America is one of the few nations of the world with adequate health care which we have top notch facilities and even our rural areas can have access to a hospital or urgent care center. All this comes at a cost however, a literal expensive cost. Not just millions of dollars each year, or even billions are spent to take care of our country, it takes trillions. That can be an incomprehensible number but to put it to perspective it is a one with twelve zeros at the end. Where does that money come from? Well it comes from us, the citizens of the USA. In 2014 alone 3 trillion dollars was spent on health care and health care providers. That is $9523 per person in America. Even private organizations that help the sick and injured have a price that …show more content…
The truth is, everyone may have access to health care in America, but not everyone may afford it, we may have the best health care providers, but it’s nothing if you can’t even use it and if you do, it’s costing your neighbors their paycheck because you can’t afford. 33 million Americans didn’t even have health care because it was too expensive in 2014. To put in a closer perspective of how much it costs you or me or the neighbors next door an average cost of a visit to the ER is about $1233. That’s almost half the salary of the average income an American brings in a month. That was just the visit to the ER. The ambulances and the resources being used ( because this isn’t just about money ) have to be taken into …show more content…
Average of 7.6 percent can be in employee costs alone in healthcare. That brings us to human capital, land, and entrepreneurship. Land includes storage facilities and human capital to take care of it, and the entrepreneurs to govern and manage the workers. Hospitals and hospice care takes up a good majority of what land is being used. The costs for the average built hospital that rooms 200 beds is around $160 million per year. That is where all the tax money comes in. Federal funded. Back to land, there is debate to say that land being used is the protocol of district service is available. Regions that certain ambulances provide for. Land is the one of the most important reasons why someone can or can not afford health care beyond their own income ability. Richer regions afford better healthcare, poorer communities either don’t use the health care provided or when they do they rack up the largest bills because their condition is terrible. It is a sad stereotype that can be proven true more often than not that poorer communities have less healthier people than a rich community, which means that they ( the rich ) don’t really visit often. Combine all