The state should play a vital role in health in several areas at once. It is worth talking not only about financing but also about the direction of development of this most important industry of any state. First, the government should encourage continuous development in pharmacology, surgery, nursing, and other critical health care sectors. Given the current situation with the pandemic, healthcare has become one of the critical funding areas (Jones & Kantarjian, 2019). Several incurable diseases require the development of both drugs, preventive vaccines, and other things. The development of this sector is of great importance for the entire world community and is not closed. Promising developments can attract investors around the world, in connection with which the state should support development in this sector in every possible way.
Secondly, the government should finance personnel training, from the stage of training to the appropriate professional salary of a specialist. Training is an important stage in the training of specialists, and therefore the establishment of this system should take time and require large injections. The health of the entire population of the state depends on the quality of medical education, and therefore the government should be directly interested in this issue. Consequently, the population will access and receive medical care practically free of charge, which will become their legal right. In a state where medical care is free for the population, there will be a high and busy flow of people who want to improve or check their health. The system should be built so that the corresponding tax deductions fully cover the state’s education, salaries, and other organizational expenses for health care. Therefore, utterly free medicine is possible only with a sufficiently high tax rate, but it is in this case that citizens will have the right to medical care and not a special privilege to receive it.
Billionaires, who make up 1 percent of the population, have access to the latest health technologies, while almost half of the world’s inhabitants cannot get primary health care. Financial possibilities dictate such injustice. The United States does not have a single universal health insurance system – it differs for different categories of citizens, but not everyone can count on receiving it. At the same time, the United States remains the first country globally in terms of spending on healthcare (Marcozzi et al., 2018). Consequently, it turns out that with the extremely high costs of the state, not every person can count on the right to receive medical care if there are not enough funds. This fact signals the imperfection of the health care system in the United States. To assume that medical services should be a privilege, even if the workload on doctors is reduced, is impossible for many reasons.
First, people from low-income families will not be able to take care of their health, which will worsen the demographic picture in the country. As a result, the economy will suffer sooner or later, there will not be enough people for jobs, and there will be an acute shortage of population. Secondly, social conflict over wealth will intensify, as the wealthy will receive medical services while the poor will not. As a result of the conflict, armed attacks, riots, robberies based on injustice and poverty are possible. Finally, the confidence of the corresponding part of the population in the government will be undermined, which is why revolutionary moods among citizens are possible. Therefore, receiving medical services in the healthcare sector should be the legal right of every citizen, regardless of status, income, and other personal qualities. However, to allow such a right in the US, a review of the entire system of health care financing is required. The most favorable moment for this reform is the period after the pandemic when the burden on medical institutions will subside, and medical services will not be in a state of high demand.
References
Jones, G., & Kantarjian, H. (2019). The many roads to universal health care in the USA. The Lancet Oncology, 20(10), e601-e605. Web.
Marcozzi, D., Carr, B., Liferidge, A., Baehr, N., & Browne, B. (2018). Trends in the contribution of emergency departments to the provision of hospital-associated health care in the USA. International Journal of Health Services, 48(2), 267-288. Web.