Universal Healthcare: 10 Barriers To Success

Universal healthcare for all Americans is an admirable goal but unattainable at present. The issues and special interests of healthcare in the United States obstruct a successful outcome.

Current solutions do not take a holistic approach that addresses the issues of access to care, cost, quality, and continuity of care. The United States provides some of the highest and some of the lowest healthcare quality of all industrialized countries. But U.S. healthcare costs are almost twice those in other countries. Studying a history of healthcare can give us insight how to cover the 50 million uninsured Americans.

Although Germany established the first national system of compulsory sickness insurance in 1883, it was not until the 1930