Health care I

The main stressors in today’s healthcare primarily are linked to financial burdens. They include: health care disparity between the rich and poor and between races; the effects of managed care on patients and physicians; persistent problems with the uninsured; and the politics of privatization versus universal health care. There are philosophical differences between those who think health care is just another commodity and should be purchased in a similar fashion as buying a stove or care, and the people who think all humans have a right to medical care, with equal access to whatever medical procedures exist. The former, known as marketists, don’t want to subsidize others who cannot afford the medical commodity. They want to be able to pay for goods and services privately with no government interference and they don’t feel the need to help out strangers, financially. The latter, medicalists, want a different kind of health care, with expenses shared by all. In the United States, marketists seem to prevail where health care is an ordinary article good or service. If you use a certain commodity, you pay. If you don’t pay, you aren’t entitled to use it. However, if one considers all of the government sponsored medical programs available such as Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE and SCHIPS, then the privatization aspect of medical coverage is watered down and the medical coverage cost really is being shared by the masses. Just a few things to think about today.