Question

Explain 4 main reasons why the attempts to pass national health insurance legislation in the US have failed.

Answer 1

Some of the reasons for the failure of national health insurance legislation are

• Great Depression, which made blue cross to meet the needs of a middle class family that the pressure on government will decrease
• Political issues ,where spending a lot of finance on the can affect the reforms to be done in other department like education
• Individuality:The Americans wish to make decision on self in regards to the selection of the type of insurabce scheme they want
• Nearly 85 percentage of the people are almost covered with insurance ,any change in the scheme can be a loss ,this acts as a trigger of fear and leading to failure to pass national heakth insurance legislation
• Expensive,health insurance which are non functional
• Great difference in pricing system
• The income of the physician are very high
• The high earning of the the pharmaceutical companies