In the US, an average person spends about $11,582 on healthcare. Healthcare in the US is too confusing and health insurance doesn’t cover outside of the US. In healthcare, there is a lot of corruption regarding health insurance companies over the years, and healthcare is also expensive for low-income families in the US. Tikkanen and Issitt both have wrote on the topic of healthcare, are both are very educated on the topic of healthcare. Tikkanen and Issitt both reason that healthcare is unfavorable if people look at all the other countries healthcare systems. They also explain how health insurance also doesn’t aid the cost of healthcare in general. First, health insurance is a difficult concept for a variety of different reasons. America is …show more content…
Medicare is so underregulated and even will Medicare many Americans are still uninsured. The uninsured rate has gone down, but its still bad. Issitt noted that “Other major issues facing the Medicare system are rapidly increasing healthcare and medication costs, Medicare fraud--which amounts to billions of dollars each year--and an inability of politicians and the public to choose and implement improvements to the system.” (Issitt). This evidence by Issitt indicates how corrupt Medicare fraud is. Medicare fraud is now even a billion dollar industry every year, yet not many people are speaking out on the issues. Medicare’s negative impact also raises the prices of regular healthcare, so later most people will be on Medicare because the prices are too high. The government is mostly responsible for how corrupt the Medicare system is, yet it is still salvageable. They need a way to have a perfect limit of which people should or shouldn’t have Medicare and also stop the rise of healthcare. The government needs to set more rules so its easier to understand and they need to still help the uninsured people of America that also aren’t on Medicare. Issitt also observed that “Another major issue in the debate on Medicare is that of institutional accreditation. A single private organization, the Joint Commission, determines whether any hospital is able to provide Medicare coverage to clients, and some have argued that there needs to be a new system for determining accreditation of institutions and eligibility to provide Medicare coverage. Given the early twenty-first century crisis in Medicare financing and problems stemming from prescription drug coverage and eligibility, some believe that the system is beyond repair.” (Issitt). This evidence by Issitt reveals the issues in Medicare. Medicare coverage is confused and more rules have to be set for issues like prescription drugs