HCS 440 Week 3 Individual Assignment Health Care Spending

Individual Health Care Spending Paper

Resource: Health Care Spending Paper grading criteria on the student website

Write a 1,250- to 1,750-word paper in which you explain your position on national health care spending in the United States. Include information on the following:

The level of current national health care expenditures

Whether the spending is too much or not enough

Where the nation should add or cut, and why

How the publics health care needs are paid for, such as being financed by various payers, while indicating the percent of total expenditures they represent

Provide a forecast of the following:

The future economic needs of the health care system

Why these needs must be addressed

How you envision these needs will be financed