What are the costs and issues surrounding health care policies in the US?

1. Health Care: Reducing Costs
AGENDA
 Please turn off phones and put
them away.
 Attendance
 Circle up, review and discuss
responses from last week’s
deliberation for participation.
 Health Care Costs
 Next Class: Bring NIF Booklet
Health Care and be prepared to
deliberate the three options.

2. Discussion
Circle up, review and discuss responses from
last week’s deliberation for participation.

3. How does our health care compare?
 http://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahjewell/brits
-tried-to-guess-the-cost-of-american-
healthcare#.vdj52KOvx

6. Health Care: The Costs
Increasing Costs
 Costs for health care are constantly going up.

7. Health Care: The Costs
 Prescription drug
costs are
skyrocketing because
of increased drug use
by an aging
population,
aggressive marketing
to physicians and to
consumers onTV.(25%
of patients ask for an
advertised drug and most
often get it.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuxEAakLDHo

8. Health Care: The Costs
Less money
 Business and companies and institutions are
cutting health benefits
 Lowering taxes means state budgets have
less money for health care benefits for state
workers and the poor.
 http://www.cnbc.com/2015/01/08/workers-
squeezed-by-health-insurance-costs-
report.html

9. Treatment is Expensive
 Heart conditions $193
billion - 1 in 3
Americans
 Diabetes $176 billion
 Cancer $157 billion
 Injuries $136 billion
 Obesity $147 billion
 Back problems $96
billion
 Joint disorders $80
billion
 Asthma $ 80 billion
 Mental disorders $58
billion
 High blood pressure
$40 billion
 Child-birth $35 billion

10. Health Care: The Costs
Aging Population
 Between 2010
and 2050 the
population over
65 will double.
Medicare
spending rises
with age.

11. Who uses health care?
Chronically and severely ill people account for
the most costs
 5% of the population is responsible for 50% of
all medical costs.
 1% accounted for 21% of the costs

12. Who gets health care?
Public attitudes toward certain groups affect
public health care policies.
 Elderly, children, and pregnant women are
seen as deserving public health care.
 Obesity, drug addiction, diseases of poverty,
and mental health illnesses are seen as less
deserving, and sufferers should pay for their
own care.
Study by Gollust & Lynch 2010

13. Who deserves health care?
 Sing AlongTime
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2xv3zi5
E-I

14. Our role in our health care
 Another approach to health care
 https://www.ted.com/playlists/199/take_char
ge_of_your_healthcare

15. Next Class 10/29
Deliberation on health care costs. Bring your
Deliberation Booklet: Health Care: How CanWe
Reduce Costs and Still Get the CareWe Need?
Coming up:
 1. Local Government Reflection due 11/17
 2 Policy Paper due 11/24