Public Health Spending
Name
Institution
Public Health Spending
Alexis
To add on your point on the correlation between public health spending, one of the main reasons why the cost of public health seems to be higher than what is spent on public health is due to misappropriation and mismanagement of funds. Public health spending is meant to ensure that every individual has access to public health services such as immunizations and disease prevention measures.
You have made a good point on the improvements in public health with an increase in public health spending. To add to the advantages, public health workers benefit when there is an increase in public health spending (De la Maisonneuve, 2016). An increase in spending means that public health officers can get higher wages and better allowances. Public health spending also helps to improve health education within communities. Public health involves educating the proper about healthy living and ways to prevent infections.
Monica
As you mentioned, there are disadvantages to increasing public healthcare spending. I agree that federal healthcare spending has a direct impact on the public. Healthcare funding comes from taxes. Increasing healthcare funding, therefore, means that the American citizen will have to pay more in taxes (Marton, Sung & Honore, 2015). As much as increasing healthcare funding serves to benefit the citizens, an increase in taxation, especially for low-income earners, leads to lowered standards of living. To this extent, increasing healthcare funding does not work in favor of the people.
Can We Lower The Cost Of Healthcare?
Charles Spach
I think that your idea of patent protection would help to reduce the cost of healthcare. Maybe the government should also consider revising healthcare expenditure. Healthcare spending should focus on easing access to primary healthcare as well as ensuring there is proper infrastructure. Ensuring that money meant for healthcare is spent only on the relevant issues that affect the public rather than personal interests will help to reduce the cost of healthcare.
References
De la Maisonneuve, C., Moreno-Serra, R., Murtin, F., & Oliveira Martins, J. (2016). The drivers of public health spending: Integrating policies and institutions.
Marton, J., Sung, J., & Honore, P. (2015). Does more public health spending buy better health?. Health services research and managerial epidemiology, 2, 2333392815580750.