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¶ … Affordable Care Act: Improving the Quality and Efficiency of Health Care

Is the Medical Care System a Public Health Issue?

The medical care system is a public health issue because it deals with the issues of providing care. The main issue is that health care costs have risen dramatically over the years because of the merger between business and government in the health sector, allowing for monopolies, cartels and price fixing to develop. As Death by Medicine Part I (2011) shows, Big Pharma is manipulating the public and convincing it that it needs the coverage that includes costly health plans where all the different drugs that "save lives" can be had. The reality is that Big Pharma is dangerous to people's health and is essentially a trust that needs a president like Theodore Roosevelt to come along and "bust" it. The fact that "the federal government is actually considering classifying most vitamins and other supplements as drugs" shows the way in which the health care cartel uses government agencies like the FDA to exert their influence in order to allow Big Pharma to corner the market (Death by Medicine Part I, 2011).

2. When is Medical Care a Public Health Responsibility?

Medical Care is a Public Health Responsibility -- but not in the way that politicians, who cooperate with the cartel want the public to think. They want the public to believe that medical care would not be possible if the government were not involved -- but their involvement is actually what allows the cartel to function, rolling over smaller providers and causing massive piles of red tape and bureaucratic record keeping to stomp out anyone who cannot afford to do all of it. Plus with all the regulations, no one can really practice "medicine" that is considered alternative; therefore, the cartel controls all aspects. This is a public health concern and it is the public's responsibility to do something about it. However, the illusion of representative government is wearing thin: politicians represent the interests of Big Pharma more than they do the interests of the common American citizen, and that is why medical care costs are so high: Big Pharma is gauging the public and getting away with it because the government is in its back pocket and the laws and regulations are devised in order to allow the cartel to continue to operate in such a way (Gibney, 2009).

3.Why do costs rise?

As the documentary Why Does U.S. Health Care Cost So Much? (2012) states, "30% of U.S. health care spending is devoted to unnecessary services," which amounts to "800 billion dollars a year." That means that a massive amount of money is basically going into the pocket of the health care industry for no reason whatsoever. Prices could come down by 30% -- yet that is only half the story, for prices are still ridiculously high -- and the reason is that the health cartel gets to set the rates because the government allows it to.