A healthcare policy
A healthcare policy is a set of regulations and rules that are put in place to help in the conducting of operations that relate to healthcare providence for the patients. A policy in health care benefits in issues like chronic diseases, disability caused by illness, long term care for the terminally ill and the aged suffering from illness, financing of the health care and mental health care. In the United States, for instance, after the elections of 2012, which saw to the election of Barack Obama as the president, there was developed a health policy. The new system on healthcare consisted of covering more percentage of the Americans. The medical system was supported more by the conservatives in the political realm of the United States. The medical cover consists of universal healthcare policy. Other politicians like the republicans, however, were more in support of the privatization policy of public health that consisted of letting the capitalist market to control the healthcare sector. Some of the Republican supporters of the privatization policy include Mitt Romney.
The conservatives of America believe that the universal healthcare policy will cause the country more harm than good. They think that the system will create a significant burden financially to the federal government. Tennessee, one of the states in the US, has up to 93 of its citizens insured. The country is, however, on the verge of bankruptcy due to this approach since most of the needy patients get their financial assistance from the nations Medicaid program. Using the case of Tennessee, politicians in the United States are using it as an example to vote against the implementation of the universal policy.
The issue of healthcare has created a lot of attention in the political arena. The politicians in the United States are trying to develop healthcare policies that are dependent on their own beliefs. President Donald Trump, for instance, the former secretary of HHS Tom Price, are politicians who are focusing on the value-based care and one that consists of transparency when it comes to the pricing of drugs. In 2018, President Donald Trump revealed the American Patients first plan. The plan includes the patients being in a position to access medications at a lower price. According to the president, this policy will help in reforming the costs of medicines between the drug companies and the manufacturers. Trump ensured that the drug manufacturers post the costs of their medication as they advertise them to the public. This way, the prices will be lower for the consumers as the companies try to rise above the competition levels.
The government of Donald Trump has also seen the dismantling of the Obama care that consisted of the universal healthcare policy. The Government of the United States at the moment requires that all the employers provide healthcare insurance to their employees and people with no insurance cover need to acquire the coverage or they will suffer tax penalties for not having the insurance. Insurance companies will be forced to offer a wide range of policies to the public, and the smallest packages provided by most of the healthcare policies are abolished in the states of the US. The government of America under trump is supportive of healthcare by ensuring that deductions are made of health insurance on every person’s tax returns.