Brasfield Chapters 6-10

With our current system of national health care, there are many problems that need to be addressed if this current model is going to survive. Some people say that the current model should just be thrown out and we should start over from scratch in order to solve some of the new problems that are being discovered almost every day. I think the old system needs to be adjusted but not completely thrown out. It has served our nation well for the past couple of decades, and I believe it can be tinkered with enough to help iron out the problems that we are encountering right now. One of the main problems that needs to be solved, in my opinion and a lot of people around the country, is cost control. As stated in this book, the United States spends the most of any developed nation on health care, yet receives the least from what we spend. That needs to change if national health care is going to continue to exist in our country the way it is now. And if a good solution is not figured out for cost control, then I believe the system is too flawed to be changed enough to be saved and needs to be thrown out. Cost control could help solve many of the problems we are trying to address right now, but so far a good solution has not been offered in order to fix it. That needs to be solved sooner rather than later, and I believe one of the only ways to do that is to gather the top officials from every major medical care sector in the same room as some of the political parties' top officials and make them stay there until a solution is agreed to. That is the only way we as a nation will not go bankrupt from health care spending, and that is the main problem that needs to be addressed as soon as possible.