Chapter 19: Healthcare, the Environment, and Energy Policymaking
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Chapter 19:Healthcare, the
Environment, and Energy
Policymaking
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Healthcare
• Key indicator = Infant Mortality• Life Expectancy• U.S. spends more, as a % of GDP, than any
other nation (17%)• How do we do … ?
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Why So Expensive?
• Overbuilt medical facilities• Few Incentives to be Efficient– No ‘single-payer’ system; government, private
insurance, and individual out-of-pocket• New Drugs & Technologies• Malpractice lawsuits/insurance & “Defensive
Medicine”• Uninsured & Underinsured
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Evolution of Healthcare
• WWII: wage freezes led to healthcare benefits being added to employment as an incentive for hiring
• Medicare: ~43 million people/14%• Medicaid: ~43 million people/14%• Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP):
~11 million
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Quality of Health
• Income: 25% of those <$25,000/yr. uninsured• Race: 31% of Latinos, 19% of African-
Americans (twice infant mortality of whites), 15% of whites uninsured (+5 years of life expectancy over A-A’s)
• Age: 7 million children uninsured; 18-29 year-olds
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Poor Health = Increased Costs• Lack of Preventive Care = +25% risk of dying• Lack of Prenatal and Neonatal care• Children: lack of proper immunizations, Dental
care, prescription medication
For the poor with limited/no options, Medical Migration occurs (‘outsourcing’ medical care to foreign entities).
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The Affordable Care ActCoverage• Ends Pre-Existing Condition Exclusions for Children: Health plans can no longer limit or deny
benefits to children under 19 due to a pre-existing condition• Keeps Young Adults Covered: If you are under 26, you may be eligible to be covered under your
parent’s health plan• Ends Arbitrary Withdrawals of Insurance Coverage: Insurers can no longer cancel your coverage
just because you made an honest mistake.• Guarantees Your Right to Appeal: You now have the right to ask that your plan reconsider its
denial of paymentCosts• Ends Lifetime Limits on Coverage: Lifetime limits on most benefits are banned for all new health
insurance plans• Reviews Premium Increases: Insurance companies must now publicly justify any unreasonable
rate hikes• Helps You Get the Most from Your Premium Dollars: Your premium dollars must be spent
primarily on health care – not administrative costs.Care• Covers Preventive Care at No Cost to You: You may be eligible for recommended preventive
health services. No copayment.• Protects Your Choice of Doctors: Choose the primary care doctor you want from your plan’s
network.• Removes Insurance Company Barriers to Emergency Services: You can seek emergency care at a
hospital outside of your health plan’s network.
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ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
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Teddy Roosevelt• Encouraged the Newlands Reclamation Act of 1902 to promote
federal construction of dams to irrigate small farms and placed 230 million acres (360,000 mi²) under federal protection.
• Set aside more Federal land for national parks and nature preserves than all of his predecessors combined.
• Established the United States Forest Service, signed into law the creation of five National Parks, and signed the year 1906 Antiquities Act, under which he proclaimed 18 new U.S. National Monuments.
• He also established the first 51 Bird Reserves, four Game Preserves, and 150 National Forests, including Shoshone National Forest, the nation's first.
• The area of the United States that he placed under public protection totals approximately 230,000,000 acres.
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1970’s
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• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)– Nation’s largest regulatory agency
• Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)• Clean Air Act• Water Pollution Control Act• Endangered Species Act• Superfund– Fund, created by taxing chemical prodcuts, to
clean up waste sites• Nuclear Waste “NIMBY”• Global Warming
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ENERGY POLICY
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COAL: 90% of U.S. energy resources22% of energy used
48% of electricity created
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PETROLEUM: 37% of energy used57% of supplies imported
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• Strategic Oil Reserve: created after 1973 embargo; underground salt caverns along Gulf of Mexico
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Future sources/issues with oil exploration:
• Difficulty to find/access (muy expensivo)• Pipeline issues• Public lands• Offshore drilling
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NATURAL GAS: 21% of energy used
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NUCLEAR POWER: 21% of energy
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Concerns over nuclear power:• No new plants have been constructed since
1978 (‘NIMBY’)• Accidents: Three Mile Island, 1979;
Chernobyl, 1986
Also concerns over transportation, mining, disposal of waste
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RENEWABLE ENERGY: 6-10% of energy used
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Chapter SummaryHealthcare, environmental, & Energy policies all
share:• Concerns over human health & welfare• Requirements to expand the scope of
government• Highly technical: Does ignorance of technical
issues mean citizens cannot participate effectively in policy debates (anti-vaxx, global warming, nuclear power, fracking, etc.)?