Public Health Class Analysis

As a Public Health major, it is required to take the Consumer Health and Public Health class. Before taking this class, I thought I will learn only about the issues that related to the food safety or regulation in this country. However, this class covered deeper than my expectation. This class did not teach me only about food safety or regulation, but it taught me about the health care management, health insurance, health services and products, doctor-patient communication, traditional vs. non-traditional medicine, diagnosis and treatment of chronic diseases, and health legislation. All the class lectures helped me to enhance my understanding in the role of U.S health care system that play to improve the health status of the U.S population. …show more content…
I understand that it is important to have the quality, cost, and accessibility to be balanced in the health care system. Indeed, there is an association between these three points of Iron Triangle. However, the health care in the United States is very expensive. Although the United States has Affordable Care Act to provide its citizen with an increased access to health care and the quality of health care, it still leaves 36 million people without health care coverage. Even though people can access to the quality health care in the U.S, it still leaves many people with medical debt. There are many consequences of having medical debt includes physically, mentally, emotionally, and economically. Therefore, medical debt is still a big problem in the United States and the health care system is needed to be changed for a better health outcome of the population in the nation. On the other hand, the United States is a freedom nation which people have the right to choose what is best for them and the government doesn’t have the right to decide for the