HLT POL 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Prescription Drug, Palliative Care, Lyndon B. Johnson
17 Oct 2020
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Hlt pol 4071 week 2 chapter 3 reading. It is the nation"s largest economic sector, at . 5 trillion in annual costs and approaching 20% of u. s. It is a moral issue, given low-income americans" terrible health care outcomes, dragging the national average below other rich countries on most measures of population health, including maternal mortality and life expectancy at birth. It is a policy issue because every one of these dimensions (quality, costs, injustice) feed into heated congressional, white house, and state/local legislative discussions. And health care is, of course, a deeply personal matter: it is about the human condition, about wellness and suffering, sickness and death. The united states experienced furious debates about whether to cover all citizens through a government program (in the 1940s), even as most other wealthy democracies were organizing such programs. It deployed tax policy to foster a private, employer-sponsored health insurance coverage industry (1950s).
