The difficulty in creating universal access to healthcare services in the United States stems from a conflict of political, economic, and social values. Briefly describe some of the ways these areas of conflict have influenced and continue to influence the direction of healthcare reform.
a. Answer: a. Political – Ideological differences of the Democrats (healthcare is a right) and Republicans (healthcare is a commodity); Reaganomics, and the more recent divisive, noncollaborative actions of the Republican and Democratic parties.
b. Economic – Special-interest groups made up of physicians, hospitals, insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and innumerable other “special-interest groups” lobby the federal government to protect their piece of the profit-generating potential of the healthcare industry; escalating cost of healthcare.
c. Fear of Bolshevism and Communism, concern for the right of individual choice.
Ans: a
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