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Final Information Effect 1
increased health care prices are negatively affecting the middle class and therefore causing an
Focusing particularly on the exponentially increasing costs of medical health care, the
issue is viewed by many to be an imposed taxation upon one’s freedom and ability to afford the
right to be health and happy. Similarly, those who pay a substantial amount in taxes are feeling
particularly unrecognized in the decision to make affordable health care only affordable to those
who do not pay as much in tax and also get medical care for little to nothing. The rise in health
insurance costs can be attributed, but not limited to: over analyzing, new technologies, and
efficiency standards. Many of the rising costs in health care can be accredited to doctors making
examinations and running tests that the patient does not necessarily need. The result of this can
that consumers have to pay. Similarly, there are near monopolies on many of the new
technologies and drugs being developed and produced in the United States. Because of the
increased technology, the price has inevitably also increased. While many patients feel as though
they are being taken care of best when their doctor runs every test in the book, the actuality of
the situation is that doctors are paid on a fee-for service system, meaning that they are often
times running too many tests on their patients, conclusively resulting and attributing to the rising
costs of health care (Scutti). Furthermore, increased health related insecurities by citizens of the
United States can be held responsible for the heightened prices in medical health care. By taking
apropos to reasons for increased spending due to medical tests, drugs, and over testing for
illnesses. With an increased spending on research and development, the price of such tests and
treatments have also gone up, resulting in the raised prices for these services for American
citizens.
deductibles, the actuality of having ‘affordable’ health care is beyond realistic. Journalist Arthur
Tacchino writes:
“many premiums have risen since 2010 due to plans and carriers adapting to the
elimination of several cost- containment strategies that they have used in the past, such as
annual and lifetime limits on benefits, cost sharing, referrals, and pre authorization for
The accuracy of this argument is pertained to the idea that affordable health care was meant to
be affordable for everyone, yet has become the exact opposite of the imposed situation. While
middle class citizens pay their taxes and support the Affordable Care Act, they are indirectly
being punished for qualifying to pay taxes and contributing to the institution that, in turn, does
not help them pay for their own medical health care. Furthermore, the concept of affordable
health care, is in fact the fundamental ideal to provide healthcare for those that need it most.
What government issued health care has imposed on those who at one time could afford medical
health care, now are being deemed as those to be charged the most in a ratio compared to
economic advantage and affordability. The two comparisons in juxtaposition against the
considerable difference in socio economic development between the class structure validifies the
argument that considerable measures have been taken to further remove the middle class from
the equation and place them below the equality standard upheld for those in the lowest economic
class. In doing so there becomes a discrepancy in direct relation to the ability of economic
freedom permitted to those who are contributing to the fundamental economic structure of the
country.
(PEW Research Center), and furthermore are large contributors to the economy of
this nation. This informational graph shows the situation regarding the middle
class’ status throughout the past decade. With an increasing wealth gap, middle
class citizen are becoming apart of the income trends regarding the large gap
between the upper class and the middle class. This is affecting the overall
economy and political agenda of the government by a means of the rising costs of medical care,
and why these rising costs are becoming more and more unattainable. As seen in the graph, the
evidence can be considered a pivotal change in the direction of affordability and can be applied
to the concept of affordable health care through a means of identifying the reason for increased
wealth gap issues. Correspondingly there is also sufficient evidence to support the idea that this
is not a sudden movement towards increased medical health care but a gradual increase in result
Conclusively, the logistics of affordable health care are in no way lacking in complexity.
The foundation of the American government is meant to uphold the standard of ensuring that
majority does not always rule. This however, has lost the resonating patriotism amongst those
who are affected most by its lack thereof. Affordable health care cannot come at the cost of the
many in order to support the few, the economic research behind this upholds the standards that
the current healthcare situation has actively increased health care prices, making it unaffordable
to those on the lower end of the middle class, as well as incorporating more economic issues into
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