A widely discussed and debated issue regarding the United States economy is our healthcare system. The healthcare system in the United States is not public, meaning that states do not offer free or affordable healthcare services. In Canada, France and Great Britain, for example, the government finances health care through taxes. The United States, on the other hand, has gone the other way and shifted the burden of healthcare spending onto individual consumers, as well as employers and insurers. In July 2006 the issue was transparency: should the American people know the price of the healthcare they receive and the results that doctors and hospitals obtain? The Wall Street Journal article revealed that “US hospitals, most of them nonprofit, charged uninsured patients prices that far exceeded those charged to insured patients. Bankrupting their uninsured patients." (p. B1) The most expensive healthcare system in the world is the American one. I will talk about health insurance in the United States, healthcare in other countries, Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill and my solution to this problem.Health care in the United States is poorly structured.Insurance companies only think about how to save money and not how to spend it.When you apply for health insurance, the companies will look through your application and records clinics as if it were a murder investigation. They will try to find any possible flaw in your claim just so you don't have to pay your medical bill. Health insurance companies have an extremely long list of medical conditions that they will deny you they will refuse if the intervention is considered experimental,...... halfway......on, which consists not in making a lot of money, but in helping. people fight their health problems and save lives. This is why we should have a socialized/publicly funded healthcare system. To ensure everyone receives proper medical care, stop denying people treatment because they don't have insurance. Works Cited Herzlinger, Regina. Who killed healthcare? America's $2 trillion medical problem and consumer-driven care. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2007. Print.Lucette, Lagnado. “Anatomy of a Hospital Bill,” Wall Street Journal, September 21, 2004, p.B1. Print.Moore, Michael, narr. Sick. Dog Eat Dog Film Weinstein Company, 2007. DVD.Palmer, Donald. “Utilitarianism”, does the center hold? An introduction to Western philosophy. 5th ed. 264-271. Print.Unknown. “American Medical Association”, The New York Times, June 15, 2009, p.2. Press.