Socialized Healthcare

Hailee Rogers,Yailin Velazquez, Debora Garcia,

Jassmine Velasquez
What Is Socialized Healthcare?
 What Is Socialized Healthcare?

Socialized Healthcare - term used to describe and discuss systems of

universal healthcare
Universal Healthcare - addresses a healthcare system which provides
healthcare and financial protection to every citizen of a specific country.
 Universal Healthcare's Purpose

Provide a specified health care package which will be of benefit to every

member of the society
Improve the aim of providing financial risk protection
Improves health outcomes
Improves access to health services
People dont pay for it
 Universal Healthcare
What's needed to achieve it?
A strong, efficient, well-run health system
Affordability
Ability of essential medicines and technologies
Well trained, motivated health workers
Actions to address social determining factors

How is this financed?

The system would collect large pools of
prepaid funds
Pay through taxations, and/or obligatory
assigned contributions for health insurance
 Universal Healthcare
Is everyone covered?
Governments have to use a general budget income
to meet the health cost of all people
It ensures access to health facilities, workers and
medicines
They need to track their progress in providing
access not just across the national population but
within different groups.
 Healthcare In The United States
Healthcare is provided by many distinct organization
Facilities are owned and operated by private sector business
In 2014, 48 percent of U.S. health care spending came from private funds, with 28
percent coming from households and 20 percent coming from private businesses
About 15% percent of people are uninsured in the US, which means a lot of people don't
care that they need.
Also have medicare and we spent 536 billion dollars on medicare in 2013
Medicaid
Covers the less fortunate people in society
Cost 414 billion dollars in 2011
Veterans Health administration which is run by the government
Countries
With
Universal
Healthcare
 Universal Healthcare In Canada
Government pays 70%of the cost for health care
Private spending the 30% of the cost
Most of it is for drugs, dentist and optometry (not covered by the government)
Canadians by supplemental private insurance through their jobs to cover the
cost of things not covered by their Medicare
Most hospitals are publicly funded
Required to operate under a fixed budget
One of the ways Canada controls its healthcare spending
Makes them a single payer system but not a socialized medicine system
 Universal Healthcare In England

Its a socialized Healthcare

System covers everyone (except for visitors and illegal immigrants)
All kind of care
Free once they pay taxes
Dentistry and out patient drugs (co-pay over seven and a half pounds)
Inpatient drugs are still free
Only 6% of prescription are actually full price in the UK
Public expenditures cover 80% of all healthcare spending
Three quarters come from general taxes and most is paid by payroll tax
Over-the-counter drugs & other medical products account for another 10%
The rest is private hospitals for elective procedures
 Pros of Universal Healthcare

Equal access to health care

Improves public health
Less paperwork
Boost the economy
Gives the opportunity of affordability for all
Prevention increase for a greater population
 Cons of Universal Healthcare

Long wait time

Leads to a socialist state
Medical abuse of the system
Takes time to get there
Increases government debt
Shortage of doctors in the long run
Increase in taxes not actually free
For or Against Socialized Healthcare?
 Discussion
Do you feel that the most vulnerable people
are being covered enough? why?
 Discussion
Isn't it too ambitious? Are countries
succeeding in implementing this?
 Discussion
Why do you think there is a push for universal
healthcare now?
 Discussion
Isnt it better to push for small, incremental
reforms rather than attempting the bigger
jump to universal coverage?
 Discussion
Are you for or against Socialized Healthcare?
why?
Sources

https://fee.org/articles/17-arguments-against-socialized-medicine/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMNuxPByEW0
http://www.pbs.org/program/money-medicine/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialized_medicine
http://www.who.int/healthsystems/topics/financing/uhc_qa/en/
http://www.healthpaconline.net/rekindling/Q-A.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN-MkRcOJjY
http://thefederalist.com/2016/02/19/why-socialized-health-care-is-unjust/
https://www.formosapost.com/pros-and-cons-of-universal-health-care/
https://truecostblog.com/2009/08/09/countries-with-universal-healthcare-by-date/