Healthcare in the United States

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With the United Nations listing health care as natural born right and the escalating cost of health care America has reached a debatable crisis. Even if you do have insurance it's a finical strain on most families.
In many other countries the health care is government controlled and all citizens are provided government assisted health care. Most systems over in Europe are indeed government controlled and are taxed my wages. The United States government does not pay for most of its citizens healthcare in contrast. If you are fournate enough to afford insurance it's usually through your employer. In comparssion almost all government operated insurances provide better care for babies and pregant mothers than the United States system of health care. The United States system are more flexible than government aided systems though.
The problem in America is the health care crisis. We all fear government ran programs and operations so we are all reluctant to allow this government aided system into our nation. We all wonder how we spend the most amount of money on health care than any other nation and our quality of care is not as high as them other nations. Next year our health care cost is expected to escalate to 4$ trillion dollars. The quality of health care still remains low. In the United States there are high number of people that do not have insurance at all. There are also people paying ridiculous prices for insurance it all has created a modern day crisis and a highly debeated topic in America.
Like any crisis in the United States people are attempting to solve it. One method is the single-player system. This system includes that the government pays for tha doctors and hospital visits. The...

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...ld they spend it on heroic medicine, which may aid in a lot of physical pain and suffering, with substantial compromised quality of life on the other end at the very best . The insurer should be 100% to poffer the patient as much of the savings as possible.
The patient has to be completely free to make this decision, with absolutely no power whatsoeverin the insurance company's hand to force it. On the other hand, giving the opportunity to the patient to consider the expenses against the advantages and them make this decision about their own health care would be morally incorrect.. Indeed, only the patient can justify the morality in the situation which makes this hard decision for himself or herself, instead of some third party government or insurance company bureaucracy. Also, basic economic logic tells people that somebody should be making this decision.

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