Designing the Perfect Healthcare System to Improve US Healthcare

This essay proposes a design for a perfect healthcare system in the US, addressing key issues such as GDP expenditure on health services, equal access for all citizens, affordability, and increased life expectancy. The proposed system emphasizes healthcare as a basic human right, ensuring medical facilities are accessible to everyone through a combination of mandatory insurance covers (scaled according to income), government funding for the physically and mentally challenged, and the creation of specific insurance companies. Primary care implementation, including evening centers and mobile clinics, is suggested to provide medical healthcare to the aged and those with challenges. Price controls on medical services and drugs, coupled with reduced taxation on drug companies to encourage medicinal drug development, are also recommended. The essay concludes by advocating for the merging of roles within healthcare administration to reduce costs, aiming for a healthcare system that enhances accessibility and affordability for all.

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The Perfect Healthcare System
A perfect healthcare system would obviously exist whereby we assume there are no
challenges that come in the way as the different aspects of the system are put in place. In the US,
a perfect system would aim at reducing the gross domestic product on health services, be able to
reach all the citizens equally, be affordable and be able to increase the life expectancy. The
system will address how healthcare services will be accessible by all the patients any time and
how to implement the system. Healthcare should be considered a basic human right because each
person gets unwell at least once in a lifetime.
The perfect healthcare system that I implement will enable all the people to access
medical facilities. In this system, all public hospitals and dispensaries will offer these facilities
whenever they are in demand. All those employed will be required to obtain an insurance cover
that is supposed to be paid for each month through the check-off system. This insurance cover
will be paid for according to one’s income whereby those earning more will have to pay more for
their covers. This funds will be in return be used to fund the medication in different hospitals
even for those who are not employed (Sturmberg & Martin, 2013). The government should make
an allocation of funds to facilitate the medical access of the physically challenged and the
mentally challenged.
The government should form specific insurance companies that will offer medical covers
and also make sure all the employed have taken these covers. The insurance companies will
implement a superfluous check-off system which will enable them to receive their funds directly
from the employers. The government can also consider creating more job opportunities for the
unemployed to help raise the revenues for facilitating this program. Whenever one is employed,
they should submit their employment details which will enable the insurance companies to work

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properly (Blank, Burau & Kuhlmann, 2017). Medical covers given to the employed should be
able to cover their families such as wife/husband and children.
Primary care implementation will be one of the best techniques to provide medical
healthcare to the aged, physically challenged and the mentally challenged. These services include
coming up with evening centers where medical facilities are provided for smaller versions of
illness such as flu. These centers will be located in all parts of the country near residential places
and also in rural places (Barjis, Kolfschoten & Maritz, 2013). There will be special vehicles that
transport the patients to these clinics for medical check-up and medication. Also there will be
mobile clinics where special trucks with nurses and doctors are always in transit.
Price control will be implemented on services after a proper audit has been taken. This
audit will be able to determine those services in which the patients are overcharged. There will
be a maximum price charged on each service so as these services are accessible to all the
patients. When price control is applied, there will be reduced malice within the hospitals and
other medical facilities thus there will be a regular salary structure (Ashrafi, Kelleher &
Kuilboer, 2014). There will be defined salary for each and every individual and also the incomes
for the hospitals and other similar facilities will be regular.
In conclusion, the healthcare system can be a perfect one if it enhances accessibility. The
best way to decrease the cost of drugs is by reducing the taxation on drugs which are imported
and also those that are manufactured locally. Also price controls must be applied to drug
companies. This applies to the overpriced drugs whose actual prices are determined through
research. These drugs companies will be encouraged through reduced taxation on drugs to
develop more medicinal drugs that will help in treatment. In order to reduce administration costs,

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there will be the factor of merging of roles. Individuals who are able to merge roles will be
employed thus the number of employees will reduce.

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