The healthcare system in the US has changes a lot. What would you say is the biggest challenges facing the US health care system today?
The health care system in the US is extremely good. But that makes it expensive.
A doctor orders an expensive test when there is only a very remote chance of it being positive. Let's say that 99% of the people are paying for something that does nothing, but it leads to a cure for 1%. Is that good or bad? Does it justify the extreme cost?
Is it a good health care system because it led to a cure for one out of a hundred people? Or is it a bad system because it costs so much?
That's just one example. But it's fairly typical of a large part of the system.
So if you want cheap, you go somewhere else. If you want good, you go to the US.
To address the actual question, the biggest challenge is actually identifying what the problems are, what the health care system should be, what compromises are acceptable since it's literally impossible to have the highest quality for everyone, and how the heck do you pay for it?
Probably an even bigger challenge is getting everyone to agree on it - especially considering that there are no "right" answers, only opinions and guesses.
Did you know that the US health care system is about 5% of the entire world GDP?
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Goverment.
The U. S. health care industry is perhaps one of the most goverment dominated industry in existence. The Goverment directly or indirectly drives and constrains the industry via countless rules.
1: The largest problem is removing price selection via the effective insurance mandates. This includes both direct mandates like Obamacare and the prior tax subsist mandates.
By removing the only people with any real control from any concern over the financial consequences of their choices. Goverment has guaranteed prices in health care have nowhere to go but up as fast as they can.
There is no reason for people to not choose the Cadillac, and treat it like crap.
2: Complicated web of other rules, liabilities and tax incentives drive the industry to endlessly fragment making it even more impractical for anyone to know what exactly they will be buying, for what price or from whom before its too late. This also facilitates corruption and backroom dealing.
This is of course a very dishonest business practice, but the medical industry is forced into this because a unified system is too big a liability target of the Goverment.
The effect of course is the same as insurance driving costs thou the roof, and frankly this is only tolerated because of insurance.
To fix this mess the Goverment needs to:
A: get out of the insurance subsidy business. Migrate people to Health savings accounts and raise the out of pocket maximum to the size of said account.B: Require price transparency to break down the existing web.(States can do this)
Healthcare in the US is privatized and for profit. The priority is making money, not treating patients.
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No control over pricing. Medicare actually does this the best. They have a “collective” (oh no communist!) of elderly Americans and can dictate terms to insurers and hospitals.
A public option, as in a govt option for health insurance could have done this.Illegal aliens
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