Reform US Health

Universal Health Care is the constitutional right of the citizen to have access to good health care. The most amazing of things that comes up is that the US happens to be the only industrial nation that does not guarantee this particular right to its citizens.
The Universal Healthcare System that is followed in the other 28 industrialized nations of the world covers equal health care for all the citizens regardless of their income level or employment status. It becomes a constitutional right of the individual to be able to get it.

The advent of the Universal Health Care System:

The first country to be a part of this scheme was Germany way back in the year 1883. It was followed by Britain in the year 1911 by passing the bill called the National Insurance Act which covered most employed persons and their dependents. This was a continuous scheme if they had contributed in it for five years at least.

The Period after Second World War:
The period after the Second World War so many countries wanting to enter the arena and provide deliberate health coverage to their citizens. This was in the spirit of making health care available to all strata’s of society. The National Health Service was created in the year 1948 and the agreement was signed by most countries except the US which did not include the right to health in Article 25 as what it signed.

Comparison of different countries:
In several countries such as US, Italy, Nordic countries, and Spain the government is greatly involved in the health care system. The citizens are not delivered individual health insurance because they have bought an insurance policy but because they are a citizen of the country.
Some other countries follow the access to health care based on the participatory role played by the citizens by paying for the coverage and the health care facilities.
On the other hand, countries like Switzerland and the Netherlands operate on the basis of regulated private insurance policies but the insurance companies are not run on a profit basis.
Different approaches to Universal Health care:
Most countries have tried to use different approaches to universal health care but the crux of it remains that the government will participate in the health care program and set minimum mandatory standards that have to be followed. This will allow them to cover the largest possible population in the health care schemes.

Legislation and taxation:
The way these countries were able to ensure that the citizens did have access to the required health care was by way of passing the right legislations and seeing that they were enforced. The way they went about funding it was by the method of different kind of taxation schemes adopted.
These were keeping in mind the different payment options for the patients and the way the doctors and medical workforce practiced medicine and collected their reimbursement.
Universal Health care has certainly come a long way since it was implemented for the first time in Germany in the 1880s.