Wherever our healthcare system is headed in the future especially during this public health crisis we are now facing, we should ask ourselves some important questions regarding the economic impact healthcare has on our lives. We are each a patient or potential patient, voter, or potential voter. We have a role in deciding what our healthcare system will look like in a year or ten years, but we also have a responsibility to figure out what we’re willing to do to get there.  Below you’ll find questions to consider as you figure out what kind of healthcare system you want in America.

1)Our system of health insurance is linked to employment. Coverage is usually provided by the employer, with some contribution from the employee. We now have many people working part-time, or freelance, or working through other non-traditional arrangements. Should health insurance continue to be linked to employers (our employer-based system) or is there another preferred approach?
2) According to a study in The Journal of the American Medical Association, nearly 40 percent of physicians have manipulated insurance reimbursement to receive needed care. For example, physicians have exaggerated patients’ symptoms to allow them to stay in the hospital longer and changed patients’ diagnoses for billing purposes. In our current healthcare system, is this justifiable or unethical?

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