Affordable Healthcare in the US

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Affordable Healthcare in the US
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Affordable Healthcare in the US
Functionalists claim that each component of the society, who are US citizens from
various walks of life, contributes to and is interdependent to the whole society. For instance, all
families pay taxes while the state offers education for the families’ children and utilizes the taxes
to run its operations (Bodenheimer, 2005). The perspective evades social change, propose the
status quo, and support that people take part to influence social change.
Seniors age 65 and older and low-income families with at least one child and whose family
income is below 133% of the federal poverty receive health insurance coverage from the pool of
funds from the federal and the national government (Claxton, 2008)... Though there is a conflict
between Medicare and other government agencies on who should be paying the premiums, the
government is dedicated to paying premiums for the seniors. Conflict perspective is based on the
negative feature of the society that initiate influences its stability.
Children younger than 18 years and college students are supposed to receive health services from
the premiums paid by their parents. The first Affordable Care Act fact claims that the cost of
health care has reduced dramatically. The slowdown of the cost is caused by the recession. Also,
chance might have slowed the cost. A shred of evidence states that the law influenced the
modifications in the way of delivering medical services. The other Affordable Care Act fact
argues that the law's long-term achievement at managing costs will be the hinge on its struggles
to alter the strategies of delivering healthcare. However, little attention has been paid to its
efforts. Some of the efforts managed are enforcing penalties to hospitals with extreme rates of
avoidable infections and distributing medical homes. The third ACA fact states that the law
entails insurers to use between 85% and 80% of each top dollar to pay for medical services. This