two systems as they stand now are different. The writer concludes that both face some crises, though not of the same order, and the British system or a modified version of it has many proponents.

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"A proposal for a National Health Service was made in 1944, describing a system of administration with the central responsibility vested in the Ministry of Health. This would be the guide for the service created in 1948, which presented a radical change in the relationship between the individual citizen and the state and which established a firm government commitment to the development and improvement of the nation's system of health care. There was a hierarchy established with different levels of responsibility. There were fourteen Regional Hospital Boards (later increased to fifteen), and each focused on a university and a medical school. Hospital Management Committees were appointed to operate the non-teaching hospitals. Local health authorities were made up of county councils and borough councils, and through their health committees they provided community and environmental health services including maternal and child welfare, health visiting, home nurses, vaccination and immunization, care and after-care for mental illness, and the maintenance of health centers."

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