Global Health Care Issues

Humanity chose to negotiate health care based on money.

Global Disparities of Quality Medical Care:

Health care quality and availability can significantly vary among nations. Major factors are high costs to retain qualified medical professionals, equipment and facilities.

Medical Costs:

The cost of medical insurance is often determined in part by age, gender, pre-existing medical conditions and statistical profile.

Humans are encouraged to decline their ideal jobs, higher salaries and preferred job locations to protect current medical coverage for themselves and their families. Humans are even forced to factor in their marital status such as being single, legally separated or divorced in qualifying for affordable medical coverage. Marital status should never be a relevant factor in administering health care for a patient. Humanity is being reminded how it has already surpassed the trust and utility of money, debt and compensation systems as means to administer medicine and as tools of future prosperity.

When any one person cannot afford to pay for needed medical procedures, there is competition to determine which side will yield to transfer their money or services to the other. It is often the case that the patient will lose this competition as the medical facility has the power to gather needed personnel, equipment and facilities to serve the patient. This is not to judge the medical facility as they truly wish to serve the patient. However, they have expenses to pay. So in the end, they must focus on the group of  patients who have ample insurance or funds to pay for their procedures. It makes sense, from a highest ideal system based on money, that those able to pay are given every available chance for treatment. It is noteworthy that medical facilities are required to provide emergency medical care regardless of ability to pay.

Cost for medical personnel and supplies inhibit progressive medical care availability for every global citizen by stagnating access for all. Some medical costs are derived from research and development, labor, supply, delivery, storage, treatment and administrative operations. Each often includes additional costs for liability insurance, risk management and other various supports. Then a predetermined profit is added based on market conditions. These factors are revealed not to judge any medical entity but to expose a sample of factors that contributes to the ending health care liability battle of a patient. Accordingly, the problem with the current system is that at least one global citizen has been and will continue to be deprived of full medical treatment when needed due to insufficient financial resources.

Drug companies strive for respectable compensation to bring much needed drugs to the global marketplace.  However, the motivation for financial compensation creates vulnerabilities to act in ways that violates their highest ideals. Some vulnerabilities include compromising scientific principles in order to skew research results and hiding or deflating knowledge of harmful drug side effects. Financial compensation does not appear to move medical companies closer to achieving and sustaining their highest ideals.

Un-promoted Alternative Treatments:

Ultimately drugs or medical procedures may be the strategy of choice. Nevertheless, patients are often uninformed regarding herbal and other alternative, holistic home treatments as initial treatments as profits would be at risk.  The industry cannot patent and profit from prescribing fruits, vegetables and herbs commonly found in nature. Some doctors are obligated to prescribe expensive drugs as treatments to their patients, for acid reflux condition as an example. Yet there is increasing feedback by global citizens searching for relief that consuming apple cider vinegar before their meals often lessens or removes acid reflux symptoms by providing more, not less, acid needed for improved digestion. There is speculation that a culture among some doctors exist to discourage volunteering this form of information as a possible initial remedy for mild acid reflux cases while they are encouraged or perhaps obligated to prescribe only “medicine” by definition, which comes at a much higher price. How can humans someday declare their full humanity while competitive human psyche conditions similar to this continue? (The author is not a medical doctor and advises readers to conduct their own research and to consult their doctor regarding the appropriateness of this and any other medical option.)

Financial Stress Versus Patient Healing:

When some patients without health insurance receive treatments in hospitals, clinics, wellness locations and other medical facilities, they wonder how they will manage the enormous cost while simultaneously trying to heal their bodies.

Medical Demand Outlook:

With projected increases among aging populations, the need for qualified and caring medical professionals will continue to grow. Patient need is projected to exceed medical supply.

Global Cooperation Deficiencies:

The lack of sufficient global cooperation ensures that governments continue to negotiate, renegotiate, revisit and experiment with health care policies and philosophies substandard to global highest ideals. As a default, current health care policy attempts to manage financially rewarded, competition-based models and will not sustain the people for thousands of years.

Humanity chose to negotiate health care based on money.

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