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This 4 page paper looks at healthcare delivery in the United States and discusses whether or not this can be classified as a healthcare system. The paper starts with the definition of system and then applies this to the provision of US healthcare. The bibliography cites 4 sources.
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provision. When considering healthcare it can be argued that many other countries have a healthcare system, that is a single of limited way in which healthcare is provided, this may
include those countries, such as the UK, that have universal healthcare systems. Healthcare in the US has been documented as being the most expensive in the world by the OECD
(2000). This is in terms off overall cost as well as the cost per capital spent on healthcare, which equated to $4,178 per capital in 1998 (OECD, 2000). With this
level of expenditure it may also be expected that the country also has the best system of healthcare. However, when considering healthcare in the US it may be argued that
this is not necessarily a system. The term system can be argued as coming for the Greek sunistanai, to combine and sun and histani meaning set up and establish.
System can be defined as a "an assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complex or unitary whole", and healthcare can be defined as "1. The field concerned
with the maintenance or restoration of the health of the body or mind. 2. Any of the procedures or methods employed in this field" (The American Heritage Dictionary, 2006). From
this it appears that there is a need for a healthcare system, to be defined as a combination of different parts to create a whole in order to deliver the
maintenance or restoration of health. Part of the problem in the US may be the way in which healthcare is fragmented. There
are different approaches and access reroutes to healthcare in the USA, there are patients who access healthcare on a pay as you go basis, these may be individuals with a
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