Comp Proposals +5
The corruption in the US healthcare system
This paper will focus on the negatives of the US healthcare system. From insurance and availability to all people in the US. The US healthcare system negatively affects all races, ages, and social classes. My claims will be on the difficulties that many US citizens face while dealing with the healthcare system in the US. My proposal will be why the US healthcare system is corrupt.
(n.d.). Urgent Care Center Utilization Skyrocketed by 1725% in Last Decade. Healthpayerintelligence.com. https://healthpayerintelligence.com/news/urgent-care-center-utilization-skyrocketed-by-1725-in-last-decade
Usage: This article will help me better understand the trends and demographics of people who use urgent care for their health care needs. I also can use these data reports for the prices and differences in pricing from urgent care to primary doctor visits.
Quotes: “Healthcare payers saw urgent care center utilization grow by 1725 percent from 2007 to 2016, indicating that urgent care may the one of the fastest-growing choices for receiving healthcare.”
“Patients between ages 31 to 40 accounted for the highest percentage of urgent care claims, with 18 percent of the utilization. The next largest age groups were beneficiaries ages 41 to 50 (15.7 percent) and ages 23 to 30 (15.2 percent).”
“Rural areas experienced significantly higher urgent care utilization growth rates than urban areas (2308 percent vs. 1675 percent).”
“Urgent care utilization data found that payers spend the most on urgent care global fees, which cover all services in an urgent care center. Payers spent an average of $438 on the cost of global fees.”
“The data also indicated that retail clinic utilization grew by 847 percent nationally and that telehealth use grew by 643 percent nationally.”
(n.d.). Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States. Census.gov. Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States (census.gov)
Usage: With this article, I will see and understand the percentages of people in the US with or without health insurance. I can also use this article for the data related to poverty rates and how that can affect people when trying to get health care for themselves and their families.
Quotes: “Meanwhile the percentage of people with health insurance coverage for all or part of 2019 was 92.0% and 8.0% of people, or 26.1 million, did not have health insurance at any point during 2019, according to the 2020 Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC).”
“Private health insurance coverage was more prevalent than public coverage, covering 68.0% and 34.1% of the population at some point during the year, respectively.”
“In 2019, the percentage of people with employer-provided coverage at the time of interview was slightly higher than in 2018, from 55.2% in 2018 to 55.4% in 2019.”
“Between 2018 and 2019, the percentage of people without health insurance coverage decreased in one state and increased in nineteen states.”
- Feldman, S. (1992, July). Taking America’s pulse. Management Review, 81(7), 12+. https://link-gale-com.ezproxy.rowan.edu/apps/doc/A12321888/AONE?u=rowan&sid=googleScholar&xid=fa9c8807
Usage: This article had some good information that I will be able to use throughout my paper. It also touched on the part of the healthcare system that is being overused and/or where money has been wasted on insured people who didn’t need that drug, test, or operation.
Quotes: “Healthcare costs account for 6 percent of total worker compensation and 36 percent of total spending on employee benefits”
“Two out of three employers believe that their greatest cost problem in the 1990s will be the rising expense of health insurance.”
“About one-third of those uninsured Americans are unemployed and unable to qualify for Medicaid; the others work part time or in jobs that offer little or no insurance.”
“69 percent of U.S. voters say they would support adoption of a Canadian-style healthcare system; only 20 percent are opposed.”
“More than half of the 65,000 pacemakers prescribed each year and nearly half of the 130,000 coronary artery bypass operations performed each year are unnecessary.”
(n.d.). The US healthcare system: Current issues and proposal for further reform. Webmedcentral.com. WebmedCentral.com :: The US Healthcare System: Current Issues And Proposal For Further Reform
Usage: to prove the high costs of insurance and how even when citizens in the US are in the middle or upper class, they are still paying a large amount of money.
Quotes: “ There are currently 15% or 46 million of citizens do not have any health insurance at all. A study showed that 62% of personal bankruptcies in the US are related to health expenditure in 2007, and meanwhile, average families have to pay additional $1000 each year in insurance premiums to cover the uninsured, which President Obama called “a hidden and growing tax”
“On the other hand, the high costs of health insurance put US business at a competitive disadvantage. US small business becomes more and more reluctant to provide health insurance for their employees.”
- Kumar, S., Ghildayal, N.S. and Shah, R.N. (2011), “Examining quality and efficiency of the US healthcare system”, International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 24 No. 5, pp. 366-388. https://doi.org/10.1108/09526861111139197
Usage: explains the expensiveness of the healthcare system
Quotes: “The US healthcare system is characterized as the world’s most expensive yet least effective compared with other nations. Growing healthcare costs have made millions of citizens vulnerable.”
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I left this commentary on the Help With Definitions page:
Young Thug has identified a VERY broad topic without so far finding a way to narrow it down to a manageable Hypothesis. This is what Thug says about the project:
This paper will focus on the negatives of the US healthcare system. From insurance and availability to all people in the US. The US healthcare system negatively affects all races, ages, and social classes. My claims will be on the difficulties that many US citizens face while dealing with the healthcare system in the US. My proposal will be why the US healthcare system is corrupt.
It’s hard to understand how the healthcare system “negatively affects” everyone without doing everybody actual physical harm during doctor visits, which is NOT what Young Thug means. But, what, then, are the negative effects? “Insurance” and “availability” and “difficulties while dealing” don’t offer much clarification. The final claim that the US healthcare system “is corrupt” is SO broad it could never be addressed in 300,000 words. I’m very much hoping Young Thug will find a way to narrow this topic to something MUCH more manageable. To say that insurance is expensive and that too many Americans are uninsured is certainly true, but it doesn’t show corruption. The argument I like best from the sources I’ve seen in the Proposal+5 is that the money every American spends in higher health insurance premiums to cover the unpaid costs of the uninsured is a “growing and hidden tax.” This shortfall is common in all sorts of government programs and in business. Maybe that’s what Young Thug is getting at. Healthcare providers, pharmaceutical companies, Health Insurers are all billion-dollar businesses with big lobbying presence in Washington who for decades have resisted a National Healthcare system like Canada’s, a fact Young Thug points out from a source. If xhe likes the corruption angle, that’s close. Everybody makes billions and Congress won’t pass healthcare legislation to nationalize the system because, for a start, nobody would need health insurance and that whole massively profitable industry would disappear
Be wary of articles like “Taking America’s Pulse,” above, Young Thug. I haven’t spent time to vet the source, but the technique of dropping little quotable tidbits into a long list of “hot takes” without identifying where the numbers came from is HIGHLY SUSPECT. Not to mention, the collection of material is 30 years old, so even if its claims were true in 1992, they probably are very much out of date in the rapidly-changing climate of healthcare/costs/insurance.
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