National Health Insurance Failure

Perspective: Learning from Failure in Health Care Reform

The Costs of Failure: Economic Consequences

From 1906 -1994 the US tried innumerable times to pass different versions of NHI and failed. Ultimately, some of what was attempted was passed with the Social Security Act, Medicare, Medicaid, CHIPs, and a host of other programs. Much was included in the ACA, with some aspects removed in the Trump years. Efforts are now underway to improve the ACA, and we have gone full circle to today.

Report on the major attempts to enact National Health Insurance.

Include the following aspects in the assignment:

Write an introductory paragraph into the template (download it, save it, and name it so you can find it).

The introductory paragraph should contain a summary of the problems in passing National Health Insurance.

1st level two heading: Summary of NHI (use bolded words here as the heading) (summarize in your own words what it is and what it would contain).

2nd level two heading: Attempts at NHI (use bolded as the heading) (include at least three Acts during the 1900s that tried to include NHI, use the section in the chapter).

3rd level two heading: Pros and Cons of NHI (share what you have learned about the path to NHI, what you agree and disagree with).