Economics

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you address the following:

Provide an overview of how the Spanish Flu affected the U.S. health care system.
Compare how the Spanish Flu and the COVID-19 pandemic affected health care economics in the U.S. Use at least 4 of the following terms in your discussion:
Supply
Demand
Opportunity cost
Economy of scale
Value-based care
Productivity
Resource utilization
Behavioral economics
Benchmarking
Cost-effectiveness
Economic burden
Discuss how the U.S. health care system should be improved based on the information you have collected and the concepts you have learned in this course. Provide suggestions for how policy, processes, funding, and access can be improved.

Include at least 2 current, peer-reviewed articles in your paper.