Discussion: "Financing Healthcare and Public Health Insurance"

Please respond to the following:

• Defend or critique the primary alternative sources of healthcare funding in the United States. Analyze the main effect on the resource owner of one of the following means of financing healthcare: insurance premiums, tax subsidies, and mandated benefits. Provide at least one example which illustrates the selected effect to support your response.

• Analyze the key types of policies required for the delivery of a public health insurance program, and hypothesize their main effects on the achievement of social goals overall. Provide at least one example of such effects to support your response.