P2 Early Draft- Annotated Sources Timeline

  • "Challenges of Mixed-Economy Solutions in Healthcare: The Examples of Switzerland and Singapore"

    Singapore has managed to keep its healthcare costs in check while maintaining quality healthcare and insurance payment options while Switzerland uses third-party payers. By using third-party payers, Switzerland is having costs of healthcare skyrocket and the GDP cannot grow to match the costs.
  • "China's Healthcare Reform"

    China implemented a new healthcare system that would bridge the gap between the overpopulated urban hospitals and the isolated and under-equipped rural hospitals while keeping costs affordable.
  • "Get the Whole Picture"

    Hospitals annual waste millions, possibly billions, across the nation for miscommunication and redundant, unnecessary, and expensive procedures.
  • "The Affordable Care Act at Six: Reaching for a New Normal"

    The ACA was supposed to lower premiums by increased competition, which making access to decent and affordable healthcare by eliminating the pre-existing clause and expanding the coverage for those in the coverage gap.
  • "Medicaid's Role in Health Reform and Closing the Coverage Gap"

    The ACA dropped the nationally uninsured from 41.1 to 28.5 million within the states that it was implemented in, with others remaining uninsured because of lack of employer-based insurance and not enough annual income.
  • "Making Health Care Truly Affordable after Health Care Reform"

    The ACA is an imperfect system but the first step to getting affordable healthcare and discusses the proposals that those who oppose the ACA have offered.