The Inequality of Health Care in America

The picture emphasizes the most common feelings of Americans toward the current healthcare system on which they feel discontent and limited to a system that extent inequality across the nation. By extending inequality, Americans encourage others to protest against government management. Also, persuade the government to improve and reform healthcare for all American equally.

The health care system of the United States has caused many debates and distrust between the citizens throughout the last years for its poorly management. Even after the government’s implementation of new reforms and programs that improved healthcare, citizen regularly criticized them since most of these programs do not cover all Americans equally. According to the U.S. Census Bureau,” there were 28.1 million Americans without health insurance in 2016, a sharp decline from the 46.6 million who had been uninsured prior to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)” (Verywell Health). Here is an example that shows one reform known as “Obama care” that reduced the cost of health care expenditures, but it does not cover all Americans equally because many of them are still uncovered.

To understand Americans, it is necessary to know the way the U.S government approach and settled the funds for health care. Therefore, our group focuses on collecting information about health care, and we developed a mapping concept with the links of reliable data that help us understand the health care management and its issues. One of the most critical information that we found is that our government-delivered healthcare through public and private systems that are causing a massive inequality on health care for some Americans. According to The Commonwealth Fund, “In 2015, about 67.2 percent of U.S. residents received health coverage through private voluntary health insurance (VHI): 55.7 percent received employer-provided insurance, and 14.6 percent acquired coverage directly. Public programs covered roughly 37.1 percent of residents: Medicare covered 16.3 percent, Medicaid 19.6 percent, direct-purchase 16.3 percent, and military coverage 4.7 percent.1” (International Healthcare). By this basic low public coverage, one can see that our government is not providing enough funds for healthcare, and many Americans might have to take private insurance. However, this disproportion leads to protest against the government to reform and improve the health care system to extend it for all Americans reasonably.

The inequality of health care remained the principal focus of America citizens. The only solution that many Americans consider possible is the creation of a universal health care system in the United States. By creating universal health care, the government will avoid the distribution of budget into many programs; instead, it will have to finance only one that reduces inequality. The Tax Policy Center reports, “the federal government spent nearly $1.1 trillion on health care in fiscal year 2018 (table 1). Of that, Medicare claimed roughly $583 billion, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) about $399 billion, and veterans’ medical care about $70 billion” (TPC). Although the U.S financed some programs with more funds than others, the distribution of funds between Medicare and Medicaid reflect that our system is not equally distributed. Therefore, as Americans, we need to encourage and persuade our government to improve our current healthcare system for a universal system that will cover all Americans equally.

2 thoughts on “The Inequality of Health Care in America

  1. I don’t mean to make this a race issue, but yes i do believe in the inequality of health care due to the many cases that i’ve seen in the African american community. It is literally prove that doctors refuse certain treatments to certain people of different back grounds. This is another form of privilege that is displayed by certain doctors. Along with the racial disparity, many people cant afford the treatment that is necessary because prices are completely jacked up by both manufacturer and hospital. The priority is to line the pockets of health care company’s, population control and greed.

  2. Reflect: Healthcare in America prioritizes the elderly and children more than any crowd. It is clear that those in between lack the crowd to push for universal healthcare, the real question is how can you influence those people.

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