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Healthcare Assignment | Determinants of Healthcare

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Healthcare Assignment | Determinants of Healthcare

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Running head: DETERMINATION OF HEALTH CARE IN UNITED STATESDETERMINATION OF HEALTH CARE IN UNITED STATESName of the StudentName of the universityAuthor’s note
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1DETERMINATION OF HEALTH CARE IN UNITED STATESDETERMINATION OF HEALTH CARE IN UNITED STATESThe US healthcare system is unique amongst the other industrialized countries. They donot have any universal Medicare system, until the recent enacted legislation that started healthcare coverage for everyone. The U.S health care system can be termed as a hybrid system (Shi &Singh, 2015). It has been reported that 48% of the US healthcare system comes from the privatefunds. 20% comes from the households and 28% comes from the private businesses (Shi &Singh, 2015). This paper will focus on how the standards of care are determined in US. It will also discuss howthe standards will help to improve the health outcomes in our organization. In comparison withthe other OECD COUNTRIES, the per capita spending on health care in US is much greater(Squires & Anderson, 2015). Therefore this paper focuses on the health care determinants of USand would propose the different policies and regulations that have tried to mitigate the highhealth costs and the disparities in the insurance system of the country (Squires & Anderson,2015). It should be noted that out of the 17 high incomed countries the US have a highprevalence of obesity, adolescent pregnancies, cardiac and respiratory diseases, infant mortality,sexually transmitted diseases and many more (Squires & Anderson, 2015).Debates exists that the system is not able to deliver proper healthcare equivalent to the moneyspent. It has been reported that lack of health insurance system in the United States brings about18000 unnecessary deaths in US (Woolhandler & Himmelstein, 2012). There is no facilities ofgovernment owned Medicare system, but there are certain hospitals that are owned by the localgovernment.
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