...the level of the National Health cares spending that was impacted whether it was for the good or worst. It also gathers the total expenditure percentage. The economic of the future of the expenditures is explained to be at a percentage that is represented. The National Expenditure level of the Healthcare in the United States in 2010 was in the round or about $ 2.6 trillion of the Healthcare expenditures .During the time of 1980 the Healthcare expenditure gradually spent over ten million dollars which was approximately stated to be $256 billion. So with the over spending the nation would be explained whether the there should be and cut and or why it was needed.(Expenditures Data, January 2012). A forecast of the health care system in the future economic has a need. The future according to the Health care spending, 2008 It has been predicted that the forecast will have a growth in a faster rate in the nation. During the earlier years the rate had begun to rise in the year of the 1900's and early 2000's the growth rate had slowed down tremendously. (Health care spending, 2008). In the United States there has been a active period of an recession that has been around for the past decade. Due to this past decade of recession in the United State has place the country in lower income and higher unemployment rate. That have also 3 place a strain on health conditions that allows for more attention. Despite the...
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...amplified; in 1996 $396.78 billion was spent on health care in 2000 $469.80 billion was spent on health care, and in 2009 $989.65 billion was spent on health care (Chantrill, n.d.). Between 1996 and 2009, a period of 13 years, health care spending increased $592.87 billion dollars. In the following I will discuss the level of current national health care expenditures, whether spending is too much or not enough, where the nation should add or cut funds and why, how the public’s health care needs are paid and the future economic needs of the health care system. The level of current national health care expenditures The level of national health care expenditures is considerably high in comparison, to any other country in the world. “Health spending in the United States is much higher than in other countries – at least $2,535 dollars, or 51% higher than Norway, the next largest per capita spender” (Kaiser Family Foundation, 2011, para. 3). In addition in 2009 the United States spent more than 17% of its gross domestic product on healthcare, which is higher than any other developed nation in the world. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) predicts “that, without any revolutions in federal law, total spending on health care will rise from 16% of GDP in 2007 to 25% in 2025, and close to 50% in 2082” (Johnson, 2010, Para. 7). Whether the spending is too much or not enough It is controversial if health care spending is enough. In my...
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...States Department of Health and Human Services: As our country struggles through tough times there is no doubt we, as a whole nation, have had to make some compromises. One of the biggest, broadest issues our country has been facing is the recent budget cuts in numerous different categories including mental health care. Mental health care has gotten the short end of the stick in the last few years, and it has become a spiraling problem in the United States. Between 2009 and 2011 the United States witnessed some of the largest state budget cuts in history, and we are still suffering from the consequences of doing so. Where does a majority of homelessness, suicide, substance abuse and jail overcrowding stem from? If you take a closer look it will become very clear that cutting the funding for mental health research and treatment has left these mentally ill patients with very few options suitable enough for their varying conditions. Due to the lack of appropriate facilities needed to properly diagnose and treat mentally ill patients, jails are becoming overcrowded and homelessness is at an all-time high. The importance of mental health care is being put on the back burner while, instead, it needs to be a priority and that is why President Obama’s proposition to increase funding to aid the mentally ill in 2014 is extremely necessary. As states cut mental health care funding, prisons are becoming an asylum. There is a very common misconception among the general public that mentally...
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...to the financial brake facing growing ascended stress on how they will manage if someone in the family needs to see a doctor and staring to just afford the cost of every day life. Having to choose between doctor visits or putting food on the table. The purpose of this paper is to provide the current level of national health care expenditures, explain whether or not the spending is too much or not enough, and explain where the nation should add or cut and why and how the public’s health care needs are paid for in the future. Whether or not the spending is too much or not enough The United States is currently undergoing major and tragic budget cuts due to the nation’s troubling deficits. Our economy’s woes have been a long time coming but were always placed in the back burner until eventually has placed a huge hole too big to continue to “bandage”. With it being said that the United State’s GDP is represented as the highest in healthcare spending; one would imagine the American people are the healthiest. This is not the case. Studies indicate the nation is troubled by the highest rates in issues that were affected by the choices of our The future economic needs of the health care system According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the U.S. has predicted to spend over $2.5 trillion on health care in 2009, or $8,160 per U.S. resident. Health spending in 2009 is predicted to account for 17.6% of GDP. In 1970, U.S. health care spending had...
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...wins one hundred percent of the time because North Korea does not allow any political opposition. The people are isolated and are completely cut off from the outside world. According to a North Korean world article, North Koreans practice collective punishment. This means that if you go against Kim Jong Il in any way, not only will you get in trouble but the rest of your entire family will be punished. There is evidence about the political prisons that say death rates are extremely high. Grandchildren to grandparents have been sent to prison camps. Guards who have defected have reported being specifically told by Kim Jong Il that the prisoners are not people and should be treated as such. They are never meant to be released and their history is erased as soon as they enter. Although North Korea denies any of these camps exist. This is a humanitarian crisis and there is evidence that they are committing crimes against humanity. Kim Jong Il and his government should be held accountable. We CANNOT sit back and allow this to go on. Satellite imagery indicates that one prison camp being shut down but we have no idea where the 30,000 prisoners that were in that one camp are. If the United States has the technology to see camps and know they exist, why is nothing being done about them? Now I want to look at how the North Korean people are cut off from the rest of the world. The North Korean people do not have internet access and they have...
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...Health Care Spending Paper Becky Perez HCS/440 Michele Burka March 6, 2012 Affordable health care is a part of the “American dream.” This dream is slowly turning into a nightmare with “42.6 million Americans uninsured including 10 million children” (govspot.com, 2012). The needs of the current health care system need to be addressed and changes need to be made because many Americans are also underinsured. The issues that will be discussed are the level of current nation health care expenditures, whether spending is too much or not enough, where the nation should add or not, and why, and how the public’s health care needs are paid for and financed by various payers. The level of current nation health care expenditures is currently at $2.1 trillion. This translated into $7,026 per person and 16% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (ajronline.org, 2008, pg. 1). 31% of this is for hospital spending, which is above the nationa health care expenditures. 5.9% for physician expenditures, which is currently lower than the overall expenditure rate due larglely to the 2% medicare fee for physicians. 19% for overall Medicare part D which caused a spike in prescription drugs. 8.8% in admisistravie fees, which grew faster than the overall rate because of the of the high number of members who joined the Medicare Advantage plan. Medicaid for the first time in history shrank because of the high number of people who enrolled in Medicare Part D. Heath care spending is to high and...
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...age: If 18 equals adulthood, then what is 21? Imagine a world where an eighteen year old cannot get a ticket for simply having a beer in their hand. A world where young people can consume alcohol without worries of getting caught. The place I am describing should be the United States, but unfortunately many nations have lower drinking ages than we do. As a result, they have significantly fewer problems with underage drinking. Seems like reverse psychology, and that is because it is. Young people in America view alcohol as the “Forbidden Fruit”, the taboo of what is suppose to be their adult eighteen-year-old lives. If eighteen is considered adult, then why are they not allowed to purchase alcohol? In Europe most countries have lower drinking ages. Alcohol is a completely normal thing for a young person to be around. Think of two adolescent children, one child is told not to touch the cookie jar before eating dinner and the other has absolutely no restrictions on the jar. The child with rules tends to get in trouble for sneaking a cookie because he or she cannot have it. The child with no limitations tends to leave the cookie jar alone because cookies are available to him or her at anytime. Alcohol is the norm for young people in several countries, but our country’s teens are like the first child who was banned from the cookie jar, they drink alcohol mostly because they are not allowed to. Our nation has attempted to control alcohol many times before; we had National...
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...Health Care Spending in the United States Lisa Patti HCS/440 April 23, 2012 Caryn Callahan Introduction Heath care in the United States is costly and confusing. Many do not follow the facts, policies or cost the government has controlled in health care. This leads to obtaining the incorrect insurance that causes high out of pocket expenses to choosing no health insurance at all. In today’s society many cannot afford health insurance, in 2010 49.9 million people in the United States were without health insurance (Overview of the Uninsured in the United States: A Summary of the 2011 Current Population Survey, 2011). The issues that will be discussed are the level of current nation health care expenditures, whether spending is too much or not enough, where the nation should add or not, and why, and how the public’s health care needs are paid for and financed by various payers. The current level of national healthcare expenditures U.S. health care costs have risen rapidly in the past few years, imposing increased stress on families, businesses, and public budgets. Health spending is increasing more rapidly than the economy and workers' earnings. In recent years, insurance administrative overhead has been rising faster than other components of health spending, while pharmaceutical spending has increased more rapidly than spending on other health care services (The Common Wealth Fund, 2007). The national health care expenditure is a total amount spent in the United States...
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...build schools, and construct irrigation systems. Maria works Monday to Saturday, and earns $210 a month, which she says is an average wage in Ecuador and substantially above the country's $120 a month It is 6:20 AM, February 7, in the Ecuadorian town of Cayambe, and Maria Pacheco has just been dropped off for work by the company bus. She pulls on thick rubber gloves, wraps an apron over her white, traditional embroidered dress, and grabs her clippers, ready for another long day. Any other time of year, Maria would work until 2 PM, but it's a week before Valentine's Day, and Maria along with her 84 coworkers at the farm are likely to be busy until 5 PM. By then, Maria will have cut more than 1,000 rose stems. A few days later, after they have been refrigerated and shipped via aircraft, the roses Maria cut will be selling for premium prices in stores from New York to London. Ecuadorian roses are quickly becoming the Rolls Royce of roses. They have huge...
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...Health Care Spending 1 Health Care Spending Chandra Williams HCS/440 October 6, 2014 Dawn Chiabotti Health Care Spending 2 National Health Care Spending The United States of America offers some of the best health care services in the world! Our citizens have so many options for medical care and specialty services, sometimes we forget how truly lucky we are to have such an abundance of health services so readily available to us. On average every American visits the doctor (checkup, hospital stay or emergency services) 4 times per year, with some people (in their 20’s and 30’s) go less often and some people (infants and elderly) go much more frequently (Graham, 2008). Because of this tremendous need of health care for every American the National health care spending amount is quite high and continues to grow. Current Level of National Healthcare Spending In 2011 the National healthcare spending was about 2.7 trillion dollars, or broken down about $8,650 per person (McCanne M.D., 2011). These statistics take into account hospital stays, specialty visits, infant well child checkups, etc. Even more astonishing is that this report projected that if the United States continues to spend money on health care this way that by 2020 the National health care spending will almost double being roughly 4.6 trillion, which breaks down to be $13,700 per...
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...build schools, and construct irrigation systems. Maria works Monday to Saturday, and earns $210 a month, which she says is an average wage in Ecuador and substantially above the country's $120 a month It is 6:20 AM, February 7, in the Ecuadorian town of Cayambe, and Maria Pacheco has just been dropped off for work by the company bus. She pulls on thick rubber gloves, wraps an apron over her white, traditional embroidered dress, and grabs her clippers, ready for another long day. Any other time of year, Maria would work until 2 PM, but it's a week before Valentine's Day, and Maria along with her 84 coworkers at the farm are likely to be busy until 5 PM. By then, Maria will have cut more than 1,000 rose stems. A few days later, after they have been refrigerated and shipped via aircraft, the roses Maria cut will be selling for premium prices in stores from New York to London. Ecuadorian roses are quickly becoming the Rolls Royce of roses. They have huge...
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...important the economy can adjust accordingly to individuals about whether health care spending is too much or not enough. Current Level of National Healthcare Spending The topic of healthcare spending in the United States is a controversial one, and most often, the populations' opinions doesn't always agree with those of policymakers. Getting health care spending under control is vital to the economic health of the government and the people of the United States. What makes healthcare expenditures so disgraceful is the large amount of money the government spends on healthcare each year versus the number of people without health care. The amount of money the U.S. government spends on health care each year doubles that of any other nation. Despite the large amount of government spending, a large percentage of Americans have no healthcare coverage. This shows inefficiency in the system that needs immediate attention. The purpose of this paper is to explain health care expenditures suggest changes for the future that are necessary for Americans to receive reasonably priced health care. The current level of...
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...Michael Levi MICHAEL A. LEVI is David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment at the Council on Foreign Relations. This December, diplomats from nearly 200 countries will gather in Copenhagen to negotiate a successor to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which for the first time bound wealthy countries to specific cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. Most of these emissions come from burning fossil fuels -- coal, oil, and natural gas -- for energy, from deforestation, and from the agricultural sector. They must be cut deeply in the coming decades if the world is to control the risks of dangerous climate change. Most of those devoted to slashing the world's greenhouse gas emissions have placed enormous weight on the Copenhagen conference. Speaking earlier this year about the conference, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was emphatic: "We must harness the necessary political will to seal the deal on an ambitious new climate agreement in December here in Copenhagen. . . . If we get it wrong we face catastrophic damage to people, to the planet." Hopes are higher than ever for a breakthrough climate deal. For the past eight years, many argued that developing nations reluctant to commit to a new global climate-change deal -- particularly China and India -- were simply hiding behind the United States, whose enthusiastic engagement was all that was needed for a breakthrough. Now the longawaited shift in U.S. policy has arrived. The Obama administration is taking ambitious steps to limit...
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...They become eligible to serve in the military and yield weapons. Also at 18, one can go out to the store and buy a pack of cigarettes. So why can they still not have a beer. This is where controversy has begun. People believe the drinking age should be lowered to 18. Already in some states it is legal for someone to drink at 18, under some circumstances, but why is it not nationwide?...
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...Health Care Spending Paper HCS 440 October 30, 2013 Health Care Spending Paper In the United States about 44 million people do not have health insurance. 38 million Americans have inadequate health coverage (PBS). The level of current national health care expenditures increases every year. Is this spending on health care too much or not enough? Where the United States should add or cut from, and why. How the public’s health care is paid for and who pays. The current level of expenditures of the nation’s health care is presently at $2.1 trillion. This translates to $7,026 per person, and 16% of the Gross Domestic Product (ajronline.org, 2008). Hospital spending accounts for 31%, which is over the national health care expenditures. Physician expenditures are at 5.9%, and this is presently lower than the general expenditure amount due greatly to the 2% Medicare fee for physicians. Medicare Part D is at 19% and caused a quick rise in prescription drugs. Due to the high rate of individuals that joined the Medicare Advantage plan, administration fees were at 8.8% which grew faster than the overall. Due to the vast number of people enrolling in Medicare Part D, Medicaid shrank for the first time in history. The spending with health care is very high, and continues to climb. This means that the growth rates in health care persist to surpass the overall Gross Domestic Product, and will eventually exceed other spending. The national health care expenditures will not be supportable...
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