MLA Proposed Health System In US

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Proposed Health System in U.S

The Canada’s health care system is dynamic and based on reforms that have shifted over

the years. This system has demonstrated the fundamental basics of fairness and equity among the

Canadian citizen. Due to this approach, the system has achieved the universal obligation of

providing the ‘’medically necessary health care services provided on the basis of need, rather

than the ability to pay’’.

Under the Canada’s health care system, individual citizens are provided with basic

medical attention. The health care system qualifies all citizens for health care access without

considering their financial status, their medical history or the standards of living. Although there

has been much political controversy on how the health system is administered, the system has

seen Canada emerge with the highest rate of life expectancies and the lowest infant mortality

rates. Therefore there are important aspect to consider in order to propose a working health

system in the United States of America that will have the same effects as in Canada or even

better results in the long run.

To start with, is the proposal of access of health care to everyone in the United States.

Like basic need, good health is the core factor in any economic development of a country. The

health system in Canada offers the access to health care by all citizens and would be the most

influential approach if adopted in the United States. The economy in the United States will

depend on the good health of the citizens. Good health means that citizens are able to access

medical services at all times regardless of the financial status and other limiting factors beyond

their control. The willingness of the doctors to offer this medical services is also important.

Considering that willingness is directly proportional to personal motivation which is a

responsibility by the government to ensure the health sector is supplied with necessary support to

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carry out health care services in an efficient way. The role of the government in delivery of

services to certain groups of people will achieve the purpose of providing access to health care to

everyone. Some of these groups are the people with disability and the poor in the society.

There should essentially be no financial barrier in to health care in United States. The

citizens should be allowed to visit doctors of their own choice and be able to benefit from the

hospital care at an affordable cost or for free for the poor and the disabled in the society.

Working citizen in the United States are not to be forced to depend on their employers for

medical services. This will help reduce the risks involved by the workers in losing their jobs in

case of failing to cooperate with them. Some of the citizens may have historical medical issues

which the employers might find has preexisting and therefore not benefit from the health

allowances meant to benefit them.

The establishment of education systems that reduce the cost involved in health services

will boost the health system in United States. The government should come up with programs

that educate citizens on the importance of embracing health precaution measures to reduce the

risks of exposing them to avoidable health risks. If this programs are funded by the government

more citizens will be aware and therefore enhance the public awareness about health risks. In

Canada, there are health awareness programs that are meant to educate people with disability and

some other specific groups. The same should be adopted in the United States to promote equity

in health service awareness across the country. A proper health care campaign can reduce the

health risks posed by the ignorance of the people and therefore control their health before they

get into some serious health problems.

Distribution of health care to all areas of the country regardless of whether these areas are

urban or rural areas is a system that will ensure proper distribution of health facilities. The health

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care revenues are to be redistributed according to the country’s demographics without

discriminating the rural areas. The rural areas should get funding to cover all the health costs just

like the other urban areas. The health facilities in this rural areas should also be improved to

avoid scenarios where citizen have to travel to cities to get medical attention. In the city doctors

may not be too many to cater for the needs of all the citizens travelling there or may delay them

from getting medical attention in time. Publicly funded health care should be financed with the

general revenue collected from the government’s federal states and the general taxation from the

states. This could be the personal taxes, corporate taxes, the payroll taxes, sales taxes or any

other state allowable taxes. The states should be allowed to charge premium taxes to all services

to help in paying for the publicly funded health care services. The failure to pay the premium

taxes and revenues should not limit the access to the medical services that are necessary to the

citizens. In the book Health Care in Canada: A citizen’s guide to policy and politics, Katherine

Fierlbeck argues that the government should allow for local health service network to have more

organizational responsibility:

The regional bodies are much larger and have therefore allowed local health services

networks to have more organization responsibility. This intermediary form of

decentralization is distinct from devolution insofar has the regional units had little if any

ability to collect and spend their own funds. Fiscal authority remained at the provincial

level, while managerial responsibility rested with the regions. The most apparent was the

potentially inequitable distribution of health services within provinces. Given that the tax

base of each region varied enormously (especially between urban and rural areas). This

would also present the problem of ‘bargain shopping’ by health care users outside of their

own regions, which then require some of the administrative systems to monitor this kind

of usage and possibly provide for compensation. (Quoted in the book, Health Care in

Canada: A citizen’s guide to policy and politics, Katherine

Fierlbeck, 72)

There are also more important aspects of health other than the system itself. There should

be a responsibility by all the United States citizens to embrace the public health which includes

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sanitation and the infectious diseases or related education based on the heath matters. The health

expenditure should also be at an acceptable range because pitting into consideration that most of

the capital involved in administering proper health services if from levies imposed on the

citizens. With the publicly funded health care systems, expenditures vary depending on the

demographic factors. In distribution of the health resources there are areas that will receive fewer

resources compared to other due to the size of the area. To ensure that areas with higher

population are attended to appropriately. States can provide coverage to certain people like the

children or old people not able to visit the hospital. This is possible for the health services not

covered under the publicly funded health care system.

In the current world technology is taking the better part of human interaction. Advancing

the ehealth systems can also help boost the health care delivery systems. The health technologies

such has better record keeping based on the recent technologies will help keep the medical

history of patients up to date. The patients’ security should be a point of focus. In the keeping of

records, medical errors should be avoided or any other medical advent. The health professionals

should be in a position to understand the risks involved in making such errors. The institutions

involved should mitigate these risks and provide solutions in cases where these situations arise.

Measures taken to improve the quality of health care will be geared towards improving the

safety of the patient. In most cases also there are conditions that are kept in waiting especially

when they don’t seem to have emergencies. These conditions deteriorate with time. It is

important that no such cases should be allowed. They can all be attended as they arise to help

reduce such inconveniences.

The health systems in United States should be aimed at maintaining universality. This

may seem politically as a unifying approach but to the most extent it a way to have a well

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improved health structure. The country’s that face uncoordinated health structures and hence

poor health services have no universality. The universal health care strategy comprises of

managing the available resources by making sure that the approaches to health care sector are

controlled by the government and publicly assigned the resources that are sufficient to meet the

health standards. In the United States, there are social programmes that tend to be targeted to

specific group and makes workers end up resenting into due to the fact that they feel they are

paying for the resources but they cannot get the benefit of enjoying them.

Therefore, the strategy to adopt a proper health care system in the United States should be

based on the universal access of health care regardless of the age, employment, income or the

status in the society. The health care administration should be done on the state by state basis for

proper evaluation. This will help rectify the arising shortcomings in the course of health service

delivery. Training of the health workers and the general citizen population should also be

encouraged to avoid risks of exposing them to health hazards.

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Works Cited

Boychuk, Gerard W. National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada: Race,

Territory, and the Roots of Difference. Washington, D.C: Georgetown University Press, 2008.

"Canada's Health Care System [Health Canada, 2011]." Welcome to the Health Canada Web Site

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Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care." World Medical & Health Policy 2.1 (2010): 382-385.

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Thompson, Wayne C. Canada 2013, 2013.

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