Compare And Contrast The Health Care System And The United Kingdom

United States and United Kingdom Health Care Systems
The United States health care system has changed drastically within the last two generations, and continues to evolve. Factors that influence these changes are; growth in the population including the increase in elderly people in the population and an increase in health care technologies, and growth of allied health care professions and rising cost of individual and family health care insurances. In the United Kingdom, people started coming in for work but eventually the jobs were taken over by machine. People began experiencing exploitation, long working hours or unemployment, and poverty. The country had poor sewage systems and increased in disease. These epidemics caught the governments attention. The Public health act developed in 1848, following the second Public Health Act of 1875. After World War I, the National Health Service decided that a health care system needed to be created that had free medical treatment for everyone. The NHS had several difficulties, but over the years new technologies developed, which created better treatment for its people.
The structure of The United States health care systems are Medicare and Medicaid; these are the largest public health insurance programs. AICGS explains that
The United States offers fully-private systems, where the United Kingdom offers a socialized health care system. In the United Kingdom everyone has full availability to health care, regardless of how much money they have, although it is paid through taxation. “A central tax completely funds the NHS, which equates to an annual contribution of roughly $2,950 for every British citizen” (Dougherty). There is also no fee at the point of service whereas in the United States there could be. The United Kingdom has one of the best health care systems in the world and the health expenditures per capita is