I was particularly inspired by the quote mentioned in Taiwan’s video, “The track of the previous cart is the teacher of the following cart.” Taiwan, once a poor country, is now a rich and industrialize country with a good health care system because they learned from the mistakes of other countries. They manage to come from half its citizen with no coverage to universal health care. They used current systems, like Japan and Germany, to their advantage. Even though Taiwan must borrow from banks to pay their providers, at least they are making a huge step to better health care. No medical system is perfect.
Switzerland’s health care system, once similar to the US, has reformed itself to have universal health care with high quality. This just says... US can reform to the better too. I believe if US used Taiwan’s method of learning from other countries, 16% of GDP will actually be used efficiently for health care.
I found it shocking that US is the world’s most expensive medical system, yet ranks 37th in quality. This raises many questions. What is limiting the US to reform the health care system? If other countries can make people join and pay, why can’t US? I think US’s most favorite word is profit. The ending of the videos brings up questions to possible solutions that may be dreadful for insurance companies and providers. Can US make insurance companies except everyone, can US force everyone to purchase insurance, and will doctors and hospitals accept standards costs? If doctors and insurance companies aren’t so concerned with profit, patients won’t be so concerned with bills leading them to bankruptcy. If other countries can spend a lot less on their medical system, I think US can use the money spent on their health care system to gather methods from all countries and make changes according to American culture to provide health care for all, or at least not to become bankrupt from medical bills.
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