Comparison of American health care and the Chinese

Comparison of American health care and the Chinese
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Comparison of American Health Care and the Chinese
Abstract
The United States of America has without doubt spent a lot of money and other resources in ensuring they offer the best health care services than any other nation in the world. However when you compare the standard of health in united states and the other developed states it won`t appear in the top especially in cases of infant mortality rate and the low levels of life expectancy. The United States is not among the top nations that have a very sophisticated form of universal health services but it spends the most amount of money in the health sector.
In theyear 2010 the American parliamentary congress passed a new bill labeled, regulatory reform mostly touched on insurance on the health sector. After the long debate that went down in march the bill Passed and was later passed to law by the president. However it is known the new law is not going to face any implementation up to the year 2015.
On the other hand China has an in depth history of practice in medicine and health dating back to two millenniums ago. The first western medical practices were brought in to the country by missionaries from Asia around 19th century. The practice of medicine in the west has always continued alongside Chinese medicine. Since 1949 the health policy of china has improved over the years thus leading to better hygiene, improved sanitation and most important preventions of diseases both in the urban and rural areas. The new campaigns and mobilization of people in China ensured that health care reached even the marginalized rural society.
Introduction
In 1980s during the revolution in culture there was instability in health care which was caused by poor politics at the time. This led to attacks by epidemic illnesses. During this time there were severe consequences which had resulted from the bad politics and Cultural Revolution. There was decreased access to rural health care which greatly affected the rural population. Many years later the Chinese health insurance system issues medical insurance majorly depending on whether the insured is a rural dweller or urban dweller.
There insurance cover comes in different levels like county level and rural levels tiers getting bigger grant and subsidized taxes from the government than urban level tiers. Nevertheless, the big cities still have international level facilities that offer first class medical attention and westernized hospitals. This facilities are however very expensive and majorly out of reach to the bigger Chinese population which is comprised of the common citizen. Additionally there is high rate of corruption in some of these facilities which is majorly caused by the poor earnings of the doctors who work on these big hospitals (Gerald, 2012).
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