After watching the documentary “SICKO” for the past couple of days, it has made me think about the difference in healthcare systems around the world. In Canada, we have access to free health care which is paid for through tax payers. By having a health card in Ontario, it entitles us to health care services which is paid for by the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP). The United Kingdom also has a similar health system called the National Health Service (NHS) which provides healthcare for citizens and it is also funded by taxes. They are established on the idea that healthcare should be available to all (for free), regardless of wealth or status. France is also recognized as one of the best in public health care in the world because of its network of hospitals, doctors, and medical service providers. All …show more content…
In the documentary, I learned that in America, 50 million people are without health insurance. The people who are covered, are sometimes victims of insurance company fraud. In the movie, Michael Moore interviews people who have experienced this and most of the time, these people had assumed they had coverage by insurance for their illness, but in fact were denied it because of reasons like technicalities or a pre-existing condition. What’s the point in paying for health insurance if they’re not going to cover you in times of when you need it? The reason for this is that in order for insurance companies to increase their profits, they put in place cost cutting strategies that would ensure that physicians don’t meet the costs of necessary medical treatments. Basically, instead of helping people, they’re really just making matters worse for them. The U.S, has a higher infant mortality rate compared to other high income countries. About 700,000 families go bankrupt every year because they are unable to pay for their health
.Laura Barnet is another example of another American who is suffering from lack of no insurance. Laura’s insurance decided to not help her cover the necessary costs because she works a lot and pays a high amount of bills. Laura is young, she needs two jobs in order to make money and afford health care on her own.
• Billions of the costs of caring for the uninsured go unpaid or "uncompensated.” Federal and state tax dollars subsidized about 85% of these costs, and that funding mainly goes to hospitals and community clinics. • The uninsured are more likely to delay medical care, which will increase their chances of preventable health problems, disability, and early death. • Nearly 23% of uninsured adults report needing care but not getting it due to cost, compared to just two percent of those with private coverage or Medicaid/SCHIP.
In my opinion, Dope the movie has many element of Subcultural theories and Anomie theory in it. Subcultural state that people that come from run down school, poor neighborhoods and status frustration. Anomie on the other hand, interduces the idea of people accepting cultural goals but not accepting institutional mean. In short, the movie Dope is a story about a kid named Malcolm Adekanbi and is bests friends jib and diggy. The sitting for this story was in Inglewood California in a rundown neighborhood called “The Bottoms”.
The United States is one of the most powerful countries on the planet. The leader in democracy, sheer economic power, and military might. However, the United States is behind in one major issue: Health Care for it 's citizens. The United States is one of the only developed nations to not offer universal health care (Fisher). Without Universal health care there are people who fall into a trapped inside of a 'death spiral ', where the individual cannot receive health care because they cannot afford it, but they cannot afford it because they are too ill to find gainful employment.(Hussey, p. 295).
Sir Michael Marmot put into perspective how serious social disparities are and how they influence health not only between countries but also, within countries. The issue is not medical care; in fact the United States spends the most on medical care. You would initially think the country in which spends the most on medical care must have higher health rates. Well, believe it or not, this is actually false, for instance, sixty-two countries had higher maternal health rates than the United States. This displays that a lack of medical care fundamentally is not the conflict, whereas social inequality is.
“Fed Up” is an eye-opening movie that tells you about the sins of the food industry and that almost everything you know about food and exercise is wrong. First of all, there’s a mantra that is being repeated to obese and fat people that doesn’t actually work. The mantra is “Eat Less, Exercise More.” This phrase doesn’t always work for most people because not only do you need to exercise, you need to actually watch what you put into your body. If I used to eat like 14 bags of chips per day, and then cut it off to 5 bags of chips and a Coca Cola, I doubt that I’d actually lose weight or become healthier.
As I watched Unnatural Causes: In Sickness and in Wealth,I was really shocked at some of the points they made throughout the episode. At the beginning they tell us that America spends about two trillion dollars a years on medicare which is about half the amount of money they spent on Health care around the world. If we look at this number it is huge but there still so many people who do not have health insurance. Health insurance in this country is still a problem for both the rich and the poor. If are unemployed our insurance gets taken away and if we make too much money our insurance still gets taken away.
Popular opinion emphasizes that medical benefits should be equally distributed to everyone. The goal of universal health care is ensure that rich and poor people have the same access to medical care regardless of economic status. Therefore, some countries dispense free health care to their citizen such as Canada and England. The free medical system has brought a great deal of positive influence on our life; however, it also caused various negative results like long wait times and lack of medical equipment. According to free-market Fraser Institute, “4,2000 Canucks” traveled to other countries as “medical tourists” because long waiting time, dismal health care and a want of adequate medical facilities in 2013(Bastasch, Jan. 16, 2104).
Set in the not so distant America that is marred with endless world war, high unemployment, civil direst, and starvation , TERMINUS is a unique alien encounter film. TERMINUS starts with a covert government agency tracking down meeting with an old blind man in the desert who can now see after a meteor drops from the sky and he touches it. He isn 't the first this has happened to, and the men in black have been following the trail of unexplained healings.
The documentary Sick Around the World shows us what different countries do to provide their citizens with healthcare. We see that in Britain no one pays for healthcare it is all just covered in his or her taxes. In Japan, you automatically get a health policy through your job and if you do not work they find a different health insurance for them, and if you lose your job you do not lose your health insurance. Germany uses the Bismarck Model and everyone is offered healthcare, but doctors do not make as much in Germany. Overall, in most of these countries there is no gatekeeper that means that patients do not need a referral to go and see a specialist.
To do this the US must have higher Co-Pays: Oeioke are far more careful in using health services when they have to pay for them themselves. Co-pays should be indexed on income as the high the income the higher the co-pay, no one except those unable to pay should be exempt. On Top of high Co-Pays mandated insurance should only include catastrophic health insurance, any non essential insurances are amenities that should be chosen by the patient based on how much they are willing to spend. Catastrophic Health insurance has high deductibles and is mainly for expensive prolonged treatment. Catastrophic insurance costs an average of 2 percent of what US annual insurance premiums cost(Haseltine).
While people of both countries have the right to obtain healthcare, it will cost them money from either directly paying for healthcare, or by paying heavier taxes and having it provided for free by the government.
Expensive: Privatized health care is expensive in nature. Poor people cannot afford it very easily and do not have a option expect to select public Health care which provide services in cheap. People with low income will have greater burden of medical fees than those with high income. Also, people with high income usually have medical insurance covered by their employing company. But, people with low income usually don’t have a medical insurance covered by their employers.
This allows us to see the health disparities that exist for different countries due to their social characteristics. We will examine the health care industry and how that affects a countries’ health outcomes.
The lack of service in a lower populated area would also be a cause for expensive travel for the population also. Higher populated areas could be the cause of longer waiting times for treatment if the diagnosis is considered a lower concern. The cost of providing services to an entire country will result in higher taxes. As a collective responsibility, everyone in the society would be accountable for the taxes not just a small section, this is very rarely the case in a government based system. Also our countries track record with government run agencies will cause a social justice to be very