Question

Suppose an extraterrestrial anthropologist asks you what type of health system you would build in the United States, if you could start from scratch. You need to 1) describe the health care system and how it would be financed. 2) describe where care would be received and how care would be rationed. 3) discuss production efficiency, efficiency in consumption, and equitable redistribution. How and why is your proposed system better than the current health care system in the United States?

Answer 1

1) Healthcare coverage is provided through a combination of private health insurance and public health coverage (e.g., Medicare, Medicaid). The United States does not have a universal healthcare program, unlike most other developed countries. So I will start with some universal healthcare programs.

Health care is paid for by government programs (such as Medicare and Medicaid), private health insurance plans (usually through employers), and the person's own funds (out-of-pocket).

2) Rationing means that you are limited in what you are allowed to purchase. ... Healthcare rationing is used by health insurers, the government, and individuals to save money. Some would even argue healthcare rationing supports the greater good.

Health care services are inherently scarce: money for services is not unlimited, facilities for delivering services are finite, and health care professionals are limited in time, geography, skills and capacities, and so on.

3) Production efficiency:

The concept of productive efficiency refers to the maximisation of health outcome for a given cost, or the minimisation of cost for a given outcome. ... In health care, productive efficiency enables assessment of the relative value for money of interventions with directly comparable outcomes.

Efficiency in consumption:

Health care efficiency is a comparison of delivery system outputs, such as physician visits, relative value units, or health outcomes, with inputs like cost, time, or material. ... One difficulty in creating a generalized efficiency measure is comparability of outputs.

Equitable redistribution:

Equitable distribution of healthcare means 'universal access to health services irrespective of the ability to pay' Lack of equitable distribution means that some people do not even get a decent basic minimum of care while some populations have a concentrated health services.

My proposed system consists with medicare programs which will definetly benefits the people of US citizens, so i can definetly say that my health care is better than the current health care system.