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Health Care: UK vs US

Universal Health Care

Comes in different forms, but shares the basic idea:

The government uses taxpayer money to ensure that every citizen has access to medical care. In this way no citizen can be denied coverage, because of lack of money.

Universal health care forms a large expense for governments. 

All wealthy industrialized nations have universal health care. No need to add these countries include the UK.

Be aware: The U.S. has no universal health care. It is the the only wealthy, industrialized nation without it. 

Universal health care has both advantages and disadvantages. Write down at least 2 pros and cons you can think of.

Disadvantages

• Healthy pay for the sickest
  
• Less financial incentive to stay healthy
  
• Long wait times for elective procedures
  
• Doctors incentivized to cut care to lower costs
  
• Health care costs may overwhelm government budgets
  
• Government may limit services with low probability of success

Advantages

• Lowers overall health care costs
  
• Lowers administrative costs
• Standardizes service
• Creates a healthier workforce
• Prevents future social costs
• Guides people to make healthier choices

Pros and cons national

health service

The US health system

The United States has a mixture

 of government-run and 

private insurance.

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