Discuss a curent government healthcare program

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For this assignment, complete Part A, Part B, Part C, and Part D as follows: Part A: Visit a government healthcare website and briefly discuss a current government healthcare program. Discuss at least three facts about this program. This information can be found on the government healthcare website, your textbook, or web resources. Part B: How would a functionalist, conflict theorist, and interactionist explain the government healthcare program discussed in Part A? Part C: Explain how two or more social structures (statuses, roles, groups, social networks, and/or social institutions) affect one’s access to quality and affordable health care in American Society. Part D: What are your personal beliefs about the current American healthcare system? In your discussion, explain how at least two groups you belong to (e.g., family, gender, race, class, religion, and politics) influenced the development of your beliefs concerning our current healthcare system. For this assignment, ensure you follow the requirements below: 1. Answer ALL the questions listed in Part A, Part B, Part C, and Part D in your assignment. 2. Please answer the response questions in essay-style format. You will not be rewriting each question and answering it. You will be creating an essay that addresses the response questions. 3. Use sociological terms and concepts from the textbook reading in your essay to demonstrate you understand and can apply the concepts.

The essay should be three to four pages and should use the following APA style components: APA style title page, doublespaced, 1-inch margins, and 12-point font.

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Running Head: MEDICAID

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Medicaid
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Institutional Affiliation

MEDICAID

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Introduction

Medicaid has helped millions of Americans access affordable health coverage, including
people who are disadvantaged in certain ways like the elderly, pregnant women, the blind, and
those with disabilities. It is arguably one of the most successful social plans that the US has ever
had. Despite all these goodies that the program brings to the millions of low-income earners, it
has never been as popular as it should be. It is hated both by the government authorities
administering its execution and the health providers who claim it pays minuscule amounts of
money. Today, one in every five Americans benefits from the program every year (Huberfeld &
Roberts, 2014). The current paper examines some fundamental facts about Medicaid and looks at
various perspectives and social structures that affect the accessibility of the program.
Facts about Medicaid
As of 2017, Medicaid is the largest funder of health services for around 74 million
Americans with relatively low incomes (Malina, Morrissey, Hamel, Solomon, Epstein, Campion,
& Drazen, 2017). Managed by the states, it is funded by both the federal and state governments.
Eligibility is determined by the states. It is worth noting that poverty alone is not enough to
warrant the admissibility for the programs as other factors have to be considered. Nonetheless,
the Affordable Care Act significantly broadened the program’s eligibility, as well as federal
funding (Rosenbaum, 2011). However, many states retained the original eligibility standards and
hence continued r...


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