The American health care system is undergoing a rapid socioeconomic revolution. Debating healthcare policy, along with the medical, ethical, historical, statistical and political elements that go into it, can be daunting, to say the least. But my heart and brain lead me to think that it’s not a good sign that the United States is the only industrialized nation failing to provide universal healthcare as a right.
Within a general environment of heightening competition, the number of investor-owned for-profit hospitals has more than doubled in the past 10 years, while the number of independent proprietary. for-profit hospitals has declined by half.
Investor-owned for-profit corporations are controlled ultimately by stockholders who appropriate surplus revenues either in the form of stock dividends or increased stock values.
Independent proprietary institutions are for-profit entities owned by an individual, a partnership, or a corporation, but which are not controlled by stockholders.
For-Profits Seek to Maximize Profits and Exacerbate the Problem of Access to Health Care
Although the increase in investor-owned hospitals has been most dramatic and publicized, a rise in investor-owned health care facilities of other types, from dialysis clinics to outpatient surgery, and "urgent care" centers has also occurred. With the dramatic rise in healthcare costs, healthcare providers have increasingly become for-profit businesses. For-profit hospitals have a duty to investors in paying dividends. Single payer insurance seeks to promote community health organizations such as free community health clinics and acute-care centers.
If we continue with for-profits access to health care, it will suffer. Fewer nonpaying patients will be able to get care and some paying patients, who are covered by public and some private insurances, will be unable to find providers who will treat them for certain "unprofitable" conditions.
Here are some of the benefits that people may get from a single payer health care system:
People are guaranteed to receive high quality health care system. This single payer health care system treats the people equally regardless of their economic as well as social status. People will be receiving insurance equally and accordingly.
This is a system that does not require complex billing. Hence, doctors and all other medical personnel can freely carry out medical procedures and lend medicines any time especially if it is greatly needed by the people.
Here are some of the benefits that people may get from a single payer health care system: al personnel can freely carry out medical procedures and lend medicines any time especially if it is greatly needed by the people.
Single payer health care has no limitations. It is open to all the people and covers everything regarding their medical and health care bills.
Since it is a system run by the government, insurance premiums is not evident or doesn’t completely exist compared to private organizations doing the same system.
