3,500 Caucasian and Asian students who applied were denied admission despite having higher academic and MCAT credentials than Hispanic and African-American students who applied at the same schools (Steinreich, 2004). Instances of action” or “affirmative other biased admission standards pose a stark affront to the quality standard that is supposedly upheld by the AMA. The exclusion of qualified students due to their not being a certain ethnicity leads to the conclusion that political, rather than academic considerations have been chosen by the AMA as the criteria for medical school admissions. This would not occur on the free market. IV. Health care conclusions In the United States, private health care systems have not been seen since the late 19th century prior to the effective unionization of the medical profession and its physicians. It is difficult to compare the effects of that period with the present health care dilemma because of the complexity of institutional changes and the dramatic advances in medical technologies and pharmaceuticals that have made many fatal diseases such as diphtheria, malaria, measles, and polio a thing of the past. However, the prices of health care have risen dramatically as well, far beyond inflation. As shown in Figure 1 from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, since 1990 has recorded a rise in Hospital “Outpatient Services” and Care Services” far beyond the Consumer Price Index. This leads “Medical to the conclusion that somehow the health care industry has seen skyrocketing prices.
3,500 Caucasian and Asian students who applied were denied admission despite having higher academic and MCAT credentials than Hispanic and African-American students who applied at the same schools (Steinreich, 2004). Instances of “affirmative action” or other biased admission standards pose a stark affront to the quality standard that is supposedly upheld by the AMA. The exclusion of qualified students due to their not being a certain ethnicity leads to the conclusion that political, rather than academic considerations have been chosen by the AMA as the criteria for medical school admissions. This would not occur on the free market. IV. Health care conclusions In the United States, private health care systems have not been seen since the late 19th century prior to the effective unionization of the medical profession and its physicians. It is difficult to compare the effects of that period with the present health care dilemma because of the complexity of institutional changes and the dramatic advances in medical technologies and pharmaceuticals that have made many fatal diseases such as diphtheria, malaria, measles, and polio a thing of the past. However, the prices of health care have risen dramatically as well, far beyond inflation. As shown in Figure 1 from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, since 1990 has recorded a rise in “Outpatient Hospital Services” and “Medical Care Services” far beyond the Consumer Price Index. This leads to the conclusion that somehow the health care industry has seen skyrocketing prices.
ASSC%202014%20Kyle%20Burko%20-%20Single-Payer%20Healthcare%20in%20America.docx