The US Federal government should implement a single payer health care system.

As Pro, I will be arguing in favor of a single payer healthcare sysem The parameters for how efficient a healthcare system is access, costs, and benefits. A single payer healthcare system outperforms the healthcare system we have now. Polls indicate that America has a population of 20 million uninsured patients. My opponent is free to proclaim support of an alternative healthcare system due to the lack of competence our current healthcare system possesses. This case will go over why the US requires a more efficient system, how single payer will be implemented, and the empirical results from other countries. C1: America's Healthcare System 1. America spends the most on healthcare, yet acquires the least benefits required to create a stable system: The US spends more money than the top ten biggest spenders on healthcare combined. Japan, China, France, UK, and Germany, Canada, and Brazil all outrank America when it comes to the aspects of health and mortality rates. 30 cents of every dollar spent on medical care in America is wasted, which amounts to $750 billion annually. That is the same amount the Department of Defense estimates we spent on the ENTIRE Iraq War! This $750 billion of waste is made up of inefficient delivery of care and excessive administrative costs, unnecessary , inflated prices, prevention failures, and outright fraud. The largest defrauder of the federal government is the pharmaceutical industry.Thirty-five percent of Americans have difficulty paying their medical bills, and nearly two-thirds of all bankruptcies are linked to inability to pay medical bills due to being uninsured or underinsured. Medical impoverishment is nearly unheard of in wealthy nations, other than the US, because all have some form of national health insurance. 2. Most Americans do not have access to a primary care provider: There are 0.5 physicians per 1,000 people in teh US, but in every other modern nations' physician rate is 1.23. The consequences of such recklessness leads to surgeons not having adequete information on what blood type their patient is, and other essential information which would be crucial to the survival of a patient. 3. Fewer Americans recieve healthcare: Americans do have shorter waits for non-elective surgeries, compared with other developed nations. Only four percent of us wait more than six months, which is considerably less than the Canadians (14 percent) or Britons (15 percent). However, when you consider how many Americans lack access to any health care at all, the wait-time advantage disappears. Nearly one-third of Americans are uninsured or underinsured. Twenty-five percent do not visit a doctor when they're sick, due to the cost. Twenty-three percent can't fill their prescriptions. This is far worse in America than in any of the other countries surveyed. In Canada, only five percent skipped care, and in the UK only three percent. 4. Physicians are paid less for the qualiy of care they bestow on patients:Most other countries reward physicians for good care with financial incentives. For example, in the UK, 95 percent of physicians are paid, at least in part, according to the quality of care they deliver. In Australia, it's 72 percent. The US scores lower than anyone else, at 30 percent. C2: Single Payer Healthcare System A single payer healthcare systems replace private insurance with public insurance. Instead of individuals having to directly pay private insurers, the public sector will assure an adequete system for doctors. A single payer healthcare sytem still allows the capablility of doctors and hospitals to be private, but hospitals and practices will recieve payment from public insurances rather than private insurances. One can see the benefits of such a system by attaining results from every other modern nation that has already implemented this system. 1. Cost-efficiency: America allocates 8,600 dollars per patient. Switzerland allocates 6,700 dollars per patient. Denmark allocates 6,700 dollars per patient. Canada allocates 6,700 dollars per patient. UK allocates 3,500 dollars per patient. Germany allocates 3,500 dollars per patient. Spain allocates 3,500 dollars per patient. France allocates 3,500 dollars per patient. Italy allocates 3,500 dollars per patient. Japan allocates 3,500 dollars per patient. The numbers make the claim for themselves. The federal government is effectivly depleting money by not implementing a single payer healthcare system. 2. Access to healthcare has been dettered by capitalistic greed:The average American spends 1,400 dollars on an MRI scan. The average European spends only 200 dollars on an MRI scan. 3. Rankings: World Health Organization ranked all country health care systems by their access, quality, and costs. 1. France 2. Italy 3. San Marino 4. Andorra 5. Malta 6. Singapore 7. Spain 8. Oman 9. Austria 10. Japan The majority of the countries listed above are practitioners of a single payer healthcare system. Yet, the wealthiest country in the world with a GDP of 17.43 trillion dollars was ranked at 37th below Costa Rica and the Dominica. Our absurd system must not be held with impunity. 4. Implementation: American Health Security Act: Establishes the American Health Security Standards Board to: (1) develop policies, procedures, guidelines and requirements to carry out this Act; (2) establish uniform reporting requirements and quality performance standards; (3) provide for an American Health Security Advisory Council and an Advisory Committee on Health Professional Education; and (4) establish a national health security budget specifying the total federal and state expenditures to be made for covered health care services. Establishes the American Health Security Quality Council to: (1) review and evaluate practice guidelines, standards of quality, performance measures, and medical review criteria; and (2) develop minimum competence criteria. Establishes the Office of Primary Care and Prevention Research within the Office of the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Creates the American Health Security Trust Fund and appropriates to it specified tax liabilities and current health program receipts, including premium assistance credit amounts under PPACA. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose on individuals: (1) a health care income tax, and (2) an income tax surcharge on amounts of modified adjusted gross income exceeding $1 million. Imposes an excise tax on securities transactions and allows an income tax credit for such taxes. Conclusion: A single payer healthcare system allows the American people to be capable of accessing many advantages such as faster waiting lines, consistancy of physicians, and better care at a cheaper cost. The United States of America is the wealthiest country in the world. America has a GDP of 17.43 trillion dollars. America's assets combined are equivilant to 225 trillion dollars, yet we are last on WHO when it comes to our mortality rates. America spends more on healthcare than the top ten biggest spenders combined, yet we recieve more disadvantages than advantages. A single payer structure would not only be beneficial towards the quality of life for the American people, but it will beneift the overall affectiveness of the distribution of tax payer money into the right ideas. Works Cited: http://www.photius.com... http://finance.yahoo.com... https://www.congress.gov... http://articles.mercola.com...