Healthcare Policy and Law

Running head: HEALTHCARE POLICY AND LAW
Healthcare Policy and Law
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author note

1HEALTHCARE POLICY AND LAW
Discussion 1)
The Affordable Health Care Act is the most essential care legislation in US since the
creation of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965 (Hilgeman et al. 2016). At the same time, the
reformation was designed to improve the accessibility, quality of the services and the
affordability. It has to be also noted that the healthcare costs had risen rapidly for decades
because of the economical changes. Two examples negative outcome of this inclined changes
can be found from the current social infrastructure. Ten millions of Americans were
uninsured after the initial imposition of Affordable Care Act, which clearly indicates the
importance of the reformation. As another example the declination of uninsured population
can be considered. In 2009 the uninsured population was 43% that came to 9.1% in 2015
(Sommers et al. 2016). It clearly indicates the accessibility and the political compatibility of
this reformation.
The conflicts of a free market healthcare system and single payer government system
can be conceptualised with a monopoly and oligopoly market agreement in healthcare
provision. A singly system, where government will bureaucrats will only cause long wait
time and limited services. As an example, the post office can be considered, where lack of
competition is continuously reducing the potential service quality and consumer satisfaction.
As another example, the winter’s serious flu epidemic of Britain can also be taken, here the
single player system has completely field to provide adequate infrastructure (Mechanic,
2015). Therefore, there should be no doubt on choosing a competitive healthcare market over
government bureaucracy. Hence, a competitive market where government could impose
pricing and administrative policies can provide better choice and affordability to the citizens.
Discussion 2)