not medicine, but prices are killing the patients

Though the United States does offer a wide gamete of advanced and specialty medical services, this does not necessitate offering “quality health services.” If the blog is asking whether the US health care system delivers quality health services, a person must address what “quality health services” include. The US Health Care system (USHCS) offers top-notch medical procedures and offers them without a patient waitlist. In addition the system is well advanced with innovative medical technologies. The USHCS does not offer these services at prices which are practical; these prices continue to increase at exorbitant rates. Both articles alluded to this, particularly” Health care's big money wasters” published on CNN.com. In this article PricewaterhouseCooper’s Health Research Institute gave many startling statistics on how much money is spent each year on unnecessary tests, early hospital discharge leading to quick remittance, administrative costs due to insurance claim forms, and patients receiving grand amounts of primary care in the ER each year. The second article expounded upon the USHCS over-spending. “You Get What You Pay For” article mentioned the inflating rates of health care costs in the United States and explained in addition to unnecessary tests, many unnecessary procedures are performed for patients. The USHCS also chooses to administer expensive medications without sufficient evidence of their medical benefit.
The USHCS offers great, comprehensive health care but it does not offer it at affordable rates for the population. This is a big area where the health care system could use some reform. We have discussed in the past how the USHCS is run much like a business in this country where insurance companies make large yearly profits and people are dropped from coverage on minor, ambiguous claims. For being a business, it would never make the Forbes 500 with as much money that is wasted or lost in the system.
In my opinion, quality health care would be more affordable, not with exuberant prices or administering procedures which are unproven in their effectiveness for the price tag associated. This system overall is not bad, it does offer good medical care, just the prices are killing the patients.