Healthcare Policies in the United States

Article 1

            For more than seven years, the democrats have been pushing on the affordable act through the congress. The republicans have been determined to establish an alternative measure but to no avail. The plan is however being faced with technical as well as political complexity as the Obama care is on the verge of being replaced with a new law which is being referred to as better health care for majority at a relatively lesser cost (Pear 2017).

            The impending issue on the health policy is the fact that most of the people heavily relies on this program while most of the insurance companies are expected to make decisions within three months on the type of health plan that they want to which they will sell to the public in the year 2018. The act protects the patients with the preexisting conditions from being overcharged or being denied coverage. However the new act is intended to keep this provision. Once the senate cuts off funds that are allocated for the Planned Parenthood clinics, it will pose great problem to the US citizens. The Planned Parenthood clinics which do receive the Medicaid money for medical services are threatened with a loss of subsided health insurance. A great political mistake will be made once this act is replaced since all these federal funds would not be there to cater for medical coverage. A big number of the poor who are low and moderate income earners in US will not have some support from the act which originally helped them to cover for their bills. The republicans therefore believe that the replacement of this act would be partial as it will provide a limited protection program with limited incentives and coverage hence the victims may not be able to pay these premiums (Pear 2017).

Article 2

            In 2015, Martin Shkreli raised the price of an old drug and as a result, the public got angry with this pricing practice which as implemented by a number of pharmaceutical companies. Since that time there has been an emergence in the number of varying pricing schemes from national subsidies for those that are in need increasing the programs that are offered by these companies to offer discounts or even tying the ending result of the drug to price thus he longer the drug extends life the more expensive it is. The main issue is that the government had to come up with a strategy in 2016 which would ease the burden on patients. There has been post Ebola syndrome that could live for about nine months and this has raised an alarm in the public health sector as more people are becoming affected (Cha 2015). The seriousness to which this epidemic will occur and the capability in which the healthy system would handle the epidemic is an issue that is so concerning and thus the public needs to be made aware of this epidemic. Zika is another global public issue that is under close supervision as it is responsible for the numerous births of brain damaged infants (Cha 2015). The major issue in the health care sector is the role of the government failure to notice the exploding market of the medical devices and tests that would change the entire healthcare system.

Article 3

            The urgency to which the new president of the United States is demanding from the dismantling of the affordable care act has raised grave concerns. This has therefore caused a dilemma as the republicans are not able to find the right for a better policy to replace the Obama health care act. The issue is that the republicans may have a heavier load that may be nearly impossible standard for them to fulfill (Pear & Kaplan 2017). The fact that the act is being replaced, there is a high chance that most of the US citizens could be in the losing side as they will lose cover as the law is unwound. Therefore, these efforts that are put in place to undo the affordable care act could have detrimental consequences such as unconsciously destabilizing insurance markets which is a concern that is shared both by the democrats as well as the insurers (Pear & Kaplan 2017). The health care act thus needs to be defended and especially by the millions of people who receive the Planned Parenthood and Medicaid benefits. Failure to defend this act it will be hard for the victims to be covered as they are supposed to be insured. It will thus be hard to maintain the standards that the health care act insurance program without the penalties and subsidies. However the solution to this standing conflict in the replacement of the Obama health care act can be through the provision of price incentives and tax credits so as to make this program affordable and universal to all. In doing so, millions of citizens will not have the access to heath if the ACA is repealed and this will not help in solving the health policies that are being too costly for the moderate as well as the low income citizens.

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