Discuss two problems found within the U.S. health care system and discuss how the U.S. health care system compares to countries around the world.
What will be an ideal response?
Correct answers vary but can include that there has been a broad consensus that the U.S. system of health care is badly flawed because of high cost and access issues.
In 2015, health care spending in the United States reached $3.2 trillion, almost $9,990 per person. The United States spent almost 18 percent of its gross domestic product on health care in 2014--the highest percentage among OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries by a considerable margin.
The cost is high because Americans love expensive advanced medical technologies, there's a profit motive instead of a nonprofit structure, there are lobbyists that push back on cost reductions to maintain profits, Americans have a culture hubris and think they deserve the best, the aging population spends more proportionally than the younger age-group, and large numbers of well-off Americans drive up the cost because they will spend any amount to recover from illness.
Despite the high costs, the U.S. health care system fares poorly in comparison to the health care systems in other countries. Life expectancy in the United States is among the lowest of the high-income nations in the world. In addition, the infant mortality rate in the United States is higher than the infant mortality rates in many low-income countries.
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