Taylor Cross Source 4

Q: Should the government pay for healthcare for its citizens?

Lutz, Sandy. "Happy Together:Consumer Expectation for a Public-Private Healthcare System." Journal of Healthcare Management 53.3 (2008): 149-52. Print.

My third source primarily talks about the how the cost of healthcare has ultimately turned into a wast of money. It talks about the different kinds of waste we see in the healthcare system, including: behavioral, operational and clinical. All of these added together put the estimate of waste at $1 trillion dollars. If we are able to decrease the waste of money through the consumers and the government we may be able to find a solution to help make the healthcare programs work.

My thoughts on this whole article are mainly just about why we have let it grow this far. This source could possibly change my thinking if there we actually made the effort to reduce the waste. I would be all for providing healthcare for every citizen in the United States if we could find a way to cut down the money we spend on healthcare. But as of right now, the people that have money are paying ridiculous taxes in order for us to keep providing the healthcare we do for everyone.  I guess the most irritating part is that the citizens are relying on the government to fix the problem and the government is relying on its citizens (taxes) to fix the problem. We are in a spiraling debt that we can't get out of. Our problem is thinking that we have the money to keep going on the way that we are.

Putting this source into conversation with my other sources is kind of difficult. This new source poses statements about the wastes and all the costs we are spending and states about how we may possibly fix the problem. While other sources have states many reasons on how we should fix the problem and spoken about adopting different healthcare plans, this source talks about keeping the same plan and making internal changes, therefore we would save money by keeping the same plan instead of changing the one we have adopted and losing even more money than we already have.

Some questions that have arose from reading this article are, what are we going to do to reduce the waste (spending)? With that another question arises, we have a problem of blaming the government and the government has a problem with putting the blame on the citizens but whose job is it to fix the problemm? I thin we are too busy pointing fingers instead of, like the title says, coming together to fix the problem and save money.