US Is Not Number 1

Source: Church Leaders

The economic principle I’m exploring is “Institutions are the “rules of the game” that influence choices

 My research question to help me study the economic principle is “How has scarcity in the medical field harmed and helped healthcare in American society?”

 The United States Health System Falls Short demonstrates this economic principle because it shows that America spends a lot of time and money on healthcare but it does not meet the requirements for most Americans due to expenses in medicine and research.

In the article, it talks about how the United States spends far more on health care than other first-world big-income countries. The United states spending levels on health has even risen steadily over the past three decades, yet the United States has poorer overall health compared to many other countries. Some may say since life expectancy has increased that healthcare must have gotten better but in reality it has been worsening over the past few years, specifically in areas affected heavily by the opioid crisis.

 The U.S. healthcare system has always gallen short in being able to deliver reliable and accessible health care to everyone, specifically the poor. The lower class, or the poor, have little to no access to getting healthcare, or at least good health care. This means that the poor have inadequate prevention methods, delayed diagnoses, safety problems, and incomplete treatments. In the article, the United States ranks:

• 9th on timeliness 
• 10th on administrative efficiency
• Last on access and has the worst performance compared to all of the other countries, 

This is because many U.S. have reported difficulty in helping patients due to the coverage they have, especially poorer patients. Also, the fact that there are such huge disparities between the wealthy Americans and poor Americans coverage. The poorer side had financial barriers that made them skip doctors visits, miss treatments, or not take a prescription because of high cost.

 The U.S. low performance usually it because of time wasted on discussing money like insurance claims and billing. Life saving treatments and drugs are already hard to come by because of how hard it is to obtain and make, these complications just make it harder for regular people to receive treatment.