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After watching the Sick Around the World video, you have been assigned the task of creating an universal healthcare system design for your population/citizens, how would you answer the following: * Describe what type of model you would choose to design your system and explain rationale (why). * Explain how your system you have created would cover two underserved population groups such as an ethnic or cultural minority, women, children, elderly, or disabled. * Choose one country ( England ) that has a universal healthcare model (from the list of models in the assignment overview or from the Sick Around the World video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h4rg-DJBd34 * ) and describe how it works. Discuss one positive and one negative. Instructions : All references are relevant, scholarly and contemporary, up to 10 years. Classic nursing works older than 10 years may be included. least 2 references . APA format minimum of 250 words. In-text citations are required in all posts.75% of your p

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Type of model selected
Given an opportunity to design a universal healthcare system for my population, I would
consider the National Health System that has already been incorporated in United Kingdom as
seen in the video. The NHS system model provides free medical services to the citizens. The
system is to be funded by the government with funds obtained from taxation (Ferlie & Shortell,
2001). The rationale of this model is to ensure that each citizen, regardless of gender, age or
disability gets access to health care. Since this is a free model of care, no one is discriminated
and it will therefore cover children, the elderly and the disabled as well. They would be catered
by taxes generated from the working population.
The NHS system in England
Immediately after the Second World War in 1948, part of the revolution in the UK was the
adoption of the National Health Service (NHS).This healthcare model works through funds from
the federal governments that are obtained through taxation. The proportion of tax depends on the
income of an individual. The pool of resources available therefore makes it possible for delivery
of free and quality healthcare (Guest et al., 2015). However, the citizens are sometimes needed to
provide a small fee at the point delivery. One the advantages of the National Health system is
that the patients are able to get free but quality healthcare services. The disadvantage of the
National Health Service is that the wealthy are forced to pay or carter for other people
healthcare.

References
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Guest, J. F., Ayoub, N., McIlwraith, T., Uchegbu, I., Gerrish, A., Weidlich, D., …
Vowden, P. (2015). Health economic burden that wounds impose on the National
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