Universal health care is needed and has been an ongoing issue for many years, but it is often met with opposition when brought to legislative officials (Kilgour, 2015). While legislative officials have been trying to adopt universal health care coverage since before the PPACA went into effect in 2010, they have been met with major resistance. During these times when universal health care legislation was attempting to become passed, a number of other programs started becoming active. One such program is the State Child Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which provides health care benefits to American and immigrant children up to 19 years old (Kilgour, 2015). Additionally, the Veterans Administration and Tricare for military personnel and families was created to allow health care to become utilized by these individuals (Kilgour, 2015). All of these programs are funded by the federal government with additional funding from state government (Kilgour, 2015).
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During that era companies were more unionized, the union was more assertive and demanded better health care benefits for employees (Kilgour, 2015). Unfortunately, nowadays consumers that purchase private health care still have to pay substantial out of pocket expenses for their health care services (Knickman & Kovner, 2015). Which is why many decide not to use their health insurance because they do not want to pay the sky high
During that era companies were more unionized, the union was more assertive and demanded better health care benefits for employees (Kilgour, 2015). Unfortunately, nowadays consumers that purchase private health care still have to pay substantial out of pocket expenses for their health care services (Knickman & Kovner, 2015). Which is why many decide not to use their health insurance because they do not want to pay the sky high