Monday, 18 June 2018

How to make health care correct?



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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