¶ … stakeholders in " Chapter 4, Alignment with the rest of society " -- which stakeholder(s) do you think is the most important? Why do you think so? Please state your reasons in using one policy analysis example.
The most important stakeholders are the patients because they are the ones who pay or should pay for the service. But what they want does not matter because like most things in America, the choice is out of their hands. Health care is run by a cartel, just like the banking sector is run by the Federal Reserve cartel. Health care providers are subject to all manner of controls even though they run a private business -- the way they choose to conduct their business is largely out of their hands. They provide the services that individuals want or need -- but at the same time the bureaucracy involved within the health care cartel and the government and the law makers and the special interest groups all push the provider into a corner and take away the free market so that there is no real competition in the market place.
Policy "wonks" want a "system that is efficient, coherent, and rational and that provides effective care to the relevant populace" (McLaughlin, McLaughlin, 2014, p. 96). That system could easily be had if government and insurance companies did not get involved. Why are health care prices so high in America? What does it cost a day's wage just for the simplest check-up for a child? Does the education cartel have anything to do with it? (Why for example must doctors spend so much money on education when they can easily learn all they need to know on the job, in training? The answer is because colleges have to make money ... ). The simple reason why the system does not work is because the system is designed to fleece everyone. So while health care providers must "compete" with money (not from customers but from the State -- which is broke almost everywhere in...
Policy, Politics and Global Health Trends The Affordable Care Act The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was recently signed into law in America. This public policy impacts all citizens of the U.S.A. And has been controversial from its inception, not only because many people, who were promised by the President that if they liked their plan they could keep it, ended up having to get a new plan at a higher rate, but
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