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List of current healthcare crisis or concerns:

• Commodity scarcity (some chemotherapy medications, organs for transplant)

• Growing of aging population

• Costs

• Access to healthcare by those experiencing poverty

• Access to healthcare by immigrants

• Staffing ratios for nurses

• Under- insurance

• Lack of coverage for long-term care

• Patient safety

• Changing of preventive care guidelines (i.e. changing age for women’s yearly mammograms; use or non-use of PSA)

• Increasing chronic illnesses

• Debate if healthcare policy should be controlled by federal or state governments

• Out of pocket expenses

• Increasing population and decreasing labor pool

• Prescription drug costs

• Uncertainty over Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

• Increasing consolation of healthcare facilities (e.g. larger hospitals acquiring smaller, private practices)

• Communicable, infectious diseases spreading globally

• Fragmented care

• Control over individual healthcare decisions (e.g. individuals, doctors, insurance companies)