Economics and Change

Universal Healthcare sounds appealing, but it actually lowers the quality and quantity of healthcare services that are rendered to patients, thus downgrading the healthcare system as a whole.  Not having to pay, with everyone having coverage leads to longer wait times for medical service and many people overusing health care services. Implementation of Universal Healthcare in the United States would lead to a detrimental crippling of the nation’s health system. For those countries that have implemented Universal Healthcare or a system similar to it, all or most aspects of the coverage such as cost and care is generally provided by and tightly controlled by the government, a public-sector committee, or employer-based programs, with most of the funding essentially coming from tax revenues or budget cuts in other areas of spending. This paper will conclude with comparing the US healthcare system to others and how the US has one of the most advanced systems in the world.

Many people believe that the current of health care in the United States is the best health care in the world however it has major shortcomings that has become more visible for the whole world to see. The United States has the most expensive health care system in the world based on health expenditure per capita and on

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I will compare the current health care system with the new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) that became law on March 23, 2010.   The current system, which is being phased out between 2011 and 2018 is increasingly inaccessible to many poor and lower-middle-class people. About 47 million Americans lack health insurance, an increase of more than two million people from 2005 (Rover, 2011) the increasingly complex warfare between insurers and hospitals over who pays the bills is gobbling up a great deal of money and the end result is that the United States pays roughly twice as much per

In the past what has hindered health care reform plans from being enacted were the issues surrounding how they were to be funded. When comparing the attempts of the Clinton administration, the current legislation developed by both the House and the Senate, and Britain’s National Health Service, it is in my opinion that my optimal health care reform plan be funded through taxes, cost-sharing, and fees. In order for this plan to be successful it must be economically feasible and be able to reduce overall health care costs.

There are many problems with healthcare in America today. One of them including the astronomical cost. According to CDC.ORG in 2007 the average person spends seven thousand four hundred dollars per year on health care alone. This rise in healthcare is extremely detrimental for families, seniors, and people of all ages. With such a high cost of insurance people are forced to make hard choices in

Health Care in America has recently changed by President Obama and reform and changes are heading our way. The Affordable health care act or better known as “Obama Care” is changing the way each American family access and our provided health care. America prior to the induction of this bill had about 15% of its population uninsured, and with one of the most profitable health care systems in place America leads the world in medical advances and technology. Those posses a serious problem, which is how does a country have such success in health care finically but its people remain sick? President Obama has changed that as of March 2010 by placing a Health care system that is going to change the current one to essentially benefit all

The U.S. is an industrialized nation that continues to be behind on providing health care coverage to all citizens. However, the German health care system came up with a plan that ensured all citizens are provided with some form of health care coverage; nevertheless, the U.S. continues to dispute health care reform and how to provide coverage to all citizens. “Health spending per capita in the United States is much higher than in other countries – at least $2,535 dollars, or 51%, higher than Norway, the next largest per capita spender. Furthermore, the United States spends nearly double the average $3,923 for the 15 countries ("Health Care Cost," 2011, table 1)”.

When I did research, the research revelations took me by surprise. I, indeed, found U.S. per capita healthcare costs were significantly higher than comparable figures in U.K., France, Australia, and Canada etc. yet their citizens enjoyed higher average life spans than Americans. My research efforts also revealed the U.S. healthcare system doesn’t entirely follow the spirit of capitalism as healthcare industry participants often collude to keep prices high. In addition, many healthcare providers such as physicians have little or no incentives to improve patient care because their jobs are relatively safe. Similarly, the healthcare providers also have little incentive to contain costs because they know insurance companies will foot the bill and pass the burden to the consumers. Moreover, there is also a serious shortage of reliable information sources for the

The quality of health care in America is very scary; if you are lucky to have a great job with an excellent insurance that will cover any health scare than you’re very fortunate. The insurance companies are playing God with who will live or who will die. Americans pay more on health care than any other countries and still have to deal with paying high co-pays and medicines that is not covered by their insurance. Healthcare is more vital to people than most other goods or services, and we have a strong shared interest in guaranteeing that the healthcare system works as well as it can. The consequences of poor quality can be awful. People spend a lot on healthcare and health insurance, and these costs have risen much more rapidly over time than

As an example, in 1997 Congress attempted to fix the reimbursement rate by fixing it to the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale, or RBRVS, and using a new system called the Sustainable Growth Rate, tied the growth in physician fees to growth in the size of the nations economy, as measured by GDP and it didn’t work. As Medicare spending grew faster than the economy, the new law required Medicare fees to be reduced and both parties of Congress have refused to enforce the provision.

As a matter of fact Wise and Yashiro, 2006 assert that there some individuals who describe the America’s system as being fragmented and inefficient, considering the staggering statistics regarding how Americans spend more on health care compared to other countries in the world. Additionally, they suffer from massive insurance costs and uneven quality of care, and thus understanding the debate about the two diametrically opposed viewpoints requires an in-depth understanding of the current health care issues in the United States (Rashidian, Joudaki, Vian, & Baradaran, 2012).

JCP has different types of fixed costs with their company. The most important expenses would be the rent for their buildings. Most of their companies are based inside of malls. The company pays a yearly rent to these malls in order to stay in business. Also other fixed costs would be insurance, any payment on loans JCP has out, management salaries and their advertising, Variable costs will change due to the company’s activity volume or level. Some of the Variable costs included materials, hourly production wages, sales commissions, packaging supplies, shipping cost and inventory. There are different factors that could affect these costs. One of those factors being how much JCP sales volume changes. Some costs will not

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