Our Next Health Care Debate Summary

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The article written by Slavitt (2017) titled Our Next Health Care Debate, talked about four recommendations that the public and private sectors need to do to have the greatest chance of success at health care coverage. First is to invest in public education at the grass roots by carefully listening and understand the issues they care about health care and possible trade-offs. The aim for the health care reform to be lasting, the goal is to develop policies that 60% to 70 % of the public supports. Second is to develop credible state results, that are already in place and successful, to avoid think-tank fantasies. We can learn from what happens in the states and learned from the real world experience. One of the biggest hindrance to transform the healthcare is the high cost. And his third recommendation is to focus on fiscal sustainability before we increase access to coverage. He is talking about reducing the cost of prescription drugs, care for people in lower-cost settings, and reduce the administrative costs. In addition, it will be necessary to do tax increases or spending cut to balance or afford the new spending. Monitor the excess in the system and create incentives to deliver more with less, to be cost effective. In addition, his last recommendation is focus …show more content…

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