Health Care System Analysis

The United States “is among the wealthiest and most prosperous nations in the world, yet its government is unwilling, or incapable of providing adequate, basic health care to all its citizens”. The health care system in America is known for being non-affordable and non-caring for its citizens, moreover, is “antiquated, messy and inefficient”. A system in which people with money are the only ones with the privilege of being able to acquire one. Many countries like Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Malaysia, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, to mention some, are known for having simple, affordable, and a comprehensive health care system. A few of them do not work at its best, due to corruption, for personal experience, the Mexican health care system;

According to Dr. Belk’s findings, the search for a universal health care system goes as far as 1912 around the time when “Theodore Roosevelt was trying to retake the Presidency as an independent candidate” and one of his progressive reforms was to create a national health insurance program. However, since he lost the election, it took years for this issue to become a political one. In addition, before the 20’s health care, was not expensive and to think of an insurance in health care was absurd. Later on, in the virtue of scientific discoveries and advancements, the cost of health services had to rise, so very few were the ones that were eager to pay for them unless they really needed the treatment and in some of the cases, they were “so sick it was too late” to do something to cure the illness. Therefore, business was not good for doctors and hospitals since only the wealthy and the dying would reach for their services. Due to the circumstances, and in the search to ensure health to everyone, Baylor University came up with a solution, for .50 cents a month; a person would be cover if hospitalization were needed in case of sickness, so the first insurance was born in 1929 by the name of “Blue Cross”. Although during the Great Depression the health program had a setback, World War II changed the course of health insurance. Companies were buying it for their employees, later on, it became popular due to the fact that it became tax-free for the employer and became one of the benefits for the