The proposed universal healthcare is not beneficial to the United States and it will not work. The author of this report engaged in constant research to determine the structure, advantages and disadvantages of the universal healthcare system in various nations where it is applied and to analyzing the contribution of the subject healthcare system to the citizen and the nations in general in order to determine how effective the universal healthcare system can be in the United States.
The report was written to analyze the effectiveness of the universal healthcare system in Sweden – a good example of a nation that has benefited significantly from the system. In the report, the author has described the forces that have enhanced the effectiveness of the system in Sweden and the reasons as to why he suggests that the system is of no significance in the United States.
The paper presents a comparison of Sweden’s health indicators following as a result of establishment and application of universal healthcare system to all citizens and the United States’ health indicators -a nation where the universal healthcare has not been established yet, but whose current healthcare system is characterized by specialist healthcare providers and technological initiatives. The paper was written to support the author’s argument that the universal healthcare system is not beneficial in the United States and despite the proposal, debate and the reforms on healthcare the system will not work in the United States.
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Considering several health indicators, the health care system in the United State is almost on the rear among other industrialized States in the world. Although the United States are recognized for the advanced innovative medical technology, the state records the highest child mortality, actually eight deaths per a thousand children below the age of five years in the year 2002, and a short life expectancy- 77. 3 years in the year 2002 among the industrialized nations. (WHO 2004a)
Moreover, it is suggested that the United States holds the best medical specialist and advanced technology. (Guthrie 2002, D6). However, most of the people do not have access to the technology and specialist. The questions that remain in the minds of most Americans and other concerned people is how can a country that spends the greater percentage of its gross domestic product on healthcare as compared to other countries in the world have the healthcare inaccessibility?
Based on statistics, only 84. 73% of United State’s citizens had access to healthcare in 2003 (U. S. Census Bureau 2004). This was far much lower compared with Sweden’s where universal healthcare was available for all citizens as in the same year 2003, 100% of the citizens in Sweden had access to universal healthcare, the life expectancy in Sweden is one of the highest in the world as it was 80. 3 years in the year 2002, and the child mortality rate as per the 2004 estimates was 3.5 death per thousand children at the age below five years as at the year 2002 (WHO 2004c), hence among the lowest in the world.
With the comparison of the two states, researchers and others concerned people have raised the debate on how the universal healthcare system can be beneficial in the United States, more certain with the knowledge that the United States has the most competent medical practitioners and is the home of the innovative technology.