Sunday, April 27, 2014

Brasfield 6-10

I enjoyed how the book compared a bunch of different health care systems to each other from other countries. To see how other countries run when it comes to health care, can help understand health care systems as a whole. It also can show strengths and weakness of different health care system strategies. The countries plan I was interested by most was Germany. Just like ours, some health care is paid for by taxes, but I like that there is a standard amount that everyone pays, unless they can't afford it then it is covered by welfare. Throughout the course we have asked "Is health care a right?" I think it is in the sense that if someone cannot afford a health care policy, they should not be punished by having no health care at all. Budgeting will always be the center of the problems because distributing money fairly is hard, but denying certain people health care is just cruel. I think we should take ideas from other health plans and incorporate it in our own in a way that provides everyone coverage without changing too much of the money budgeting, if not even reducing costs in certain areas. Overall, it'll take a very long time to find the perfect and ideal health care system, but I'm hoping with all the knowledge out there that one day we will figure it all out.

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