American health care vs. Spain health care

1. American Healthcare vs. Spanish Healthcare
! Both America and Spain have problems with their healthcare systems. In
America, healthcare is provided through many independent organizations. You can
purchase it through the government or a personʼs occupation may pay for it as a benefit
of the job. Healthcare is usually never free in America unless you get it through your job
and even then, a person is technically working for that healthcare. However in Spain, it
usually is free or low cost for anyone who pays social security, which is mostly required
for citizens anyway. A comparison between the two is that we both have two types of
health plans provided to the countryʼs citizens. America has Medicare and Medicaid and
Spain has Adeslas and Sanitas. The ability to get medicines from pharmacies is very
different between the two countries. In Spain, a large number of medicines do not
require a prescription. In America, almost all good medicines require a prescription to
prevent drug abuse. The fact that America has better conditions involving prescription
use shows that we have better government policies to protect our citizens health and
well being. One other difference is that in Spain people usually only have to pay forty
percent of their prescription cost. In America unless you have a policy that covers the
specific medicine, you have to pay the full cost or at least more than forty percent of it.
Megan Darmanin Tuesday, March 8, 2011 9:28:07 AM ET 34:15:9e:1c:2c:70