A universal health care plan would increase the workforce dramatically because more providers will be needed. This will be beneficial to our economy because it will create many jobs within the health field. However, numerous challenges still remain.
- The workforce needs to be distributed evenly per capita.
- Education should be cost effective.
- With cheaper education we can lower salaries of providers.
- Providers should be more concerned with patients' needs than with their salaries.
- More providers means they can see less patients but for longer periods of time.
Our stance on the US health care workforce is also affected by the distribution of health care professionals across the nation. The demand for health care professionals exists in every state, but health care professionals are undoubtedly more concentrated in certain areas of the country. Different states and different areas require more or less health care attention. An uneven distribution of services in varying areas could result in an overall increase in health care costs based on the prices that are reflective of the cost of living in those areas.
Who has all the answers? No one can predict every individual unforseen event that will occur in the future and come up with an automatic response. Health care is not a cut and dry, right or wrong topic. It is something that everyone should receive, especially if their life and/or quality of life depends on it. Yes, "someone" does have to pay for all these costs beecause it does cost someone something. However, the United States has a great deal of "someone's" and we should all be willing and able to help our neighbors out. Who knows when we'll need the favor returned to us?
ReplyDeleteI agree that our health care needs to change, but I think that we need to realize that a change this big cannot happen overnight. It is going to take time to change people's views and to actually get it going. I think it can be done but I think our government should take the time to do it correctly-not just slap it all together in a rush and then have problems with it down the road. Also, I believe our health care system should try and focus more on primary prevention instead of tertiary; it would keep our country a lot healthier and cut down on expensive services down the road.
ReplyDeleteI think the first line of this couldn't say it better. Modern day health care is seen as something that everyone has/should have by most of the population.. or so it seems to us, those with health care. After taking this course and truly thinking about the real-life dilemmas so many people face because they do not have health care, it is terrifying and extremely dissapointing. How can a sick person be denied (verbally or financially) to be treated when technology exsists to do so? Moreover, how can Americans be so inhumane as to simply turn a blind eye to what is going on to their neighbors.. right next store? Perhaps, we have become such a self-serving society that we no longer give a second thought to how our brothers and sisters are doing? It is extremely dissapointing.
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