Can Americans Adopt a Universal Health Care System?
doctors available to immediately treat the woman (read the full article here). A second woman who was pregnant died for the same reasons after having been refused by 20 hospitals that stated they were full. Such incidences could be indicative of serious cracks in Japan’s Universal Health Care system. Japanese culture focuses heavily on using non-invasive procedures as much as possible, and this in turn, reduces their cost of health care. Survey data indicates that Japanese surgeons perform less than one quarter the number of operations in comparison to their American counterparts. Common procedures in the United States, such as caesarean sections, are performed half as often in Japan. The prevalence of surgeries in the United States could be indicative of a mixture of American culture (focus on fast and painless) and the fear doctors have of being sued for negligence or malpractice. In order to reduce health care costs in the United States, a cultural shift away from surgical procedure
cited by the hospitals that they were either full, or did not have doctors available to immediately treat the woman (read the full article here). A second woman who was pregnant died for the same reasons after having been refused by 20 hospitals that stated they were full. Such incidences could be indicative of serious cracks in Japan’s Universal Health Care system. Japanese culture focuses heavily on using non-invasive procedures as much as possible, and this in turn, reduces their cost of health care. Survey data indicates that Japanese surgeons perform less than one quarter the number of operations in comparison to their American counterparts. Common procedures in the United States, such as caesarean sections, are performed half as often in Japan. The prevalence of surgeries in the United States could be indicative of a mixture of American culture (focus on fast and painless) and the fear doctors have of being sued for negligence or malpractice. In order to reduce health care costs
