Description
- Explain the difference between Universal Health Coverage and Single Payer.
- What is the difference based on what you have read in the literature?
- Then take a position regarding the policy implications related to enacting either a Single Payer system or adopting a Universal Health System.
Please follow all requirements and answer each question.
- Include introduction and conclusion.
- Please use Peer Reviewed Articles
- APA format is required and each reference must be cited in the paper.
- Use headings to organize the content in your work.
- Please no plagiarism and sources should be 5 years or less.
Explanation & Answer
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Running head: HEALTH SYSTEM
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Healthcare Systems
Institution Affiliation
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HEALTH SYSTEM
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Introduction
Good health is important to both citizens and their country. When citizens have good
health they are able to work and generate income for their families and are therefore able to
support them. This is also profitable for the country as its economic growth rate is increased
as well as its productivity. It is generally the state's responsibility to ensure that its citizen has
access to affordable and quality healthcare (Herzlinger, Richman, & Boxer, 2017). In their
quest to ensure this, the state, therefore, endeavours to come up with different strategies to
achieve this. Such strategies may include enacting policies that ensure that health care costs
are subsidized or that everyone is insured. This also goes a long way in ensuring that people
are not impoverished by the payment of medical bills from their pockets.
Universal Health Coverage
This is basically one of the ways to ensur...