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Amercian Healthcare

Abstract

I first compared the healthcare strategies of the United States and other countries. The countries I looked at are Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom. I found information on this objective through the internet and Wolfgram Memorial library. The second objective I looked at our healthcare results compared to Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom. The results I researched are life expectancy at birth, life expectancy at the age of 65 and infant morality. I found the information on the U.S. Census Bureau web site. The third and final objective I identified the problems of the rising expenditures and how to correct them so everyone can be insured. I found the information on the internet, the medical practice web site and Jona's medical journal, which I located through medline's database and retrieved it in Wolfgram Memorial library.

Introduction

My research topic is covering the United States healthcare system. The United States spends more of the GDP on healthcare then any other industrialized country in the world. Because of this one would think we provide one of the top universal healthcare plans for all our citizens without health insurance. Furthermore, our overall health system performance is 37 out of 191 (U.S. Census Bureau. 2003). Obviously 37 out of 191 is horrible especially because of what we invest. This problem affects a massive amount of Americans. Approximately 40 million Americans are without health insurance and because of the increasing expenditures the numbers of uninsured are only on the rise (McIntosh, Michael 2002). The United States healthcare system should be just as good or better then any other countries because of the money we invest. Every industrialized nation has some kind of basic healthcare system for all of their citizens (McIntosh, Michael 2002). My goal is to find out why we cannot at least provide some kind of basic coverage, as do other countries.
The United States has many factors to...