Abstract
The given research paper represents the self-sufficient research containing a profound analysis of the policy of health care system for veterans in the USA. It covers a profound data analysis, and the key points of the research are represented in the structural analysis of the found information about the health care system, facilities and targeted programs for veterans in the USA. The research paper touches upon the essence of health care services for veterans and describes the targeted programs providing the veterans with a qualitative health care in the USA. The paper is well-organized, due to which the theme is fully covered. The essay consists of 10 pages; 6 peer-reviewed sources were used while writing the given research paper.
Introduction
Health care system is a set of medical, social and economic, political and other measures directed at public health care. The public health care system is considered to be a social system because its basic elements are people and their communications. The public health care services compose an open social and economic system functioning for the satisfaction of the population’s needs in medical sanitary help, depending on energy, information, materials arriving from the outside and adapting to the changes in environment. All features of typical social system, main of which - interdependence and interaction of all elements, and also the independence defined by the organizational independence of environment are inherent in it.
“Thus, public health is an index of the development of knowledge, of idealism, of unselfishness, of self restraint and of a greater degree of personal and community maturity. It is expressed in the responsibility aroused in an individual concerning matters that relate to the family and to community well-being. We can say in all truth that the advances in public health in America have been and are an accurate index of our advancing civilization in all its aspects and in all its connotations” (Morone: 2008).
The US health care system is one of the largest branches of the American economy in which huge resources are concentrated. The medical industry makes one seventh part of the whole national economy in which over 10 million people are occupied.
Policy making in the sphere of health care makes multilateral impact on the American society. The policy covers essential interests in the sphere of health care practically in all layers, groups and social classes; it is in the center of a political life of the country. The private medical system of insurance exists within the state legislation which defines the incentives and directions of its development, provides the state control. The tax policy of the state substantially stimulates the formation of private system of medical insurance and, consequently, it can be considered to be “semi-state”.
Main Body
In the twenty-first century veterans health services develop in essentially new conditions having both negative and progressive character in many countries of the world. The mentality of the population changes, the level of legal consciousness, expectations and requirements of the citizens concerning veterans’ health care services raises.
These global changes in …