Health Care Thesis Statement

"A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members." - Mahatma Ghandi Nearly 44 percent of the United States’ population, roughly 81 million adults, was either underinsured or uninsured in 2010. The lack of health insurance cost the US between $124 billion and 248 billion per year (DPE, 2016). This lack of health care coverage also results in an increased rate of morbidity and mortality, loss of productivity, and shortened lifespans among the American people (Schoen, Doty, Robertson, & Collins, 2010).
Healthcare coverage is disproportionate with mainly the poor and minority groups bearing the burden of lack of coverage (DPE, 2016).

Thesis Statement: The US spends more on healthcare than many other countries yet its citizens
DESCRIBE IMPACT OF LACK OF INSURANCE COVERAGE
Loss of work productivity resulting from untreated illness burdens not only individuals financially, but also decreases the nation’s overall productivity. Avoiding 20% of lost workdays among the uninsured could have saved over 160,000 of the nation’s work days and lost productivity (Stephens & Ledlow, 2010). to reduce the disparity in healthcare coverage, while reducing the nation’s healthcare cost.
The lack of healthcare coverage often influences health promoting and screening behaviors. Those who are uninsured are often less likely than those who are insured to obtain health screenings, such as mammograms and prostate exams (Stephens & Ledlow, 2010). Uninsured individuals usually postpone treatment of illness until symptoms are severe, which is often when treatment cost is also heightened. This trend burdens the healthcare system contributing to the nation’s rising healthcare cost and widening healthcare access and health disparity
The unified electronic database can be used to identify the patterns and behaviors of physicians and discern which physicians are outliers- for example, ordering unnecessary numbers of tests or frequently prescribing toxic drugs (Schiff et al., 2014). More attention can be directed toward the most important issue, which is the provision of quality of care to patients, rather than billing and cost concerns. The unified, single-payer system assures resources are available and requires dedicated health planning. Planning and proper financial managing will ensure resources are not duplicated. The system can also incorporate the major theme of prevention that the ACA focused on and further cut costs. Like the ACA, the single-payer system would place precedence on the promotion of health and the prevention of chronic disease, while improving the health of all citizens and more effectively containing costs in the