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Response1:

I agreed to the point that the high cost of healthcare is a problem for the citizens of America but I do not believe that it makes them criminal ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"MFQnbAgG","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Foutz, Artiga, & Garfield, 2017)","plainCitation":"(Foutz, Artiga, & Garfield, 2017)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":956,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/mlRB1JqV/items/8E2DMJ6J"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/mlRB1JqV/items/8E2DMJ6J"],"itemData":{"id":956,"type":"paper-conference","title":"The Role of Medicaid in Rural America","source":"Semantic Scholar","abstract":"This brief describes Medicaid’s role for 52 million nonelderly children and adults living in the most rural areas in the United States and discusses how expansions or reductions in Medicaid could affect rural areas. It shows: Rural populations face significant challenges to their health care coverage and access. People who live in the most rural counties of America are spread across almost 2,500 counties that are heavily concentrated in the South and Midwest. Individuals living in rural areas are less likely to be employed and more likely to be low-income than individuals living in other areas. Individuals in rural areas also face significant barriers to accessing care, including provider shortages, recent closures of rural hospitals, and long travel distances to providers.","author":[{"family":"Foutz","given":"Julia D."},{"family":"Artiga","given":"Samantha"},{"family":"Garfield","given":"Rachel Lynn"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2017"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Foutz, Artiga, & Garfield, 2017). It is true that even after the financing in Healthcare by the government, many people are unable to get the healthcare opportunities. Similarly, it is increasing the risks in healthcare because people who cannot pay the bills avoid visiting their physicians. They simply ignore their changes in health rather than going for bankrupt as you said. I also have an issue with the point where you said that insurance should not be free. Insurance is not free, everyone pays a specific amount to avail the opportunity in the form of cash or services they provide to the companies. The free insurance is only for those who cannot work like pregnant women, children, disabled and older adults. I do not think that there should be any issue to share wealth for such people in the form of healthcare cost ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"lOSHwod3","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Pacheco & Maltby, 2017)","plainCitation":"(Pacheco & Maltby, 2017)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":950,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/mlRB1JqV/items/5GPSBUTC"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/mlRB1JqV/items/5GPSBUTC"],"itemData":{"id":950,"type":"article-journal","title":"The Role of Public Opinion—Does It Influence the Diffusion of ACA Decisions?","container-title":"Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law","page":"309-340","volume":"42","issue":"2","source":"read.dukeupress.edu","DOI":"10.1215/03616878-3766737","ISSN":"0361-6878","journalAbbreviation":"J Health Polit Policy Law","language":"en","author":[{"family":"Pacheco","given":"Julianna"},{"family":"Maltby","given":"Elizabeth"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2017",4,1]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Pacheco & Maltby, 2017).

Response 2:

You have shared some critical facts regarding financing in health, insurance and ACA. Healthcare cost is a crucial issue for the American administration. They trying to provide best healthcare facilities by increasing investment ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"1UNAmQsS","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Blumberg, Holahan, & Zuckerman, n.d.)","plainCitation":"(Blumberg, Holahan, & Zuckerman, n.d.)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":954,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/mlRB1JqV/items/92FZ9LH2"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/mlRB1JqV/items/92FZ9LH2"],"itemData":{"id":954,"type":"article-journal","title":"The Healthy America Program","page":"24","source":"Zotero","language":"en","author":[{"family":"Blumberg","given":"Linda J"},{"family":"Holahan","given":"John"},{"family":"Zuckerman","given":"Stephen"}]}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Blumberg, Holahan, & Zuckerman, n.d.). Equal distribution of wealth and resources is the main purpose of the increase in tax. Therefore, I believe that if the lower class is getting benefits from an increase in taxes, then there should be no objection to the government policy. You have raised the issue regarding ACA that residents have to pay a penalty tax, which is correct. I want to highlight some more points regarding ACA like, various private companies give health insurance facilities to specific designation employees while the majority of low post employees cannot avail the opportunity which should be avoided and every employee should be treated equally ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"jPUJuVND","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Gabel, DiCarlo, Fink, & Lissovoy, 1989)","plainCitation":"(Gabel, DiCarlo, Fink, & Lissovoy, 1989)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":949,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/mlRB1JqV/items/BEBVQNDC"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/mlRB1JqV/items/BEBVQNDC"],"itemData":{"id":949,"type":"article-journal","title":"Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance In America","container-title":"Health Affairs","page":"116-128","volume":"8","issue":"2","source":"healthaffairs.org (Atypon)","DOI":"10.1377/hlthaff.8.2.116","ISSN":"0278-2715","journalAbbreviation":"Health Affairs","author":[{"family":"Gabel","given":"Jon"},{"family":"DiCarlo","given":"Steven"},{"family":"Fink","given":"Steven"},{"family":"Lissovoy","given":"Gregory","dropping-particle":"de"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["1989",1,1]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Gabel, DiCarlo, Fink, & Lissovoy, 1989). Same goes with self-paying residents who cannot avail insurance program and have to face high cost of healthcare.

References

ADDIN ZOTERO_BIBL {"uncited":[],"omitted":[],"custom":[]} CSL_BIBLIOGRAPHY Blumberg, L. J., Holahan, J., & Zuckerman, S. (n.d.). The Healthy America Program. 24.

Foutz, J. D., Artiga, S., & Garfield, R. L. (2017). The Role of Medicaid in Rural America.

Gabel, J., DiCarlo, S., Fink, S., & Lissovoy, G. de. (1989). Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance In America. Health Affairs, 8(2), 116–128. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.8.2.116

Pacheco, J., & Maltby, E. (2017). The Role of Public Opinion—Does It Influence the Diffusion of ACA Decisions? Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 42(2), 309–340. https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-3766737