The spending grew at an exponential rate nationally, while in recent years the growth in corporate costs slowed to a standstill (AFSCME, 2015). This has caused a downward trend in spending and is not sustainable for the future. Costs will be required to be cut by the hospital, which will cause difficulty in providing quality healthcare to all patients. Trinity Community Hospital ensures patient care is consistently high in quality and the service excellence is high priority for patients and staff. With values in service excellence, quality and safety, growth and profitability, and staff achievement, it’s important to remain knowledgeable of the national trends in healthcare as it may have a larger impact in how Trinity may deliver healthcare to the orthopedic, cardiovascular, and cancer centers.
First the pro side, the first main issue is the fact that the 32 million Americans that don’t have health care will now have access to health care coverage. Many Americans can’t afford health care coverage and this policy lowers the cost so that more Americans will have the opportunity to get the coverage they need. Another pro is that people with preexisting conditions can no longer be denied coverage. Insurance companies have been getting away with denying people the coverage they need because they either get sick or because they have a preexisting condition and this policy puts an end to all of that. Lastly, the amount of personal bankruptcies will be reduced.
The facility offers 140 patient rooms and 120,000 square feet to offer patients a full spectrum of cardiac care. Patient volumes have increased however profitability has dropped dramatically. This is primarily because of decreased reimbursement from Medicare, Medicaid, and managed care organizations. The hospital will be receiving $2,300,000 from Medicare and other managed care organizations (MCOs) in three months however the hospital must solve the working capital shortfall because it does not have enough money to sustain itself for three month. This simulation will examine ways to bridge a working capital shortage, possible funding options for acquiring necessary medical equipment, and additional funding options for capital expansion.
Healthcare costs have been on the rise for years as our population ages and lives longer. While reform is needed the so called savior of the healthcare system “Obamacare” is not only misleading but it is outright wrong. This system is actually just a way for the government to move money from one area to another that benefits them more instead of the people. Already the Obamacare system has taken billions of dollars out of the already hurting social security system and has redirected it to pay for healthcare of those that have never worked a day in their life and feel they are entitled to
California Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan Rhonda Barkey HCA 415 Community & Public Health Dr. John Moore July 9, 2012 Quality healthcare insurance can be hard to come by for a large majority of the American population. There are those who cannot get quality healthcare for reasons such as affordability or a pre-existing condition, but those that do have access to medical insurance, either through their employer or from a private vendor, are paying extremely high prices and oftentimes the benefits are limited. Our government, both local and federal, is spending billions of dollars every year to help individuals who have no access to healthcare. The red tape that one has to go through to get access to these government-funded
Individuals that can afford health care will unfortunately have to pay more to cover those that can’t. The 30 plus million Americans that currently have their own insurance plans, are now facing the unnecessary hardship of receiving cancellation notices due to their plans not meeting the “Obama Care” requirements. Which goes against the initial promise stated by President Obama “if you like your current plan, you could keep it”. As stated before, the money to cover health care cost has to come from someone, who? There’s no magic formula to solving the health care predicament facing a good percentage of Americans.
The issues that arise affect not only the family system but, especially with the expected growth of those diagnosed with the disease, society as a whole. With no cure available in the foreseeable future Alzheimer’s disease will become an epidemic in our country with the baby boomer generation aging and due to American’s longer life spans. The struggle for resources associated with the
AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE The Healthcare Industry is a 2.8 trillion dollar industry. From issues like personal bank-ruptcy, overpaid executives in the healthcare industry, inconsistent pricing from health care pro-viders and hospitals and patients not able to afford to have health care, there was a need for health care reform. Due to several inefficiencies that drove up the cost of healthcare, a reduced standard of care to patients, and Americans that could not afford to have health care, the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010. Some of the key goals of the ACA were to reduce the rate of health care spending and the burden it placed on families, businesses, employers and state and federal budgets as well as improving the quality of care provided to patients. One of the provisions in the ACA is that all Americans are required to have health insurance.
The United States spends somewhere around 56 million a year on asthma (CDC, 2014). It causes disruption in people lives from their day-to-day routine schedules. Asthma affects children by making them unable to attend school, which also makes them fall behind in their school work, and limits their participation in physical activities such as running, jumping or playing on the playground with other children. Adults are unable to work to generate an income to provide for themselves and their families, and it also affects the employer. It cost families more money because of medication and the unexpected visits to the emergency room, hospitalization, or doctor office to see a specialist.
Perspective on Health Care Lilian M. Padilla HCS/212 October 1, 2012 Elwanda Whitaker Health care services has changed tremendously over the years, from new medicines through new technologies, there is also more disease that have been discover and new cure for incurables diseases that have existed for many years even centuries where people died because there was no cure and because doctors did not know what the diagnosis was. The history of health care is very interesting to me in many ways because of how things have progress throughout the years. The advances that are not in place are very impressive but also very costly. Thanks to preventing care now patients do