America’s Healthcare System Ranks The Lowest Among Industrialized Nations

The U.S. doesn’t get its money’s worth when it comes to healthcare, according to recent statistics. The Commonwealth Fund released a report earlier this month on America’s ranking in the world healthcare system — and it wasn’t good.

According to the report, residents of the United States receive the poorest quality of care, yet pay the most for it, among six of the top industrialized nations, including Germany, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. The findings were based on measures including quality, access, efficiency, equity, and outcomes of healthcare. Germany took the overall first place ranking, followed by Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.

While the other five nations on the list provide universal healthcare, the U.S., with its unorganized mixture of employer-funded care, private insurance, and government programs, leaves nearly 48 million throughout the country with no insurance whatsoever. Ominously, the Fund also linked lack of insurance with poorer quality of care in another report released this month.

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Healthcare Situations in Contemporary America

Chiropractic care -seems like a rocket science, a biological term right? It’s rather the term used for defining the study of manipulating with the body parts like back, head and the various other muscles which when manipulated in a certain fashion have the feature of relieving us from the pain. With the lazy life styles that we are leading, we are in all probabilities prone to all sorts of ergonomic, orthopedic and especially chiropractic pains. Simultaneously the need for chiropractors (experts who master the art of chiropractic care) has also risen into significance.

When was the last time you made that quick jump in your backyard or reacted to a thing thrown at you with a quick reflex? Isn’t it hard to recollect? It’s very agonizing to know that half of the next generation is already fighting obesity and the remaining half is busy in curing the diseases occurred due to the irresponsible behavior in their youth. So the amount of money that’s going down the drain is invisible to the naked eye but is definitely eating into our pockets.

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Why Do College Students Accumulate So Much Debt?

It is well known that college education is expensive. However, apart from the tuition and the other educational expenses, it has been found that most of the students spend lavishly on unnecessary and superficial things that go on to burden most of the students with huge debts. The economic realities of the costs of a college education were highlighted in “Business Week” magazine under the title, “Thirty & Broke, the Real Price of a College Education Today,” datelined November 14, 2005. The findings of this article reveal that indebtedness is growing among the students over the years. For instance, in 1992-93, 24.8 students earning degree at a public college graduated with debt.

In 2003-2004, 58 percent students from a public college graduated with debt. The median amount of these indebted students in 1992-93 was $8,226, while the same in 2003-2004 was $14,671. The figures, both for the percentage of students that were in debt and the median amount, were considerably higher for students studying in private college (ebsco.com). The question to be asked is “”Why do college students accumulate so much debt during college and how does it impact their future?” Student debt is the effect with a large number of consequences, while the student debt itself could be the result of a large number of causes. We shall in this paper examine the causes leading to student debt, and also briefly discuss the impact of student debt. In any causal relationship, a cause leads to an effect, which is itself the cause of further effect.

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