Initiative Planning

Running Head : INITIATIVE PLANNING

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Initiative Planning

Introduction

Healthcare is a debate found in many countries with government being asked by its citizens to provide the service free while the private sector saying citizens should pay for it . Every person is entitled to basic health care thus it should be easily accessible and affordable It is believed that the duty of every government to ensure that its citizens have access to vital resources such as health care . Health care is a resource

that should be available to everyone whether they can afford to pay or not

The US healthcare system has both private and public insurance plans The government runs two schemes known as Mediaid and Medicare . The other schemes are privately run and consist of privately purchased health insurance (Uretsry , 2005 . Medicare is a plan for the aged and the disabled . The other government funded plan Mediaid , targets certain population groups like children and cancer patients

The healthcare system in America is tugged by inefficiency , run away administrative costs , wastage and duplication of issues among other things . The US government spends about 13 of GDP on health care . This is too much compared to its counterparts in Europe who spend about 6 .5 - 10 of GDP on healthcare . In Europe about 70 - 90 of the population is covered by health care while in the US , only 40 of its population is covered by healthcare . Research also shows that Americans do not live as long as Europeans and that their mortality rate is higher (Gauthier et al , 2005

The sorry state of the health system has made the office of the governor concerned and hence create an action plan on how to tackle the problems faced by this vital service . The following is the proposed plan that will try and make health care a reality for the people of this state

Reducing Employer Cost

The population of most countries is growing and this is putting a strain on health care systems the world over and especially their financing . In the US , national health expenditures are predicted to reach 2 .8 trillion in 2011 with an growth rate of 7 .3 annually . This is going to be impossible to fund using both private and public funding Rising costs are being caused by growth in population , inflation and more people having access to health care , complexity of treatment and cost of drugs (Stanton , 2002

Various strategies have been used worldwide to keep down the cost of health care . These include employer contribution methods , cost sharing mergers , competing among public hospitals and many others . To reduce on costs , employers will be allowed to choose from various schemes so that they choose the scheme that best suits them financially and the nature of their workers . Employers will be expected to contribute to the health savings account if it has temporary workers or an insurance policy for its permanent workers (Goldsteen Goldsteen , 2006 . Employers will not be allowed to have employees...