Healthcare in the United States: A Comparative Approach

For an enlightening PSA on this matter, please click here.

For a printable version of this hypertext, please click here.

In modern America we have a serious crisis. An incredibly large number of Americans are without health insurance, and even fewer are able to afford quality health insurance so that they can full take advantage of the benefits that they deserve.
Healthcare is not a want, healthcare is a need and a right [5]. Our current insurance based system of healthcare relies on the individual to pay for his or her medical care using insurance companies who will actively work to avoid paying for medical costs in order to make money.
Healthcare, while a profitable industry, should not be viewed as a business pursuit, treating people as sources of income rather than human beings deserving of adequate medical treatment and relatively pain free lives. Socialized medicine provides a viable alternative.
It has been implemented in numerous industrialized and developing nations. The system, of course, has its flaws, but in reviewing the literature I have noticed that the harms such a system creates a relatively small, especially when the system is implemented correctly, and all care is taken in doing so.
I therefore see socialized medicine as the ideal towards which the current American medical system should work towards so that we can provide accessible and affordable healthcare to the citizens of what should be the greatest nation in the world.