Part 1
Notably, the cost of receiving healthcare in the United States has been on the rise in the recent years. It is, therefore, imperative that for the nation to address the problems associated with lack of sufficient healthcare there is the need to have caps on the skyrocketing nature of the healthcare costs (AHIP, 2016). The most notable areas where the rising costs have been detected include soaring costs of medical services, costly pharmaceuticals, unhealthy lifestyles, expensive medical technologies and the fee-for-service payment system whose only focus is on volumes instead of the expected value. It is worth noting that ...