Cost Of Health Care Essay

Health Care Costs, Access, and Quality
The United States has a highly developed health care system that can be extremely complex and infuriating, but it has come a long way considering that most health care facilities were just a place where the sick were housed and cared for until their death in the pre-era’s. However, health care today is at the crossroads of continuous struggles with providing health care to all Americans while maintaining standards of quality at a cost that is affordable to individuals and the nation as whole (Shi, Singh, 76).
There are multiple reasons as to why the cost of health care keeps rising. For starters, naturally we grow old and get sick which means we tend to need more medical care. “Nearly half of the U.S.

Most health insurers or private sector consumers and employees can expect to see an increase in insurance premiums and this includes the traditional types of insurance and managed care programs. 44 million Americans are uninsured (Sherry Glied, n.d.) which means that people are paying out of their pockets for certain services and the prescription medicines that they may need. Access to health care today compared to ten years ago is quite similar. Back then, most people had access to health care by a private insurance provided by their work, which is similar to today as well. Also, people paid out of their pocket for any services that they needed and relied on programs such as Medicaid or Medicare. Providers can refuse to care for those with certain payment plans such as Medicaid simply because it is not a moneymaker for doctor’s offices and “it is paired with the administrative requirements of accepting public insurance, which doctors just do not want to deal with the hassle” (Elizabeth Renter, 2015). I would like to believe that we will have universal access to health care in the future, but for that to happen, congress needs to come together with other medical professionals and develop a plan that would be fair and equitable for