Writing Homework Help

After reading Mooney, Knox, & Schacht, Chapter #2, you have learned the following about the financing of American healthcare. Medicare is a federal funded program that provides medical insurance primarily to the elderly and disabled. Medicaid is a federal and state funded program that provides medical insurance to the eligible poor. The original Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the legislation to expand private medical insurance coverage to more Americans primarily by the “individual mandate” to obtain private medical insurance; creating medical insurance exchanges to purchase and compare private medical insurance, and expanding Medicaid. A single-payer system is publicly funded medical insurance, which replaces private insurance companies. In the reply box, describe the positive and negative aspects of a single-payer publicly funded medical insurance program.

Support your answer with information from chapter #2. Cite the information with the page number and textbook edition you are using, for example (pg.100, ed.10).