Health Care in the United StatesBy Lily Shale, Addie DeLuca, Catherine Boland & Katie

Plageman

Why we need Healthcare

• 17% of the population has no healthcare

• Different types of healthcare are Medicaid, Medicare, Tricare, Children's health insurance program, Veteran’s health administration

• The U.S citizen has to pay more for their healthcare than any other citizen of other countries

• Healthcare is a way for paying for medical expenses

The Big Problem

• Rising costs of health care have made the problem worse and get out of hand

• Medical debt contributes to 42% of all personal bankruptcy

• Ten years ago, the US healthcare system was declared "broken," and it has not improved.

• Lack of health insurance causes roughly 18,000 unnecessary deaths every year in the U.S

Paying for Healthcare

• Healthcare costs for a family of four have doubled in less than a decade from $9,235 in 2002 to over $19,000 in 2011

• Most expensive part of healthcare: physician costs represent 33% of a family's overall cost

• In 2008 the latest year for reliable statistics the US spent more that 2.3 trillion on healthcare, today the number has risen

Children's Healthcare

• Two examples of children’s health care programs are Medicaid and SCHIP

• Not all families qualify for services such as Medicaid if their income is too high, but too low for private insurance

• A child’s healthcare depends on their parents’ income

• More than 9 million uninsured children & millions more are underinsured

• 1 out of every eight children is uninsured

• Uninsured children miss more school and don’t do as well

• Uninsured children who don’t have coverage are less healthy- they need shots, regular check-ups, and dental care to stay healthy

Healthcare in numbers

Political Parties Support

Democratic- Republican-• being able to buy insurance across state

lines

• Tort reform (making it more difficult to sue doctors over malpractice)

Both Parties--outlawing discrimination against pre-

existing conditions

-allowing children to remain on their parents insurance up to age of 26

-ending the anti-trust exemption for health care insurers

•expanded coverage of Medicaid •individual mandate to have health insurance coverage•subsidies for the middle class who don't receive Medicaid but individuals that make less than $43,320 and families that make less than $73,240

How to fix Healthcare

• Employers will not be required to buy insurance for their employees, but large employers may be subject to fines if they don't provide insurance.

• The healthcare reform isn’t a government takeover like Canada or Britain

• Insurance companies will be regulated better

Fun Facts

• No one is proposing new benefits for illegal immigrants • The government-run Medicare program will keep paying

medical bills for seniors, but it will begin implementing cost controls on health care providers, mostly through penalties and incentives.

• The vast majority of people will not see significant declines in premiums

• 47 million U.S. residents have no health insurance, and the numbers keep growing

• Everyone will have to have health insurance or pay a fine, a requirement known as the individual mandate

Bibliography

• http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/spend.php

• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pagess/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/etc/graphs.html

• http://money.cnn.com/2011/05/11/news/economy/healthcare_costs_family/index.htm

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_the_United_States#Efficiency

• http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2010/mar/18/top- 10-facts-know-about-health-care-reform/