Access To Care And Resource Allocation

Name:Address:Date:The senator:Address:RE: IMPLEMENTATION OF SINGLE PAYER HEALTHCARE SYSTEMCost is the major challenge to the American healthcare system. The U.S. has the highest health expenditure in the world, amounting to 16.9% of the total GDP. That translates to approximately $3.6 trillion, or about $11,000 per person. Switzerland had the second highest expenditure, of 12.2. Germany, France, and Sweden spent 11.2%, 11.2%, and 11.0% respectively. At 9.3 percent, New Zealand and Australia spend approximately half as much as the United States on healthcare (Tikkanen & Abrams, 2020). Nevertheless, despite the high expenditure, the United States’ healthcare system lags behind other developed countries in terms of cost while countries like Australia manage universal healthcare. The secret to Australian success in the provision of healthcare is its Medicare provided through a single-payer universal health care. Single-payer healthcare system is a popular approach to managing healthcare costs in most developed countries. The system is the backbone of two healthcare models; the Beveridge and National Health Service. The former is a single payer-single provider system. That is, the government insures all the citizens and legal residents through taxes. The healthcare facilities are also owned by the state (Liu & Brook,