Healthcare Access the Health of Any Single

Healthcare Access

The health of any single person is the most important and most limiting factor about that person's ability to complete physical tasks and live a useful and purposeful life. Healthcare is a term that is widely used but never discussed in how it can best be accessed. The purpose of this essay is to identify and describe a useful plan that helps solve the dilemma of people acquiring a proper and useful source of healthcare. The ethical component of the situation will also be introduced to help demonstrate how practical this plan can be.

To many, healthcare is often associated with doctors, nurses, hospitals, drugs and surgery. It seems that more people are sick or are diseased with some sort of affliction than ever before. Tanner (2008) made the point that "a closer look shows that nearly all health care systems worldwide are wrestling with problems of rising costs and lack of access to care. There is no single international model for national health care, of course. Countries vary dramatically in the degree of central control, regulation, and cost sharing they impose, and in the role of private insurance. Still, overall trends from national health care systems around the world suggest many countries promise universal coverage but ration care or have long waiting lists for treatment."

The problem is easy to understand once it the conflict of interest is exposed. In the health care system that operates today, profits are most important and healthy people represent missed opportunities to make a financial gain. In other words, sick people make doctors and health care agencies millions of dollars each year. One should not place their healthcare in the hands of these people without investigating other options.

Access to healthcare should therefore not always seen as a benefit in all cases. As professional medicine kills more people each year than murder it is time to find a new approach to this problem. Lowes (2012) remarked that thousands and thousands of new cases are introduced each year denoting the very poor success rate that this industry is experiencing these days.

A plan to combat this is to approach this problem with a new attitude of self-discovery and independence. Each individual should begin to take responsibility for their own health care. The mammoth healthcare system is too blunt of an instrument for individual precision. Taking steps to combat sickness as opposed to treating it when it arrives needs to be adopted by everyone and in every way.