Reluctant To Complain: Quality And Affordability Of Healthcare

Reluctant to Complain Your Name Subject and Section Professor’s Name April 19, 2019 Improving the quality and affordability of healthcare is not a one-way process. It does not end with the government funding the construction of more hospitals or giving discounts for medicines, but rather, with the citizens giving feedback about the things that they need. However, one of the main problems with our current healthcare system is that a lot of the citizens are reluctant to complain about the status of the services that they receive. In a recent study conducted in the United Kingdom, it was shown that about “56% of people aged over 65 who experienced a problem did not complain because of worries about how it might impact future treatment” (BBC.com, 2015). This is also similar to the current status of healthcare in the United States where a lot of the patients refuse to complain about the healthcare system. However, the difference is that the situation arising in the United States has been mainly brought about by differences in nationality (i.e., immigrants...