Question

Choose one of the current proposals below regarding the U.S. health care reform, then write a brief report on it: describe it, analyze it and tell why you either support or oppose it.

The current proposals:

• Expanded Medicaid eligibility; create health insurance exchanges.

• Expand regulation of private health insurance market

• Mandates enforced by penalties that require individuals to maintain coverage and firms to offer affordable plans.

• Reduction in Medicare spending to fund coverage expansion for non-Medicare recipients

• Create new federal taxes.

• Formation of nonprofit insurance cooperatives in the insurance exchanges.

Answer 1

Expanded Medicaid eligibility is currently need if the hour as we need to mitigate inequality of health care treatment as empirically the middle class suffers the most when riches are taxed and taxes get disseminated amingst poorer sections creating void for middle income groups.

Hence healthcare insurance exchanges medium is most importantly gamechanger for society where consumers can compare online plans and buy individual healthcare.

Plan.

To overcome healthcare inequality there needs to be well comprehensive research conducted to analyse it across all segment and according new reforms need to be proposed and implemented.

The fact that health outcomes must incorporate death, loss of function, lack of well being, being alive physically and mentally we need to segregate and measure outcomes arising due to non availability of medicaid:

Consequently three metrics are proposed here:

1. Age adjustable mortality rates
2. Age specific mortality rates
3. Self reported health level

To measure health outcomes nased above metrics three approaches are deeived :

1. Assessment od distribution of health outcomes
2. Aggregation of health outcomes measurement into summary statistics
3. Measurement of function and well-being of society

Tje measuring data is taken from top notch sources like BFRSS, NHIS, NHANES.

This helps researchers to gauge overall cause and effects of health outcomes and population groups and to reduce inequality of treatments offered across age and diversity. The paper aims to identify inequality across races, age, sex, education, ethnicities across all geography and socio economic classes to arrive at recommendations for reducing inequality.