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U.S. Healthcare System The Ethics Term Paper

While patients are currently being treated unethically by the U.S. system that values patients by their ability to pay, a 2004 study showed that patients receiving health care in a variety of nations with nationalized services were generally satisfied with their health care (Wensing and Szecsenyi, 2004). According to a 2004 ABC News poll, Americans were not satisfied with the current health care system. In fact, sixty-two percent favored a national health care system, primarily because of the current system's substandard ethics -- rising costs (Lange, 2004). Far from universal, these costs do not affect each income group in the same way. Unemployed and low-income workers are the most likely to be uninsured, and therefore, charged skyrocketing rates for health care services (Smith, 2008). Forced to refrain from obtaining needed services, accruing debt and poor credit because of unpaid bills, or seeking services through illegal and unsafe means, uninsured Americans cannot avoid the unethical treatment they receive because of the current United States health care system.

Tired of an unethical system that over-charges the poor, both doctors and patients are in favor of a national health care system. Based on research from other countries with national systems, opinions...

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Lange, Gary. Health Care pains: Growing Health Care Concerns Fuel Cautious Support

For Change. (2004). Retrieved May 3, 2008, from: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/U.S./healthcare031020_poll.html

US Doctors Support Universal Healthcare -- Survey. (2008). Retrieved May 3, 2008, from: http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN31432035
Single Payer Frequently Asked Questions. (n.d.). Reterived May 3, 2008, from: http://www.pnhp.org/facts/singlepayer_faq.php#income
Smith, Dean G. The Uninsured in the U.S. Healthcare System. (2008). Retrieved May 3, 2008, from: http://www.entrepreneur.com/tradejournals/article/177719964.html
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