Should the U.S. have a national healthcare system like they do in other countries, like Canada, where they pay everything?
...hospitals charge smaller payers more in order to make up for uncompensated costs from the uninsured. Then the fees of the large insurance plans are reduced. A final weakness is some HMO’s offer cash bonuses to doctors who order fewer diagnostic tests. Cynthia Herdrich was involved in an incident where her HMO offered bonuses to doctors. Cynthia went to Carle Clinic in Bloomington, Illinois with severe abdominal pain. She was told by her doctor that she had no choice but to wait eight days for an ultra sound test at another clinic. In the meantime, on two other visits her doctor misdiagnosed her inflamed mass in Cynthia’s abdomen as a urinary tract infection. While waiting the diagnostic test, her appendix ruptured requiring emergency surgery. Cynthia sued her doctor and later found out her HMO offered cash bonuses to doctors who order fewer diagnostic tests. Unlike U.S., the Canadian health care system doesn’t have as many weaknesses. Canada’s healthcare system has various strengths that outweigh the U.S. The Canadian health care system plan is comprehensive and universal. Their plan is known as a "single payer" system. The single payer system’s funding for medical care is provided by the provincial governments through taxes. One strength of the system is that patients are allowed to choose among physicians, which have a private practice that is based on a fee-for-service. A second strength is hospitals are independent, nonprofit institutions overseen by boards of trustees. A fourth strength of Canada’s healthcare system is no one may be denied services just because of their income, age, or health status. A fifth strength is benefits are the same for all citizens. A sixth strength is the plan relies extensively on primary care physicians. In Canada fifty-one percent of physicians are in primary care. Only one-third of physicians are primary care in the US. A seventh strength of Canada’s healthcare system is that providers and insurers do not need to mar...