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¶ … SPENDING IN U.S. HEALTHCARE
July 26, 2013 ASSESSMENT: Policy topic Search Selection. Research internet key words "Health" "Health Policy" select a policy topic interest. My selection topic "Cost Spending." You policy individual assignment.
Cost and spending: U.S. healthcare
While Americans would no doubt like to think that their healthcare system is the best in the world, the data confirms only that it is the most expensive. According to Kaiser Permanente, 16% of our nation's GNP is devoted to healthcare, "the highest among the world's industrialized nations. Over the past decade, the pace of total health care spending has grown faster than inflation and the growth in national income" (Costs and spending, 2013, Kaiser Permanente). One of the most frequently cited reasons for the high costs of healthcare is the inefficiencies of the American private insurance system. While in nations such as Canada and the United Kingdom there is a 'single payer'...
In virtually all of the industrialized world, even in nations without nationalized care, "government either sets prices or oversees price negotiations -- the U.S. is unique in our reliance on for-profit insurance companies to pay for both essential and elective care" (Thompson 2013).
In nations with government-provided healthcare, there is only a single price for various health services -- in the United States, the market sets the price. However, given the asymmetries of information by consumers and limited choices when someone is sick due to restrictions of insurance companies, the healthcare market does not operate in an optimal free-market fashion. From a physician's perspective a "fee-for-service system that rewards volume instead of value and quantity of medical services instead of quality. And as a result, we end up doing…
References
Costs and spending. (2013). Kaiser Permanente. Retrieved:
http://www.kaiseredu.org/topics/costs-and-spending.aspx
Pfeffer, T. (2013). The reason U.S. healthcare is so expensive. Retrieved:
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-04-10/the-reason-health-care-is-so-expensive-insurance-companies
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/july-dec12/medicine_09-24.html
Retrieved: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/03/why-is-american-health-care-so-ridiculously-expensive/274425/
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