Challenges in Implementing Healthcare Prevention Expansion

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As any proposal, this proposal has some potential negative outcomes, as you may well know. Some of the potential negative outcomes that can arise from the expansion of prevention is that many individuals will argue that all these efforts will not better increase a person's health because its upon the individual to take action and seek these available resources provided to them. Aside from this, many will not like the idea of cutting some medical expenses such as pharmaceutical companies and biomedical companies, which will realize that some cut in theses medical procedures and medications will not be beneficial for the companies' interest. For example, Pharmaceutical companies will oppose the idea of cutting medical expensive because some medication will be cut off the market depending on their effectiveness, and companies like biomedical companies will also oppose this because they will feel threatened that their medical technologies will be cut thus reducing their profit. As a result, this could lead to these industry to make advertisements informing people that expanding prevention is not a beneficial thing to do just as they did with running adds against the ACA (Halfmann, Lecture). Generally speaking, these large special interest groups, from pharmaceuticals and medical insurance companies, these industries have come to show that it when it comes to increasing resources for medical care they generally always seem to promote rather than oppose these agendas (Hemenways 2010). …show more content…

They will also argue that this proposal gives too much power to the government in implementing so many programs and, as you may well know, they hardly ever look at public programs as being any good to society. Most importantly, the Republicans will definitely not agree in us raising taxes, since they tend to want to give tax breaks to big corruption because they are under the idea that tax breaks on the rich will be more beneficial to society as a whole because it will generate more work and the rich will invest in the development of this country (Halfmann, Lecture Notes). On the other hand, this proposal will be have a great support from the public health sector for reason that they have tried tirelessly to improve the American health through the years and have lacked the funding to do so. Likewise, they realize that health care is not enough to increase the quality of an individual's health. In addition, we will also see support for physician, especially the primary care sector who will agree that in order to improve the actions health we need to look outside the traditional medical prevention and more into programs that outside of health can do the same and better

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