View of Long Term Care System Long-term healthcare is a range of services provided to help the personal care needs of people diagnosed with a chronic disease or disability who cannot care for themselves (). I believe that it is safe to conclude that long-term healthcare services are critical to the wellbeing of older people. In my opinion, United Kingdom has a very competitive long term health care system based on their benefits through the National Health Service. The National Health Service takes an important role by covering nursing care and nursing homes at no cost and without being subject to the means test (). Although health services are free under the National Health Service, social care services are subjected to the means tests. Means test are used …show more content…
Sadly, the United States is favorable to those who are financially stable. Compared to the United States healthcare system, New Kingdom shines bright with all of it beneficial strengths. Like I stated before, nursing care and homes are free of cost; however compared to the United States, even if enrolled in there two programs knows as Medicaid and Medicare, patients are still not fully covered for these services. As explained by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Medicare is the federal program for the elderly and disabled which covers many of the costs of acute medical care but only tangentially covers some long-term care services. And Medicaid is the federal state Health program that covers long-term care but only for people who are (). Based on this information, these program are made for the elderly with restrictions that disable them to receive any type of benefits so there basically useless in cases where the elderly requires these services. The United States fails to protect the elderly compared to the United Kingdom long-term care