American Health Care System

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.