Health Policy and Ethics: Analysis of Senator Lamar Alexander's Bill 133 and Healthcare Cost Reduction
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This paper analyzes Bill 133, sponsored by Senator Lamar Alexander in 2019, which aims to reduce healthcare treatment costs in the United States, particularly for Tennessee citizens. The analysis examines the bill's provisions through the lens of practitioner ethics, advocacy, and population health outcomes, arguing that implementation of these interventions would improve service delivery quality and health equity.
What this essay covers
- Introduction to healthcare cost challenges in the United States and Bill 133's purpose
- Detailed analysis of Bill 133's provisions including grant programs, cost-sharing interventions, and pricing limitations
- Advocacy implications and social determinants of health as factors affecting health outcomes and equity
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Over the past years, United States citizens have been facing severe challenges in covering the treatment costs in governmental and private health care services. The high costs of treatment in most states have made several individuals dig deep into their pockets to receive the hospitals' best treatment services. To intervene for the Tennessee state citizens, a republican sponsor, Senator Lamar Alexzander, came up with bill number 133 to lower the cost of health care on 19 of June 2019. The article aims to provide an in-depth, profound analysis of the bill by looking at the practitioner's ethics, advocacy, and the overall health of the population according to Alexzander's statement.
Bill 133 is one of the interventions aiming to change healthcare service delivery quality in the United States, not only in Tennessee State. The bill focuses on making changes in health services, costs, and care coverage. Similarly, the bill provides for establishing grant programs that can support the modernization of data and support vaccination services (Congress. Gov, 2019).
In the same record, both the emergency and non-emergency related scenarios, the bill advocates for network cost sharing intervention for the citizens. Additionally, the bill champions the provision of a list of services to the patient by the health care providers for billing within 45 days. On the same note, the bill has limited the pr4ices provided by the pharmacy benefit managers and health insurers.