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Universal Health Care: Prosperity, Setbacks, and the Future of American Healthcare, Essays (university) of Introduction to Public Administration

The reasons why america has prospered or faced setbacks in terms of healthcare, the concept of universal healthcare, its benefits, and the challenges in implementing it. It also explores alternative solutions to address the rising healthcare costs and the increasing number of uninsured americans.

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  • What are some potential solutions to address the rising cost of healthcare in America?
  • What are the reasons for the high cost of healthcare in America?
  • What is universal healthcare and how could it benefit Americans?

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Alex Gilliam
2/23/18
Dr. Ike
Health Care and Public Administration
In the last few decades there have been numerous public policy points in our society that
have a huge effect on the country in its entirety. They are reasons why America has either
prospered or has dealt with set-backs like recessions. Citizen’s health and healthcare stands out
amongst the most discussed of public policy topics. Health care is something that affects state
and local governments for many reasons.
Above all else, health care is protection or care for people that are sick or injured. Each
country has their own sort of public or private health care. There are a lot of different types of
health care organizations that are offered to people all over the world. Some of these agencies
include: the provider group, the health maintenance group, and a proposal that combines aspects
from both the provider group and the health maintenance group. The most essential sort of health
care insurance is a universal health plan. Universal health care is the thing that will in the end
spare Americans a lot of cash and it will likewise ensure that each American is insured. The
amount of uninsured American’s has risen above 40 million. Medicinal services is getting to be
excessively expensive and we can take out inefficient deficiencies. A centralized national
database can be created to simplify work for doctors, and medical professionals will only have to
worry about the patients and not who will be paying for the medication and/or treatment for the
patient. There are many American’s who do not like the idea of universal health care and refuse
to get it. America is known for having the best medical physicians and people are afraid that
there will be drastic changes if we all share one unified health care plan. Likewise, if the
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Alex Gilliam 2/23/ Dr. Ike Health Care and Public Administration In the last few decades there have been numerous public policy points in our society that have a huge effect on the country in its entirety. They are reasons why America has either prospered or has dealt with set-backs like recessions. Citizen’s health and healthcare stands out amongst the most discussed of public policy topics. Health care is something that affects state and local governments for many reasons. Above all else, health care is protection or care for people that are sick or injured. Each country has their own sort of public or private health care. There are a lot of different types of health care organizations that are offered to people all over the world. Some of these agencies include: the provider group, the health maintenance group, and a proposal that combines aspects from both the provider group and the health maintenance group. The most essential sort of health care insurance is a universal health plan. Universal health care is the thing that will in the end spare Americans a lot of cash and it will likewise ensure that each American is insured. The amount of uninsured American’s has risen above 40 million. Medicinal services is getting to be excessively expensive and we can take out inefficient deficiencies. A centralized national database can be created to simplify work for doctors, and medical professionals will only have to worry about the patients and not who will be paying for the medication and/or treatment for the patient. There are many American’s who do not like the idea of universal health care and refuse to get it. America is known for having the best medical physicians and people are afraid that there will be drastic changes if we all share one unified health care plan. Likewise, if the

protection were to diminish in the universal healthcare plans at that point duties should soar and in this manner the cash that is being spared will wind up being utilized for charges. As indicated by "Should the Government Provide Free Universal Healthcare for All Americans?" Joe Messerli says that "The administration must pay for this some way or another" (Messerli). I agree with this on the grounds that the administration will require funds to support this universal health care plan. In a Universal health care plan the patient can be in charge of some cost at the time of the use yet most of the cost is secured by necessary insurance and duty incomes. To give medicinal services administrations to the whole nation requires a great deal of financing that different governments secure by tax collection and furthermore perhaps from premiums for some of mandatory health care coverage expected of all nationals.

In spite of the fact that, the health care services in the United States are the most costly on the planet, we are as yet not more advantageous than different nations. There are a couple of reasons in the matter of why getting human services is troublesome, particularly for low-pay families. The cost, for a certain something, is what will influence the United States to have a long haul financial awkwardness. The quantity of uninsured Americans is expanding increasingly every year in light of the fact that the expenses for social insurance are so costly. These uninsured Americans are putting their lives in peril by doing this in light of the fact that without health care coverage nowadays, doctor's facilities and specialists can't offer the right solutions for individuals. This is an issue that will keep on getting more terrible in America. For instance, in "How Health Care Can Save or Sink America", Peter Orszag says that "in the course of recent years, cost increments in the national Medicare and Medicaid programs have generally paralleled fetched increments in whatever remains of the social insurance framework" (Orszag 42). As per what Orszag is stating, the cost of wellbeing isn't just constrained to the government.

specialists, and pharmaceutical organizations' (Orszag 43). Something else that should be possible is through direct proportioning. Along these lines the legislature can pick which administrations are open to individuals. The following strategy is "buyer coordinated social insurance" (Orszag 43), this gives the clients control over their human services and their financial plans. Additionally, this strategy ought to diminish the client's expenses and also the expenses of human services itself. The last strategy is the "supplier esteem approach" (Orszag 44). This approach is the most ideal one in light of the fact that rather than the patients setting off to the specialist and putting pressure on them to lower costs, the supplier esteem strategy goes specifically to the specialist and gives them the data they have to roll out improvements essential do diminish the expenses of human services. That way the cost of the social insurance depends on the administration that was given, instead of the amount that was utilized. The reason to build the sum a medication that can be utilized contrasted with medicines all through the whole United States.

The Health Care Legislation looked to address changed breaks in protection scope. The Health Care Legislation tended to these breaks in three distinct classifications. The most critical of the three is an "assortment of basic measures to push Medicare to lead the route toward the supplier esteem model of medicinal services" (Orszag 46). This is the best endeavor to spare cash since it sanctions the supplier esteem strategy that was said previously, gives the costs in light of the administration gave. The following classification is accepting private protection. These organizations must hold their costs down to remain underneath the edge of expenses or they would confront a 40% assessment on the abundance cost. In this way they would wind up being less expensive than human services. The third and last class incorporates "limit diminishments in Medicare repayments" (Orszag 45). This lessens the installments made to the

healing centers for treating uninsured patients; it additionally diminishes the installments to private insurance agencies which will be essential over the long haul for America. Taking a gander at human services through another viewpoint, one can perceive how it has progressed toward becoming what it is today by individuals before. These individuals I am talking about were previous presidents that endeavored to influence one wellbeing to tend to all. In Peter Moore's "Leader Obama Has a Health Care Plan for America" he talks about how Franklin Roosevelt endeavored to influence wellbeing to mind some portion of the Social Security framework, however it didn't occur. Harry Truman likewise strove for a similar thing however it didn't occur for him either. Medicaid and Medicare were made when President Lyndon B. Johnson marked revisions to the Social Security Act on July 30, 1965. Quickly, Medicare is medical coverage that pays for doctor's facility and restorative look after the elderly and debilitated Americans; Medicaid is wellbeing and medicinal administrations for low wage families that have couple of assets. Every one of these endeavors appeared to be worthless however it is the thing that influenced the following individual to endeavor to roll out an improvement in the human services framework. There are numerous elective answers for the human services issues. These arrangements could enhance the medicinal services in the United States. It is essential to have choices because of the way that the United States has one of the most exceedingly bad medicinal services frameworks on the planet. One elective answer for the human services issue is that there ought to be social insurance rebates or impetuses with no administration association. This would be rebates for individuals who can't and don't work they would be given drug at a marked down cost. Additionally for individuals who are out in the work power ought to be given work rebates. Drug stores could give away pharmaceutical for nothing, for individuals who have a low pay. This will profit extraordinarily and as long as they work they would be marked down intensely.

At the point when President Obama battled in 2008 for the presidential decision, he proposed a thought of widespread social insurance. Individuals took a turn on the name and named it Obama mind. As indicated by "Great Health for America" Obama had three fundamental objectives: "control of the private protection advertise, an open choice of a state run medical coverage plan and more impulse on bosses and people to buy scope" (Gorsky 49). This had encountered a great deal of contention in America since individuals said it was helped them to remember socialism. Obama has "set these approach objectives and left them with congressional boards of trustees to work out the detail while currently pitching his arrangement to voters," Gorsky (52) says. This is the manner by which Obama figured out how to pass a changed social insurance charge in 2010. Obama ensured that he didn't take after any of Clinton's mix-ups on wellbeing change.

I chose medicinal services as my open arrangement theme for some reasons. The most imperative reason being is that I trust that it is the answer for all the human services issues all or generally Americans. It gives protection to those of low salary who can't bear the cost of it and for the individuals who don't have protection. It additionally influences the lives of the general population inside the framework to manage to a lesser extent a problem. These individuals incorporate specialists, the insurance agencies, patients who right now utilize some type of human services, and so on. The political impacts of this taking influence would affect the general population in the United States significantly. The issue is that individuals can't bear the cost of protection and that there are numerous individuals without medical coverage do to the cost.

I do trust that universal health care is the best choice for wiping out the medicinal services emergency in the United States. It could be something that Americans can bear the cost

of and in any event it is some type of protection looked at having none by any stretch of the imagination. In spite of the fact that this may not occur whenever sooner rather than later, the possibility that we would one day be able to have a universal arrangement that regardless of the wage of a family, everybody will have protection. Ideally Americans will acknowledge how essential having human services is for an area. Different nations have a general social insurance arrange for that guarantees that the majority of their subjects have human services, for what reason can't America do a similar thing. If there should arise an occurrence of a crisis where one is taken to a doctor's facility and that individual doesn't have a type of social insurance they can't be dealt with for whatever happens to be the issue. It is absurd that individuals need to put their lives in threat since they can't manage the cost of restorative scope.

Works Cited Martin, Gorsky. “Good Health for America”. History Today. 60:2. February 2010: 49-52.History Reference Center. Web. January 5, 2012.

Messerli, Joe. “Should the Government Provide Free Universal Healthcare For AllAmericans?”. Balanced Politics. Nov. 27, 2007, www.balancedpolitics.org. Web. January 4, 2012. Moore, Peter. “President Obama Has a Health Plan for America (But Is It Good For You?)”. Men’s Health. 24:8. October 2009: 130-166. Health Source-Consumer Edition. Web.January 5, 2012

Orszag, Peter R. “How Health Care Can Save or Sink America.” Foreign Affairs. 90:4. July/August 2011: 42-57. History Reference Center. Web. January 5, 2012.