Health Care in the United States of America

Title: Health Care in the United States of America The purpose of my thesis is to analyze the operation of the health care system in the United States of America. The thesis focuses in particular on health care regulation and health insurance. The primary reason for my research is the lack of literature on similar topic in the Czech Republic, which would describe comprehensibly how the system works with respect to regulation. There are various resources on the individual issues of the U.S. health care, but I found it very hard to encounter cumulative information about the whole system, for example for the purposes of understanding the U.S. health care reform, which was brought up several times in the Czech press. Also, with the upcoming reform of public finances in the Czech Republic, health care included, I feel it is necessary to acknowledge how different health care systems work to learn what possible options are there for the improvement of the Czech Republic health care. The thesis is composed of six chapters, each of them dealing with different aspects and elements of the U.S. health care system. The first chapter provides general background for health care and health insurance in the U.S. along with the historical excurse to introduce the basic principles upon which the system has been..