Access To Health Care Essay

Nicholas DeBrito
Potter/Beltz
World Studies
22 May 2014
Access to Healthcare
Introduction
In the U.S. 6.2% of people fail to obtain needed medical care due to cost ("Centers for disease control and prevention"). The U.S. has a population of 317 million citizens. This means that almost 20 million individuals in the U.S. cannot afford access to healthcare. This paper is going to focus on how the U.S. has an expensive access to healthcare which makes it very difficult for many U.S. citizens to afford medical treatment. Difficult access to healthcare is happening all over the United States. The people getting involved are many middle to low class U.S. Citizens including little children. This topic is important because access to health services means the timely use of personal health services to achieve the best health outcomes. Access to healthcare can affect: overall physical, social, and mental health status, prevention of disease and disability, detection and treatment of health conditions, quality of life, preventable death and life expectancy ("Healthy people"). Expensive access to healthcare can make it more difficult even for you to afford any of these medical treatments! This paper is going to concentrate primarily on this question: what effect has expensive access to healthcare had on U.S. citizens?

Background
The victims usually end up being middle to low class U.S. citizens including small children. The perpetrator of the American access to health care system is organized by the U.S. government. This is happening throughout every single U.S. state. The healthcare organization in the U.S. started around the year 1930 ("Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"). Data shows that the United States spends more money on healthcare th...

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...ow, we all hope that someday America’s health system will mimic Europe’s system, where general check-ups are free and everything else is cheap, so everyone can have the right to properly access health treatment when necessary. The European health care system would be ideal to the majority of the American population even though it may not be possible. The U.S. government is the only one that could make this actually happen, and for the citizens we can just cross our fingers and continue to hope that one day this change will occur. As for now, we might as well keep working our jobs so that we can make enough money to afford health care. In conclusion, the problems that expensive access to health care cause is important to take into consideration because it involves everyone and it can affect, maybe even drastically change, the quality of any individual's life.