Healthcare Is Common Place These Days

Feb 19
08:43

2009

Paul Abbey

Paul Abbey

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Healthcare is the general term used for the entire sphere of prevention,Healthcare Is Common Place These Days Articles treatment and cure of sickness and disease using the facilities of medical professionals and resources. Although The World Health Organization would like to see the expression extended to include all individuals whether an individual or whole populations. Collectively, this provision of medical facilities would be known as a healthcare system.

Before the term health-care became commonplace, English-speakers referred to medicine or to the health sector and spoke of the treatment and prevention of illness and disease. Around the world today, most countries have a system in place to ensure that everyone receives healthcare irrespective of their social standing or financial situation. Established in 1948, The National Health Service in the United Kingdom was the world's first universal health care system provided by government.

In Italy, they have a system that works by making everyone pay into a government funded insurance scheme which The World Health Organization consider the second best healthcare system in the world. Canada and Australia have both begun similar systems and have been running since almost twenty and the 1970’s respectively both going by the name of Medicare. Even so, these systems of health care where everyone benefits from a administration based service contrast starkly with those in America where almost all healthcare is paid for through the provision of insurance schemes or privately. Individuals who work in health care include all professionals whose job it is to preserve life, treat and cure sickness and try to improve the health of people. The collective expression for this is the health care industry but the word industry may not necessarily be the best one to use.

Worldwide, over recent decades, there has been a huge increase in the sum of money spent on health care and it is now one of the fastest growing sectors in every developed country with an average cost of ten percent of the gross domestic product. The USA has seen some of the largest rises and the figures in 2006 are expected to be the same as 2003 with over 15 percent of GDP - it is presently the largest in the world but the increase by 2016 is anticipated to be almost twenty percent.

currently in the The United States over one hundred eighty million citizens are looking for healthcare and it will be no surprise to learn that it is top of all concerns for those in and seeking employment. Many large companies in The United States are feeling the effects of these rises in healthcare provision and an extreme case was where the car giant General Motors was seriously considering bankruptcy because of it. In this instance some hard Union negotiations, compromises and the closing down of their finance arm GMAC meant this action wasn’t required.

Health care has become an extremely fundamental issue to Americans one which employers must address to a work force which demands better healthcare benefits. Maybe the situation needs to be looked at from a different angle, one in which people are encouraged to stay fit and healthy as societies in general see a decline in the health of its populations.