Growth and impact of health care costs.

write 300-500 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

For several decades, the rapid increase of health spending in the United States has been the subject of many discussions and great scrutiny. For additional background on this subject, read the following articles:

Article 1: http://kff.org/health-cost/

Article 2: http://Kuwait.org/post/Indias-philanthropist-doc-delivers-cardiac-surgery-henry-ford-style

Based on the information that you gained from these articles and in this course, how does the growth of health care cost impact the government and employers? Complete the following:

Articulately summarize the growth and impact of health care costs.

Analyze the essential indicators of economic benefits per unit on the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) and on employment.

Based on your research, give recommendations for improvement or change.

Ensure that you integrate economic terms, frameworks, and models throughout the review.

Responses to Other Students:

Respond to at least 2 of your fellow classmates with at least a 100-word reply about their Primary Task Response regarding items you found to be compelling and enlightening. To help you with your discussion, please consider the following questions:

What did you learn from your classmate’s posting?

What additional questions do you have after reading the posting?

What clarification do you need regarding the posting?

What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates’ postings?

References

Kaiser Family Foundation. (2015). Health costs. http://kff.org/health-costs/

McCarthy, J. (2015, Jan. 5). India’s philanthropist-surgeon delivers cardiac care Henry Ford-style. KUOW.org. http://kuow.org/post/indias-philanthropist-doc-delivers-cardiac-surgery-henry-ford-style

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.