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If expenditures on medical services are less effective in reducing mortality rates than are changes in lifestyle behavior, why does the U.S. continue to spend an increasing portion of its resources on medical care? Feel free to draw upon your own experiences as well as the Library or other resources to answer this question.

The United State maintains to spend an accumulative percentage of its income on health care because can help decrease administration spending, tweak the ability to bargain with pharmaceutical pricing, access to universal health care, generate a consistent standard of care, and provide health care planning that is more operational, fairness in the affairs of life and death, increased importance on primary and preventative health care and progress in population based health conclusions. After reading the list above, it can all be disputed that the spending is in order to decrease the percentage of mortality. But it cannot be overlooked the political advantage on can gain based on these factors.

Between the late 1960’s and mid 1970’s, the mortality rate of myocardial ischaemia drastically cut by over 50% due to changes in individual’s lifestyles (Journal of American Heart Association). It was very apparent individuals who were smokers and also the decline in the total blood cholesterol level. It is estimated that about 40% of the decrease in myocardial ischaemia can be traced back to the advancements in the medical treatment for myocardial ischaemia and also hypertension which is the top provider for this disease.

We have to realize that the full potential of the breakthroughs in modern medicine have not been reached and with that being said, we can only foresee mortality rates to continue to decline as the years pass us by. In spite of this, the comparative budget of the involvement of medicine and changes in