HEALTH CARE POLICIES

Health care policies

Health care policies

Introduction

In the last couple of years, there have been some major problems with U.S. healthcare- foremost is providing healthcare. United States had almost 50 million uninsured people who were essentially unable to access healthcare (Kaiser Foundation and the Census Bureau, 2010). Studies have confirmed that these uninsured did not receive preventive care and often didn't get urgent care when needed. When they did get care, society paid-either through higher premiums or special taxes for uncompensated care. According to authors of healthcare legislation, this problem was largely solved by health reform (Robert, 2011). In this paper, ...