The UK has spent
billions of pounds on its national health care programme, NHS, every year. The
British people love the NHS, the Brexit campaign promised that the UK would use
the money saved from joining the EU to fund the NHS and gained so much support
and won the referendum eventually. However the government expenditure on the
NHS is increasing over time and the issue of aging population will make the
government even harder to afford the NHS.
It is really a
difficult question to make the public health care right for the entire
population. Firstly, it has a hard moral issue. It is the most difficult
situation for anyone to make a decision about other people's fate and health
issue matters people's fate. Secondly, to what extent should the government
support individuals' health issue is another question. Governments should of
course help the disadvantaged group; however, it does not mean governments
should take care everything about the disadvantaged group, as this could make
the disadvantaged group lose their ambitions and incentives to improve their
own skills and social status. Thirdly, governments have constraints to provide
a health care scheme covering everything. Governments may not have sufficient
numbers of doctors, and/or money, and/or many other factors. Fourthly, how can
we tell whether a health care scheme is efficient or not. Efficiency is a
measure of inputs and outputs; however, in the matter of health, it is really
difficult to measure the outputs, especially the value of outputs.
Overall, a public
health care scheme is something that governments have to spend lots of money
but find it difficult to measure the efficiency of the scheme.
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