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GenCo feels it has already squeezed margins as much as possible, and now is looking for new sales opportunities. MedCount turned to BCG to help identify potential ways to increase revenues. How would you approach this problem? * Establish Understanding of the case First, let me make sure I understand the problem. The parent company produces medical devices and services, but before the acquisition was not involved in health care software.
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They can raise prices at any point. However, I think that for our nation to move forward we need to limit the costs of health care. It should not be a completely profit driven industry which it is at this time. A change needs to occur to make the insurance companies focus on helping people rather than making money. All individuals should have access to health care including those who can not afford to pay for it.
Obama Care is all about fixing some of the flaws we have in our health care system, and making health care affordable for the public. Although we are the richest country in the world no many of us could afford necessary operations such as covering hospital bills for intensive care surgeries for ill babies, or bypass surgeries for coronary patients (Lawrence R. Wu, 001). If the plan goes into effect there will be decisions made by many to seek preventative care; that before it didn’t have health insurance and wouldn’t take the chance of being turned away or racking up medical expenses. Although having this plan would restrict some of the criteria insurance companies use in deciding whether or not to provide coverage for an individual or not in the end I
A single-payer healthcare is a system in which the government pays for all healthcare costs, which is also known as universal health care. Currently in the U.S., there are more than thousands of different health care organizations and billing agencies. A single-payer healthcare system would greatly cut down the significant amount of administrative waste generated today . However, there are some negative impacts on patients’ quality of care as well when implementing a single-payer system. For example, wait time will increase and everyone will need to wait to be seen .
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Because of tough competition, hospitals are investing heavily in new technologies to attract new patients. Reduced Medicare reimbursements and expenditures on the new techmologies significantly affect hospitals bottom line. It is imperative to understand the financial structure and financial management strategies to ensure fullest utilization of the available financial resources. Both Investors-owned and not-for-profit hospitals have several common elements of organizational structure, but vary significantly on financial structures. Government health care organizations such as Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have unique financial structure and financial management strategies to comply with the organizational objectives.
These people also say the American health care system is more aggressive and inventive in discovering new health care procedures and medicines than nations with government health care programs (Geyman, 2005). These people point out that Americans like the current health care system and do want government telling them which doctors and hospitals they need to see (Geyman, 2005). Studies, however, have shown that the United States is no longer leading the world in medical discoveries, that choice is available in government run health plans, and that services are equal to, and often better, than those available to the majority of Americans (Geyman,