Mha614

Takela S. Golson

MHA614: Policy Formation & Leadership in Health Organizations

Week#6

Professor: Laura Sliwinski

January 13, 2014

Health care in the United States has been under scrutiny since before I knew that healthcare existed. The fight for an effective healthcare system has affected millions of Americans ranging from the below poverty billows of a small town west of Palm Beach county city in Florida to the extremely rich Senator near Capitol Hill. There are millions of issues with Healthcare in the United States yet the two biggest issues to me are the cost of healthcare and the newly implemented Affordable Healthcare Act.

The cost of health care is outrageous and keeps many people uninsured. As said by ProCon.org, 46.3 million People in the US were uninsured in 2008 according to the US Census Bureau.  In 2007, health care expenditures totaled $2.2 trillion - 16.2% of the US economy. Health care is the largest industry in the US, employing more than 14 million people. Yet many of those people are among those uninsured because they cannot afford the cost of the insurance premiums or the co-pays for that matter.

Despite the cost of health care there have been attempts to reform the turmoil we call our HealthCare System here in the US. Our current commander and chief recently passed what we now call the affordable healthcare act or known to many as Obama Care. The Affordable HealthCare Act is the closest we have come to universal healthcare to date. This new law makes changes to many of the current healthcare policies and practices. However, both the cost of healthcare and the Affordable health care act raise many questions. Questions that have yet to be answered because change is happening with both problems in the system but we have yet to tell if they are good or bad.

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