Question

1. List the main reason for the high costs of health care. 2. Why must the rising health care expenditures be controlled? 3. In broad terms, what does access to care mean?

Answer 1

Ans) 1) The two most-cited reasons for these increases were government policy and lifestyle changes. Government programs like Medicare and Medicaid have increased overall demand for medical services—resulting in higher prices.

2) Americans have to forgo other goods and services when more is spent on health care.
- Unless we control costs, total health care expenditures will far exceed what they would be under free-market conditions.

3) Within health care, access is always defined as access to a service, a provider or an institution, thus defined as the opportunity or ease with which consumers or communities are able to use appropriate services in proportion to their needs. Access has been conceptualised in numerous ways.