Overpriced Health Care

In today's world, money can be seen to rule our lives. Being a necessity, health care takes a lot of our money. As a need, health care is overpriced. Overpriced health care can cause numerous problems for citizens in America. The average cost of health care in the US priced too high for the average American to afford. The high price of contraceptives can cause overpopulation. Without reasonable access to contraceptives, it is more difficult to prevent high birth rates causing overcrowding on Earth. The skyrocketing birth rates can be blamed on the inaccessible contraceptives. The majority of people believe that birth control is reasonable priced, therefore easily accessible; on the contrary, the high price of contraceptives is one of the biggest

The majority Americans expect better quality health care seeing how expensive it is in the US. Since the nation spends so much on health care, the people expect better results and outcomes from doctors but this isn’t the case. Doctors that require more money in order to be treated do not have better patient outcomes. A study found that higher spending doctors do not have lower death rates or less readmissions after being discharged (Tsugawa 3). This study shows that even though people think that their outcomes are affected by the sizable amount of money they pay to be treated by these doctors, they get the same, if not worse, care if they were to pay for the less expensive doctors. Better, more costly medical equipment patients pay extra for do not attest to better patient outcomes. Advanced, more expensive medical equipment has not led to better patient outcome for citizens in the US. The US has one of the most unfavorable health statistics in the world, despite the advanced medical technology (Kangas 25). The exorbitant equipment that patients long to receive treatment from don’t convey better outcomes compared to the less expensive, older equipment, even though the high price makes people falsely assume otherwise.Patient outcomes are not positively affected by higher spending doctors more costly doctors. Doctors and physicians in hospitals are all

Children that are unhealthy or unable to receive health care and treatments they need do not learn as well as they could be. Children can learn at their maximum potential under one condition; they are healthy. The only way this is possible is if medical care is easily and readily accessible. Doctors and medical professionals want parents and teachers to know that children can learn at optimum levels if they are healthy (Itrich 1). Being unhealthy takes a toll on kids learning, making it much harder for students to stay focused and motivated in their school work. Optimal health levels are only obtainable if health care is attainable and cost is feasible. Health care is too expensive for families with children to obtain. “Every year, about 50 million children spend six to seven hours a day, nine months of the year attending public school. Ten percent of them are medically underserved due to inadequate health insurance and/or limited access to health care. At least 15% come to school with one or more known preexisting medical conditions.” (Lear 2) Without proper health insurance, medical attention is harder to receive. This causes children to go to school with medical problems making it harder to learn at optimal levels. Unhealthy kids that have a harder time receiving healthcare spend less time in the classroom. Consequently, there is a correlation between health, attendance, and academic performance. Children that