Policy Interview Analysis
For this essay I chose to interview Carla, a Registered Nurse, with twenty years of experience, from the Operating Room. She has seen many changes occur in healthcare during his career. This paper will discuss some of the values he finds most important for creating an equal healthcare system. In order to establish an equal healthcare system, coverage needs to be affordable, with equal opportunities for everyone, and American’s need to feel they have the freedom of choice for the type of coverage they want.
Healthcare coverage first of all, needs to be affordable. Employers should pay all or most of the healthcare premiums to cover their employees. The coverage should be competitive and at the same time the employee should have the right to choose if they want to be covered or seek private insurance. Mandatory physical exams and blood work should be discussed in detail at employee forums and human resources should not just assume all employees know their coverage rights. Physician’s office staff should be well educated in insurance literacy to let their patients know what their coverage rights are. This will keep the patient from getting a surprisingly high statement in the mail. Those who are eligible for Medicare should not have deductibles. If they are on Medicare then they obviously fall below some standard and therefore do not have the money to pay for medical coverage. Carla states, “Medicare should not be eliminated unless the federal government is going to hand out free healthcare coverage to the elderly.” According to the Future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), as part of the Medicare Modernization Act that occurred in 2003, Medicare Plans were reduced to lower reimbursements. The goal was to have more beneficiaries seek private insurance, more cost effective and efficient than Medicare. The Government