Health financial management discussion question week 9

“Capital Structure”  Please respond to the following:

• Create an argument for a publically traded health care organization to issue stocks or bonds as part of its capital structure. Provide support for your position. 
• Imagine that a publicly traded health care organization has just experienced a downgrade in its credit rating from a rating agency, such as Moody’s or Standard & Poor’s. Determine the most likely impact that this event would have on the publically traded health care organization. Indicate an approach that management could take to minimize the impact that you have determined. Provide support for your rationale.

“GDP and Health Care Trends”  Please respond to the following:

• Based on your research, determine the trend of health care spending as a percentage of U.S. GDP. Indicate the most likely drivers of the trend. Provide support for your rationale. 
• Predict the health care spending percentage of U.S. GDP over the next five (5) years. Indicate both the key driver of your prediction and the sustainability of the level of spending. Provide support for your prediction.