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In the United States, health care is one of the top three public concerns. Two of the biggest issues with health care are how to reduce the costs and how to create a system with equity throughout each process, which has led to a need for a shift in health care priorities within the United States. Due to the complex health care system in the United States, changing any aspect of the system has always been a slow and difficult process. In 2016, the National Academy of Medicine created a plan to establish and guide the health care priorities. The established list highlights a set of issues in need of more attention, which include early childhood and maternal health, health costs, infectious disease threats, mental health, and addiction. By focusing on these issues, it would help to empower people and the communities, as well as connecting care. The shift in health care priorities also must help combat how the health disparities have affected minority groups but especially the black community. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic also highlighted the racial health inequalities within the health care system. As the health care priorities shift within the United States, the impact of health inequalities has highlighted the vulnerable populations like, older adults, children, and minority groups. It is important that the priority shifts away from individuals with insurance and those who have the ability to always pay for health care in order to move away from the inequalities in this system. It is important for the government to establish and follow strategies that will help to address the more serious issues withing the health care system. Both the state government and the federal government must work together to correct the inequalities within the health care system. The government has created policies in the past to address some of the changing priorities but many times they have faced pushback from others in government or even state level government. For instance, the Affordable Care Act of 2010 has been challenged many times at the federal and state level, which is why it is important for the different levels of government to work together to get these policies passed in a timely manner to have the greatest impact of the shift of health priorities. In the United States, the only way to have the health care system changed or updated is for the policymakers to make the changes through their laws and policies, so it is important for them to look into each issue as a matter of health care equality. The government has another issue when deciding to focus on different priorities because it is difficult to determine where the resources are going to come from to establish new policies because many times these resources are going to have to be reduced in other areas to focus on the shift in health care priorities. However the citizens are the true decision makers and getting them to understand and agree with the shift in priorities will be the only way to get health care policies changed.
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