Health Care Reform
Health Care Reform
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18th July, 2012
Health Care Reform
Outline
1) Health care reforms are expected to solve health care challenges and issues through different ways, including addressing the issue of obesity, rationing of care, insurance reforms, and shortage of medical practitioners to provide quality and reliable services. i) President Obama’s health care reforms (a) President Obama proposed electronic record-keeping, decrease in defensive medicine, and better classification and communication of highest affordable treatments. ii) Latest health care reform (b) The Supreme Court ruled that a massive extension of Medicaid envisaged in the health care reform was an option, not an order, for all states in America. iii) Cost and efficiency (c) Greater percentage of GDP in the United States is allocated to health care system. iv) Lowering obesity (d) Prevention of overweight and obesity offers a major chance to decrease expenses. v) Insurance reforms (e) Consumers who choose more expensive programs would pay the related greater premiums according to their choices of insurance or services. vi) Rationing of care (f) Peter Singer argued that health care system in America is under rationing and suggested for advanced rationing procedures. vii) Shortage of doctors and nurses (g) Despite the costs that will be allocated to these initiatives, the outcome will be desirable and unavoidable.
Introduction
Health care reform has remained to be an issue in the United States for the first time since 1994, when President Clinton proposed major reforms, there is provable consideration in reforming health care in America. Research reported some constant challenges where unions of all influences are providing their own positions on the issue. Political activists
Name
Grade Course
Tutor’s Name
18th July, 2012
Health Care Reform
Outline
1) Health care reforms are expected to solve health care challenges and issues through different ways, including addressing the issue of obesity, rationing of care, insurance reforms, and shortage of medical practitioners to provide quality and reliable services. i) President Obama’s health care reforms (a) President Obama proposed electronic record-keeping, decrease in defensive medicine, and better classification and communication of highest affordable treatments. ii) Latest health care reform (b) The Supreme Court ruled that a massive extension of Medicaid envisaged in the health care reform was an option, not an order, for all states in America. iii) Cost and efficiency (c) Greater percentage of GDP in the United States is allocated to health care system. iv) Lowering obesity (d) Prevention of overweight and obesity offers a major chance to decrease expenses. v) Insurance reforms (e) Consumers who choose more expensive programs would pay the related greater premiums according to their choices of insurance or services. vi) Rationing of care (f) Peter Singer argued that health care system in America is under rationing and suggested for advanced rationing procedures. vii) Shortage of doctors and nurses (g) Despite the costs that will be allocated to these initiatives, the outcome will be desirable and unavoidable.
Introduction
Health care reform has remained to be an issue in the United States for the first time since 1994, when President Clinton proposed major reforms, there is provable consideration in reforming health care in America. Research reported some constant challenges where unions of all influences are providing their own positions on the issue. Political activists
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