Describe the two problems associated with U.S. health care.

What will be an ideal response?

Answers will vary. The American system for funding health care has suffered from two major problems. One is that health care is expensive. As of 2017, almost 18 percent of national spending in the United States went to health care, compared with 11 percent in France, 10 percent in Canada, and 8.5 percent in Britain. U.S. health-care costs have been rising for years.?A second problem has been lack of health-care insurance. About 18 percent of the population had no health-care insurance as of 2013, before the Affordable Care Act or ACA was fully implemented. Lack of coverage means that people may put off seeing a physician until it is too late for effective treatment or may be forced into bankruptcy due to large medical bills. One study has estimated that before 2013, twenty thousand people per year died prematurely because they lacked health insurance. (Others dispute these findings.) Still, a substantial body of conservatives believed then and now that the government has no business providing health-care insurance, even if the result is that some people go without coverage.