U.S. Healthcare Draft

In addition to the opposing Republican views on universal healthcare, the American Medical Association insists that the ACA suits the American population better for low-income residents. The ACA provides affordable healthcare to patients with lower incomes and therefore wants to protect their patients from increased taxes and instead “seeks to enhance patient choice and encourage patients to be conscious of health insurance costs, while also maintaining innovation in the private sector” (McCanne, 2008). They believe the single-payer system would prevent better healthcare and decrease the quality of healthcare to its patients. Lastly, insurance and pharmaceutical companies are also against a single-payer healthcare system because they believe it could increase “wholesale bureaucratization of the health care system by the federal government”(Galea, 2017). The pharmaceutical companies are extremely involved in the U.S. healthcare because they sell drugs and treatments to patients with different insurers and consequently, based on their experience with customers, want to ensure that everyone can have access to acquiring necessary medications. As the different groups continue to assert their claims on the best healthcare method, Americans are starting to assess how other countries manage their healthcare system.