Emmanuel first states that the Single-Payer Plan can have advantages such as taking out the middleman, lowering sales, marketing, and underwriting. And he notices that the current system is not doing the job but the following are the problems he sees with the Single-Payer Plans: 1.”it would preserve our dysfunctional, fee-for-service system of delivering health care without reliable instruments for assessing and improving quality of care, 2.total costs, including unchecked fraud and abuse are likely to be great, 3.lacks a credible plan for stemming health-care inflation over time, and 4.it is vulnerable to politicized decision making regarding funding and coverage”.
Emmanuel is saying that the liberals are supporting this Single-Payer Plan as the ideal for the universal healthcare enactment. But he also says that it is not addressing all the problems that are currently in our healthcare system now. The problem of “financing and delivery systems” needs to be taken care of. People who cannot afford their own health care and do not qualify for Medicaid are paying taxes for others to receive Medicaid when they themselves cannot get it. The delivery of medicine also needs to be reformed. The Single-Payer Plan does not fix this, it specifies more about acute illness where chronic illness seems to be the problem and what is not being covered/ is not affordable now. Another problem is that the decisions are too political (Emmanuel 686-690).
I think Emmanuel’s problems with the Single-Payer Plan are good to ponder. And makes me question: How can we make the universal healthcare system to be beneficial to those who truly do need, but not let it be taken advantage of? Can it really be affordable for everyone? Is there a solution to this problem of healthcare?
Emmanuel first states that the Single-Payer Plan can have advantages such as taking out the middleman, lowering sales, marketing, and underwriting. And he notices that the current system is not doing the job but the following are the problems he sees with the Single-Payer Plans:
ReplyDelete1.”it would preserve our dysfunctional, fee-for-service system of delivering health care without reliable instruments for assessing and improving quality of care,
2.total costs, including unchecked fraud and abuse are likely to be great,
3.lacks a credible plan for stemming health-care inflation over time, and
4.it is vulnerable to politicized decision making regarding funding and coverage”.
Emmanuel is saying that the liberals are supporting this Single-Payer Plan as the ideal for the universal healthcare enactment. But he also says that it is not addressing all the problems that are currently in our healthcare system now. The problem of “financing and delivery systems” needs to be taken care of. People who cannot afford their own health care and do not qualify for Medicaid are paying taxes for others to receive Medicaid when they themselves cannot get it. The delivery of medicine also needs to be reformed. The Single-Payer Plan does not fix this, it specifies more about acute illness where chronic illness seems to be the problem and what is not being covered/ is not affordable now. Another problem is that the decisions are too political (Emmanuel 686-690).
I think Emmanuel’s problems with the Single-Payer Plan are good to ponder. And makes me question:
How can we make the universal healthcare system to be beneficial to those who truly do need, but not let it be taken advantage of?
Can it really be affordable for everyone?
Is there a solution to this problem of healthcare?