S.B. Tyler English 1020-059 5 April 2011 The Cost of Health care and the People Who Need It It is beneficial economically for the United States to support the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The United States spends approximately $2 trillion on health care cost and over 40 million Americans do not have health insurance. If the Health care Reform bill passes, not only will all of the United States citizens have health care but the deficit will decrease a great amount. Health care reform has been a major issue in the United States for centuries.
He also asked the congress for cash-strapped local governments to hire more teachers and firemen. This affected American teachers and firemen because they had better opportunities to pursue their careers. In March 2010 President Obama created a National health care reform system for uninsured Americans. This system allows them to buy into health care plans with added subsidies and tax incentives but it also prevents the insurance companies from denying coverage. Economist believes that this system will do nothing to control cost but the budget office believes the bill will reduce the cost over a ten-year period.
Bonus payments will be given to those doctors and hospitals that provide good quality care. | CON: With an increased population of individuals receiving healthcare from the government, there will be longer wait times, and potential decline in the quality of care given by doctors. | PRO: The PPACA tax promotes the general welfare because it makes health care more widely available and affordable. | CON: Congress is requiring that every person purchase health insurance or face penalties. | PRO: The health reform includes the largest health care tax cut in history for middle class families, helping to make insurance much more affordable for millions of families.
An increasing number of Americans have opted not to take advantage of job-based health insurance because they just can’t afford it. I believe that every citizen should have adequate health coverage whether it is Universal Healthcare or National Health Insurance. If the large insurance premiums are no longer a factor and employers can increase salaries for everyone in this country, we would all be able to afford the coverage that should be a right for us. It could be a flat fee based on your family situation or just so much of your tax dollars goes towards a national insurance fund. A major argument against a nationalized health care system is that it will be inefficient.
They had predicted a loss for the new facility within the budget but they were not able to predict the economic downturn. The new facility is located in an area where individuals have better insurance and younger population base so, the speculation is the revenue generated would be more profitable, unlike the facilities in Seattle that have a higher population on Medicare and Medicaid. (Facts and Figures,
People have to look at the current health care arena before we go on criticizing the health care reform. The health care reform might be a little pricy, but it out wait the current one that we have. In the long run, the health care reform will eliminate $2.5 trillion of federal spending, enough to boost the GDP by 18%. On top of that, everyone would be insured through the health care reform. It would basically fund itself, because everyone would be participating, it would cost less, due to the mass resources combined.
It isn’t right for Obama Care to force everyone to get health insurance but it is the most logically because insurance companies cannot deny anyone so that everyone can be covered. There are about 32 million people who don't have health insurance. If something happens, and they have to go to the hospital, they often just don't pay the bill, and the hospital has to cover it. To cover the costs, hospitals raise the prices of health care for everyone and if the prices are raised then the more a hospital patient that’s covered by
HEALTHCARE PARADIGM by Alissa Watkins “If you can't afford a doctor, go to an airport - you'll get a free x-ray and a breast exam, and; if you mention Al Qaeda, you'll get a free colonoscopy. "-UNKNOWN Now this is obviously a cute tongue in cheek reference to people who may be uninsured, however, for many Americans this is very real. According to the CDC, approximately 15% of all Americans or (approx. 46.5 million) are not insured. The people that are insured, still do not seem to be getting the care they need and a lot of them end up in a hospital- no closer to any answers.
The only way for hospitals are able to collect the profits is by performing the transplant operation. The current profits that go uncollected by the donor do not disappear but yet are distributed between the surgeon doctor and the hospital (Tabarrok 91). Many questions have been raised as to where we would acquire the funds for the incentives, but studies have been done that show that even with an additional 500 kidney donors which would equal to 1000 kidneys gained. These saving would give $30 million to our health care system
How can we as a people be content for so long to allow an economic sector that has absorbed an increasing portion of our incomes roughly 20% of our gross domestic product (and steadily increasing ) to operate without any meaningful price transparency. We need to demand a change in healthcare, a change that bennefits all american people not just the aerican government. There needs to be a drastic change of the supply side of healthcare, people need to have a public way, maybe websites, to compare prices and the quality of