Q:Should the government have to pay for healthcare for all of its citizens?
Miller, David. "Value-Based Pricing." Pharmaceutical Medicine 1 Jan. 2012: 217-22. Print.
In summary of my fifth source, it talks about how the US and the UK are adopting similar healthcare programs for their country. The source talks a lot about Value-Based Pricing or VBP (hence the title of the article) which is a way to improve both sides of the healthcare debate, the costs and the quality of care. It goes on to talk about the different things that both countries are doing to improve healthcare but also lists how they differ. The United States is clearly one of the biggest spenders and we are looking at ways to change the system, to save money and improve healthcare without making our citizens pay more.
Since my topic is mainly on how the United States is going to go about healthcare issues i tried to ignore the parts about the United Kingdom a little more. At the same time though i thought it was very insightful to see what another country was doing in order to compare it to the US. While they are similar and all we are the country that spends the most most on our healthcare which provide very few benefits to our citizens. It is actually proven that we have spent more on our health than we have on our food. I really liked this article because it was more insightful and informative than the last few that I have read. This source spoke a little more on the things we were trying to do to fix the problem rather than just bashing the system, I think it would be easier for me to say the government should pay for healthcare if they were actually providing benefits for its people but as of right now they are providing very little.
Synthesizing this source with my other sources is a little challenging. Looking at the big picture my sources all ultimately agree with each other on the fact that our healthcare system is very damaged if not, non-existent. All sources propose options and ideas that we could use to help change that and advance our healthcare. The government seems to want full control though, obviously for financial reasons, but through reading all of my articles it seems that the government is becoming hopeless in its efforts to control healthcare and is scrambling to find alternatives. The healthcare system that we have now has put us in a bind financially, bigger than its ever been. None of my articles really disagree with each other, they all recognize there is a problem and that it needs to be fixed.
This article actually posed some very helpful questions in its mass. It asked if the prices will go down? Will the quality of care change? etc. While these are all important questions they don't really help me answer my question. My question is, Should the government pay for healthcare for its citizens. I think I have done enough research and I'm ready to write my full paper on this topic through the questions I've asked in my past journal entries. I think you have to ask the wrong questions first to be able to get to the right ones and see which ones will actually help you answer your main question. With that, I think for my question its not WHAT i ask but WHO i ask. With a topic so controversial in our country, it really comes down to who has to deal with the controversy. That would be the citizens of the United States and the US government, so I think the question to ask is what they think should happen next?
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