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 The U.S. Health Care: Anarchy And ApathyWhat follows are believed to be facts that are believed to exist regarding thepresent U.S. Health Care System. This may be why about 80 percent of U.S. citizensunderstandably want our health care system overhauled desperately due to theinadequate health care they receive and access: The U.S. is ranked rather low related to life expectancy and infant mortality.However, the U.S. is ranked number one in the world for spending the most forhealth care- as well as being number one for those with chronic diseases.About 125 million people have such diseases. This is about 70 percent of theMedicare budget that is spent treating these terrible illnesses.Health Care costs are now well over 2 trillion dollars of our gross domestic product. This is three times the amount nearly 20 years ago- and 8 times the amount it wasabout 30 years ago.Most is spent with medical institutions, as far as health expenditures are concerned.About a third of that amount is nothing more than administrative toxic waste thatdoes not involve the restoration of the health of others. This illustrates how absurdthe U.S. Health Care System is presently.Nearly 7000 dollars is spent on every citizen for health care every year, and that,too, is more than anyone else in the world.We have around 50 million citizens without any health insurance, which may causeabout 20 thousand deaths per year.
 
 This includes millions of children without health care, which is added to the plannedor implemented cuts in the government SCHIP program for children, which alonecovers about 7 million kids.Our children.Nearly half of the states in the U.S. are planning on or have made cuts to Medicaid,which covers about 60 million people, and those on Medicaid are in need of thiscoverage is largely due to unemployment.With these Medicaid cuts, over a million people will lose their health care coverageand benefits to a damaging degree.About 70 percent of citizens have some form of health insurance, and the premiumsfor their insurance have increased nearly 90 percent in the past 8 years.About 45 percent of health care is provided by our government- which is predictedto experience a severe financial crisis in the near future with some governmenthealth care programs, it has been reported.About half of all patients do not receive proper treatment to restore their health, ithas been stated. Medical errors desperately need to be reduced as well.Most doctors want a single payer health care system, which would save about 400billion dollars a year- about 20 percent less than what we are paying now. The American College of Physicians, second in size only to the American MedicalAssociation, supports a single payer health care system. The AMA, historically opposed to a single payer health care system, has close to half of its members in favor of this system.Less than a third of all physicians are members of the AMA, according to others. 
 
Our health care we offer citizens is the present system is sort of a hybrid of anational and private health care system that has obviously mutated to a degree thatis incapable of being fully functional due to perhaps copious amounts and levels of individual and legal entities.Health Care must be the priority immediately by the new administration andcongress.Challenges include the 700 billion dollars that have been pledged with the financialbailout that will occur, since the proposed health care plan of the nextadministration is projected to cost over a trillion dollars within the first year or so of the proposed plan to recalibrate health care for all of us in the U.S.Likely, hundreds of billions of dollars that are speculated to be saved with a reformof the country’s health care system.Health policy analysts should not be greatly concerned on the health care corporateshareholders who may be affected by this reform of our health care system that isdesperately needed.It is estimated that the U.S. needs presently tens of thousands more primary carephysicians to fully satisfy the necessities of those members of the public health. This specialty makes possibly less than 100 thousand dollars annually in income,compared with other physician specialties, yet they are and have been thebackbone of the U.S. health care system. The American College of Physicians believes that a patient centered national healthcare workforce policy is needed to address these issues that would ideallyrestructure the payment policies that exist presently with primary care physicians.Further vexing is that it is quite apparent that we have some greedy health carecorporations that take advantage of our health care system.
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