Health Care Reform: the Macro Perspective
Andrew Ojo
HCS/550
December 16, 2013
Connie Melton

Health Care Reform, the Macro Perspective
Often a time individuals living in America wonders how the health care system could change for the better. One problem that has constantly troubled the minds of consumers have been the subject of health care cost and restrictions invoked by health care coverage providers. At the moment, most of the American people need quality health care services resulting mainly from lack of health care coverage. Here in the United States health care policy and health care service has become controversial domestic issue. Most Americans have this believe that there is a strain on their budgets resulting from how much they have to pay for health care, even employers are complaining that they pay too much as share of cost for employees (Shader, 2013). According to William (2009), the U. S spend a huge portion of its gross national product mainly on health care as compared to other countries. U.S Chamber of Commerce (2013), “The United States spends $2.7 trillion a year on healthcare, and in 2011, the government was on the hook for $38.6 trillion in unfunded liabilities for Medicare”. At present, the United States has relatively poor outcomes in the state health for her citizens to show for the expenditures.
In a bid, to find a lasting solution to this concerns, the legislative arms in conjunction with government heads enacted a series of laws in recent years. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was the first of these laws, President Obama this act signed into law in 2009. After much argument in 2010, The Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act was signed into law. This was accompanied by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act. Another legislation that became a law in 2010 is the Patient