Explain the U.S. healthcare system?

To answer your questions:

* About 23% of federal spending is on Medicare/Medicaid. Also, about 15.2% of the USA's GDP is spent on healthcare.

* It compares quite poorly. It spends 15.2% of GDP on healthcare- more so than any western country, and yet in terms of outcomes, it scores very low. For instance, US citizens have an average life expectancy of 77.97 years (40th in the world). While this is high by world standards, it is low by western standards. So in terms of outcome versus spending, it does very badly. Also, about 15% of US citizens are uninsured at present.

* Most healthcare is delivered through private companies, and most money goes to them.

* Most US citizens get insurance through their employers, a few buy it privately, and some get it from the government (not everyone qualifies for it, though).

* The US system is a rather interesting situation. It has really good doctors and really good healthcare facilities, but its overall healthcare system is effectively broken. Costs are high, and coverage is low. For instance, about 46% of bankruptices in the USA have medical debt as a factor.

It's worth mentioning that the USA is the only western country without some kind of universal healthcare system; in most other countries, the government helps provide free or low-cost healthcare to most citizens, whereas in the USA, it's generally all up to you.

In 2013 Healthcare is destined to be the largest single part of the Federal, State & Local Budget:

1.2 Trillion $$$

http://www.usfederalbudget.us/breakdown

US healthcare is the most expensive in the world as well as least effective.

Although Trauma care in the US is the best in the world.

The 20,000 + pages of regulations related to Obama care has yet to define where most of the money will be spent. For sure they will not address the obscene costs added to healthcare by ridiculously expensive lawsuits. Look-up the Party of Lawyers.

Most insurance is still paid for by users - so far.

Most of the health industry is owned by pharmaceutical companies - the highest profit industry in the world.

The own - The Media (billions $ in advertising) - Congress (Billions $ contributions) - Schooling or training doctors to become pill pushers (paying Universities/Colleges to 'school') and worst of ALL Peoples Minds (advertising/brainwashing - ask your doctor if IATROGENIC is right for you)

hi Brandon - i will supply you the outlook of somebody who has lived with an NHS twist of destiny and Emergency Nurse for 10 years. The NHS could no longer be appropriate, besides the incontrovertible fact that that's greater proper than coming up a international the place the individuals with funds can stay and individuals who (for no fault of their very own) haven't any funds, are left to go through. My different a million/2 bargains with all walks of existence: From the same old Joe who walks in after a fall to an Emergency Ambulance transferral after a important automobile-Crash. A&E could handle all sufferers interior of a 4 hour term, this has been set as a useful time-era for all. What happens is an experianced nurse will see the affected person, then triage (a device of ensuring sane point of priority is desperate) the affected person and verify that the emergency maintains to be the emergency ... with regards to a extreme automobile crash - this could be phoned via from the Ambulance paramedics and be arranged for until now the Ambulance arrives. the main significant concern of direction is the quantity of people who use the A&E. We was once waiting to apply favourite Practictioner amenities yet because of the government (reasons for that are a thoroughly diverse undertaking and one i ought to sort a protracted thesis) GPs now tend to make it confusing for individuals to be certain docs extremely so tend to apply A&E as a potential of seeing a doctor, so stressing the dept's ability by making use of managing people who shouldnt be there and additionally demanding those people who take place to A&E anticipating a on the spot provider .. the two comprehensible, yet no longer seeing the bigger image as I see it. yet all in all, as a people, we are blessed to have this provider for unfastened. devoid of it we'd be left to private well being-care, that's a merry-go-around of paying funds right into a fund that's open to abuse by making use of people that run the various strategies. they could no longer as an option be any worse, the priority is greater a ethical one ... many heavily isn't waiting to locate the money for it.

1. Here is a chart at this link answering this question.

2. The federal government and state governments both share the cost of Medicaid.

3. It ranks #37 in quality of care but we do have resources just that everyone cant have them

4. By insurance premiums paid every month by individuals and often shared with employer

5. That is a big question, to be answered separately. Reading the Obamacare website might help you.

it could spell trouble