Many people do not have
health care and if they do it is usually privately funded by an employer. Some
citizens do, however, have government funded health care.
According to Heath Triage, in 2012 47,000,000 American
citizens were uninsured in health care. In fact, the United States of America
is one of the few industrialized countries in the world that does not provide
universal health care to its citizens. However, many countries such as India,
Israel, Japan, Taiwan, Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece,
Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland,
Scotland, Northern Ireland, England, Wales, Canada, Australia, New Zealand,
Brazil, Argentina, Belgium, Portugal and Spain do provide universal health
care. Many people believe the citizens of these countries have free health care
because they pay more taxes for universal health care; however, that is not the
case.
John Green explains in his video the United
States of America spends more tax money per capita than many of the countries
that have universal health care, and most of the people who have health care do
so privately. Only about 28 percent of American citizens receive health care by
government funding. The United States of America, like many other
industrialized countries should be providing universal health care.
According to What makes the United States health
care system so expensive- Introduction by Aston Carroll health
care spending can be explained by wealth. When countries become wealthier, they
begin to spend more on health care. However, the more money that is spent, the
more you exhaust your resources such as the United States.
The picture below depicts the large sums of money that is spent in the United States of America for health care compared to other industrialized countries.
