The Numbers Behind Fixing Health Care In America

On March 23, 2010 Democrats slammed a health care plan through Congress that helped many Americans, but it is far from perfect. Now Republicans are offering a plan that will leave millions of Americans without insurance.  It seems as if Congress is unable to fix health care, however the current system is unsustainable. According to the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare the U.S. spent $3.2 trillion on health care in 2015. That’s $10,035 per person. It’s an insane amount of money. Turns out it is possible to lower costs and improve care, but it’s not as easy as I thought when I started the research for this article.   The answer involves us reimagining health care. I’m going to call it “universal coverage” for the sake of simplification and because calling it “a combination of public and private insurance that requires 100 percent participation in the public portion while preserving private insurance benefits” is accurate, but awkward.   Many are opposed to a system like this and cite six reasons: “I don’t want to pay for insurance for others,” “I don’t want to lose my current health insurance benefits,” “my quality of care will go down,” “universal coverage is anti-capitalist,” “pre-existing conditions are going to kill the insurance industry,” and finally, “it’s too hard to do!” All of these objections can be overcome with f...
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