Pros And Cons Of The United States Health Care System

Taking this class in Nottingham would allow me to observe a completely different health care system since England’s health care is provided by the government through the National Health System (NHS) with additional options to purchase private health care insurance. On the contrary, the United States health care is a private sector business and requires individuals to buy their own insurance. Since there needs to be major improvements in the United States health care system, it would be interesting to observe the pros and cons of a government health care system. This class in Nottingham has several opportunities that Luther does not offer, such as the clinic where they exchange used needles for clean needles. This is a really unusual clinic since there is controversy on whether this helps addicts or if it just increases the use of drugs. It shows that this health care system looks into prevention rather than treating the problem. As in the American system which treats the disease. Personally, I think that prevention measures are as important as treating. I am fascinated in alternative medicince impacts on

In nursing school we are tought the importance of quality care, but overall when compared to other countries the United States ranked last in patient safety and several other categories and were the highest health care spending country in the world according to “The UK Health Care System” by Josh Chang, Felix Peysakhovich, Weimin Wang, Jin Zhu. There are pros and cons to every health care system. As a future nurse, I want the United States to improve in the areas in which they ranked the lowset. One way to implement improvements is to observe other health care systems that are working. The United Kingdoms health care system is working since they are ranked second out of seven industialied countries WHAT CATAGORY (Chang, p.