The Paradoxical Underachievement of the U. S. Health Care System

What do you think explains the paradoxical underachievement of the U.S. health care system in terms of money spent per capita and failure to achieve the population outcomes of nations that spend much less per capita on health care?

The paradoxical underachievement of the U.S. Health Care System is that U.S. is spending a lot of money on health care. Democrats are having a hard time to obtain people’s support when it comes to health care reform. Most of the people believe that we need major reform but most of them do not want to give their support in order for it to happen. People want government to raise taxes on wealthy and rich, but do not consider them as being one of them. Not many Americans believe President Obama will keep his promise to not deepen the deficit with a health care reform. Most Americans, mainly the seniors, believe that the government’s plan is threatening.

Second, the next paradoxical underachievement of the U.S. Heath Care System is that U.S. is the capitalist country. U.S. historically has been excellent in leadership regarding development and growth. Then again, both sectors government and private always focused only on generating capital as much as they could. In spite of this, U.S. failed to keep up with communities that invest in social and cultural developments. For that reason, it has negatively impacted the economic and social status of some Americans. The underlying issue, between socialism and capitalism is apprehension when it comes to economic equality and government position in ensuring that everyone receives fair share of resources. In addition, in the U.S. capitalism is responsible for uneven allocation of power and wealth including other forms of social utilization of those that are less fortunate. The purpose of capitalism is basically to hearten economic development by letting inequality even though sometimes it may have opposite results.

On the other hand, socialism is about dividing the resources from the wealthy to poor. With this approach everyone would have the same access to health care and equal opportunity. Some of socialist countries that use this approach are Canada, Scandinavian countries and China. For example, in China the government has control almost over everything, but in return the living standard in China is great. The life style is more relaxed then the life in the U.S. Socialism in those countries absolutely means equal distribution and equality among citizens. By taking from the rich and presenting to the poor, socialism creates prosperity by reducing the social, economic, and political inequalities that exist within capitalist societies.