Privilege In Healthcare

Is Healthcare a Right or a Privilege
My position on health care in the united states is that it should be a right. Every citizen should have the right to quality healthcare. The government’s role in healthcare should be like the way the public-school systems are run. And just like the schools there, would be private and public hospitals. Those that can afford health insurance would have the option of utilizing either the public or the private hospital.
Free health care access will be costly at first, but by using NP’s, PMHNP’s and PHN’s in each school where prevention interventions will be managed, the long-term benefits will even out. If each child has at the least annual screening for; mental health needs, obesity prevention, diabetes, cardiac issues related to sedentary lifestyles, a lot of expensive healthcare needs

will be prevented. The school nurse would also give the routine immunization, able to assess and treat common illnesses. That initiative would help keep down unnecessary emergency room visits for school-age children, saving taxpayers money.
Rhode Island already came up with a useful method of keeping non-urgent medical care out of the emergency room saving taxpayers a substantial amount of money.

They have a nurse-run extended hour clinic that treats common illness. They use the rapid test to rule out or to help diagnosis thing such as strep infections, pregnancy, flu, diabetes or even cardiac issues by utilizing an EKG machine (Bicki et al., 2013, p. 1042–1049).
Affordable Care Act
The Affordable Care Act (AFC) did many great things for the uninsured and underinsured. One thing that the AFC did that help Americans across all social-economic boundaries was preventing insurance carriers to deny or increase costs to people with pre-existing conditions. Another great thing that the affordable care act did was give access to mental health services that otherwise could not afford it. However, the AFC did have its drawbacks, not everyone was able to pay for the co-pays or afford the deductibles, and a lot of providers did not accept the insurance.
Pinpoint a social, economic, technological, ethical, or legal issue that could, or has, affected health care delivery in the United

States.

A social issue that could affect health care delivery in the united states is mental health care. Substance abuse is of epic proportions right now in America. Our jails are overcrowded, with 47.5% of the 1,505,400 prisoners in the United States are there for drug offenses compared to just 7.7% serving time for violent crimes (Carson, 2018, table 12). There were over 64,000 people who died of an opioid-related overdose in 2016 ("Overdose Death Rates," 2017, para. 1).
The latest statistics show that in 2015, over 702,000 children that were victims of maltreatment. And 427,910 children in the foster care system ("Child Welfare/Foster Care Statistics," 2017, p. 1). These numbers are expected to increase correlating to the increased number of drug-related overdose deaths.
A recent article I was reading claims that there are approximately 9,000 child and adolescent psychiatrist, and there is a current need for 30,000 more (Chamberlain, 2018, p. 1). This article helps support my issue of mental health need in the healthcare delivery, in fact, I believe they are underestimating the number of mental health providers that are needed. There is an enormous need for mental health access for our youth, and there will be even a greater need in the coming years. Today’s children have access violent video games, music that promotes violence, online friendships are replacing actual friendships and sadly less than half come from a two-parent family.