Two pages about: Rising Costs Healthcare USA

Rising Costs Healthcare USA

After reading Chapter 8 and watching “The Other Drug War” you have enough information to analyze what factors are contributing to rising healthcare costs. Also see specific US Healthcare Costs and Prescription Drug costs, both summaries on :

http://www.kaiseredu.org/topics/costs-and-spending

You may use other sources of information, remember to properly cite each.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/other/

http://www.ncsl.org/research/health/medicaid-pharmaceutical-laws-and-policies.aspx

https://www.cms.gov/research-statistics-data-and-systems/statistics-trends-and-reports/nationalhealthexpenddata/nhe-fact-sheet.html

http://kff.org/medicare/fact-sheet/medicare-spending-and-financing-fact-sheet/ link to open resource.

Use citations in the text of the paper and Works Cited at the end of the paper, APA style.

Criteria	Points	Score
Introduction/ opening statement: Define factors contributing to rising costs in the USA	2
Discussion/ description of issue How are healthcare costs measured, and how are these numbers increasing? What are the main areas of healthcare expenditures? Pharmaceutical companies- how do they justify their high prices? How is this contributing to rising costs? Cite evidence (facts and examples) to support your view	4
Concluding statement Make inferences-how is this relevant to health and healthcare Summarize your professional response and thoughts	2
Grammar/ Syntax/ Spelling Well written and well organized Work cited in text and referenced	2
Total	10