US Health Care Systems Strengths
Tiara McDaniel
American Intercontinental University
HCM630-1205D-01
January 27, 2013

Introduction
There is an opinion amid several Americans that regardless of coverage, price and other difficulties in the health care system, the eminence of health care in the United States is more superior than it is anyplace else in the world and there is a possibility that it may be threatened by restructuring of health care by President Obama. In addition to that, an article on Thomason Reuters, states that fifty-five percent of US citizens that was surveyed last year said claimed that American patients in American are provided with better care that people in other countries, but only forty-five percent of the participants stated that the US has the nation’s best health care system. (Reuters, 2008) Even though most Americans prodigiously back government tactics to raise the coverage and decrease the cost of health care, recent statistical evidence shows that sixty-three percent of American are afraid that there will be a decline in the quality of care that are given if the government were to make sure every citizen had health coverage. (Sack and Connelly, 2009) An additional study showed that eighty-one percent of Americans have the same worries. (Connolly and Cohen, 2009)
Before one can make an educated assessment about the nature of care in one health system as opposed to another, it is essential to look at a varied array of indicators. Because health care involves a complex array of activities, and because there are many holes in our knowledge of the relative quality in many areas, it is impossible to use a single measure as a meaningful proxy. Measures that reflect multiple dimensions of quality have a certain appeal as performance indicators for policy-makers, although more specific or narrow measures have the advantage of being more