- Complete the Module 3 Readings prior to working on this assignment. Document your thoughts as you read.
- Conduct additional research for the following issues. Use the resources at the Franklin University Library (Links to an external site.) to obtain at least three relevant, scholarly sources.
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Exhibit 7.9 in Understanding the U.S. Health Services System (4th ed.) by P. L. Barton indicates that sources of funds for select personal health expenditures vary considerably.
- What services are supported in large part by private health insurance? By the federal government? By out-of-pocket expenditures?
- What do these funding sources suggest about the population utilizing these services? What might they suggest about other populations or system factors?
- Total expenditures for health care in 2007 were 83 times the total expenditures for 1960, increasing from $26.9 billion to $2.2 trillion.
- What factors contributed to this increase?
- How much did each factor contribute to this increase?
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Exhibit 7.9 in Understanding the U.S. Health Services System (4th ed.) by P. L. Barton indicates that sources of funds for select personal health expenditures vary considerably.
- Write a three- to four-page paper, in which you address each of the items that you researched. Incorporate your notes from the readings as well.
- You must incorporate research into your paper from at least three relevant, scholarly resources.
- Follow all applicable APA Guidelines (Links to an external site.) regarding in-text citations, list of cited references, and document formatting for this paper. Failure to properly cite and reference sources constitutes plagiarism.
- The title page and reference list are not included in the page count for this paper.
- Copy the grading rubric for this assignment and append it to the end of your paper before you submit it for grading.
