Why does the US government spend more on healthcare than any other industrialized country?

Political discourse on health spending often focuses on prescription drug prices and administrative costs as being the primary drivers of high health spending in the U.S. compared to other nations.

Is healthcare a right or privilege in the United States?

Our country has a system designed to deny, not support, the right to health. The United States does not really have a health care system, only a health insurance system. That committee codified our human rights, including, at Article 25, the essential right to health.

Why doesn’t the United States have a universal health care system?

The diversity of the US also helps explain the absence of a universal health care system. If you go back a hundred years, the first countries where workers successfully pressed for pensions and unemployment insurance were relatively homogeneous places like Germany and Britain.

Which countries have universal healthcare?

Though different, the United Kingdom, Canadian, Swiss, and French systems are all considered universal. And in each country, the government spends less per capita on healthcare than the U.S. government spends.

Can the United States afford universal care?

That includes hospitals, doctors, pharmaceutical corporations, and insurance companies. The only way the US could afford universal care would be to cut costs. That would mean confronting some or all of those who benefit from the current state of affairs.

Does universal healthcare prevent the role of private providers in healthcare?

Thus, universal healthcare does not necessarily preclude the role of private providers within the healthcare system, but rather ensures that equity and effectiveness of care at population and individual levels are a reference and expectation for the system as a whole.