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A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE UNITED KINGDOM HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS
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A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE UNITED KINGDOMHEALTHCARE SYSTEMS.
From a global perspective, The United States and The United Kingdom (dependent variable) has
one of the world's best health care systems. However, these countries' health care systems differ
due to the factors (independent variable) such as economy, political institutions, interest groups,
history, citizen's attitude towards government, and the private sector. These factors will help
analyze the two health care systems to find out which one is better than the other.
We have quite many similarities between the U.S. and the U.K. health systems. To start with, in
both nations, the private sectors are the leading health service provider. Even though the U.S. has
an extensive private healthcare system, the U.K. highly depends on the private sector for medical
services. In both countries, the governments invest in the healthcare system by subsidizing
services to ensure that individuals access healthcare services in the private and public sectors
access the services at an affordable rate. Besides, most hospitals are owned by either profit-
making organizations or charitable organizations. The majority of the citizens in both nations
access medical services through health insurance, Medicaid programs, and Medicare
(Papanicolas et al., 2018). Only a tiny fraction of citizens use their financial resources to cater to
medical services.
The outcome of healthcare systems in both countries is world-class, making the differences in
healthcare services minimal. The two nations are ranked among the leading nations globally due
to the private risk financing system in the United States, and the United kingdom has the national
tax-based system. These programs have been of great aid in financing the health system using
the two nations' available resources. The response of health systems in both the U.K. and the
U.S. are very high. From the world health organization report, the two nations are acknowledged
,to have the most responsive designs in the world (Bekelman et al.,2016). the elevation of
financial constraints is what enhances the responsiveness of a health system.
Apart from that, there exist several critical differences between the U.S. and the U.K. health
system. The U.S.'s health care system is relatively expensive compared with the U.K.'s health
system alongside other developed countries like Germany and China. At the start of the 21st
century, the U.S. healthcare system's cost increased more than it did in the past century. On the
contrary, in the United Kingdom, approximately 80% of the aggregate government expenditure
was used to public-fund healthcare accounts. On every spent in the United States, a substantial
fraction goes to pharmaceutical products, hospital care, investment programs in the health sector,
and clinical services, making the Medicare cost high (Papanicolas et al., 2018). The health care
system in the U.K. is sponsored wholly by the government, which makes it different from the
health care system of the United States. As opposed to the United States healthcare system,
people use private or public healthcare services according to their needs and not their ability to
pay in the United Kingdom (Bryant, 2019).
U.K.'s health care system is characterized by National Health Insurance that makes everyone
covered as a matter of right. In contrast, the private health care market dominates in the U.S.,
where millions of Americans remain uninsured. Due to the Affordable care Act, many poor and
middle-income families are now eligible to obtain financial assistance for health care in U.S.
(Trudy Lieberman, 2012). U.S. health insurance is no doubt complex and has its own culture.
Critics advocate the U.S. health care system as chaotic and confusing. People in the U.S. are
confused about getting health care and paying for the service. But people in the U.K. do not have
to be worried about such issues. In all the critical health outcome indicators like quality,
efficiency, access, and equity, United States ranks beyond the other major western countries.
, According to the 2014 edition of Mirror, Mirror, considering the data for 11 major advanced
countries, U.K. ranks first, followed by Switzerland. (The Common Wealth fund, 2014).
In the U.S, ownership of healthcare systems is usually privatized. However, the local
government, along with the state, has its facilities. In the United States, there is an absence of
government-owned healthcare facilities that can attend to the general public (Jakovljevic &
Getzen, 2016). As posed to the U.S, the systems that deal with healthcare delivery are maintained
mainly by devolved governments. In the U.S, physicians acquire their training through the
medical education system. Every practitioner must have a medical license that is issued within
state jurisdiction. The increased expenditure in the American healthcare system has triggered an
increased workforce in the health sector. It has seen one American in every eight working in a
healthcare-related industry (Bekelman et al., 2016). Regarding the U.K.'s healthcare system that
devolved governments extensively fund, its workforce is liable to the National Health Service
(NHS). The NHS is the largest employer in the U.K., with more than 1.3 million workers
incorporated within the healthcare sector.
As millions within the U.S. receive coverage through the expanded Medicaid, formulated under
the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (Huntington et al., 2011), many individuals, including children,
have missed opportunities that are met through insuring them. It is due to the lack of knowledge
of existing policies. Both social and paid media have, in the longest time, created great
opportunities through outreach efforts and helped an organization reach its new audiences. Social
media platforms incorporate many tools that help assist an organization when planning. Due to
these factors, various organizations have created campaigns such as the Suncoast Campaign
program, which has come up with digital media that has reduced the number of uninsured
children within the community (Tompson & Dixon, 2017). By posting videos and images and
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