Some of the key stakeholders encompassed in the act are as such the ordinary citizen who cannot afford the basic healthcare. Others include the government bodies like the finance and the health department for the provision of those services. The other major stake holder is the private health sector which should not be left out in the analysis of the ppaca. This act has seen some infighting amongst the congressmen but eventually it has sailed through to the presidential assent. However a journal published by the United States department of justice stated that most of the cases that were challenging the act were “unable to demonstrate any sufficient standing” united states department of justice (2011).
For instance, the healthcare reform, an aging population that relied on Medicare and Medicaid and state deficits, and the need for updated technology had impacted Swedish dramatically. By 2011, Swedish Medical Center was losing an estimated $250,000 a day. Swedish was in the midst of opening a new facility in an outlining area of the Seattle. The losses were not a reflection of the opening of a new facility but rather the changes in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements and the decline of health insurance. They had predicted a loss for the new facility within the budget but they were not able to predict the economic downturn.
Opening a satellite pediatric facility in Greenwood, Austria is a huge risk, the population is 9,569 people, and the population favors the elderly. Most of the population of people have very little education, and the hospitals have only on pediatric clinic, many of the family homes are of low income, and given the epidemiological data and demographic this brings many challenges when opening a new satellite pediatric clinic. Challenges faced when opening a new satellite pediatric clinic in
This system will be able to better integrate and coordinate the primary health care in local communities. The Australian health system is under strain. As we have heard from the AGPN, Australia has a large amount of users in the Tertiary sector and a large percentage of these have resulted due to a lack of correct intervention and management. With a 3 tiered health system, made up of primary, secondary and tertiary levels it has been shown that consumers are experiencing disconnected and fragmented care, under not just one system but many. This lack of continuity has been shown to lead to poorer health outcomes, as a result of late intervention, focusing on illness rather than wellness and as well as being frustrating to patients and their care providers it increases costs.
We are leaving in one of the most powerful nations in the world and we do not have a decent medical care system. I do not really understand how all this works but I see that in other countries people have more access to health care than here in the United States. In this country doctors and insurances are getting richer every day. In the other side, people are dying every day because they do not have money to pay for hospital and medicines. We need to reduce the medical care costs.
One primary factor is the population growth patterns. Currently the American population is growing older, which means there is both a growing need for nurses as well as the implication that the workforce of nurses is also growing in age, roughly half of the nurses being 50 years or older. In most professions the reason for shortage is more directly related a lack of qualified applicants to the profession, in the case of nursing it is more directly related to the colleges and universities cannot meet demands of an increased enrollment. The inability to increase the enrollment is secondary to a lack of resources to both teach courses as well as issues related to student saturation at clinical sites (Fox & Abrahamson, 2009). A third contributing factor is very interrelated to nursing education is that nursing education has shifted from hospital-based diploma programs to university and college programs.
Stakeholder’s contribute is very modest, when you look at the big picture, they are basically a small part of the complete total healthcare value chain. Also, in addition to doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, insurers, etc. The healthcare system is said to be complex due to the many different types of healthcare organizations and each has its own unique set of problems. With this being said 3rd party payers also complicate the health care system, by its influence on how payments is received and tracked. I think for the time being it is in fact unmanageable due to the significant challenges of who work in our large public health care delivery systems, political imperatives; resource constraints, sometimes rigid personnel systems,
Lack of chlorinated water, poor nutrition, deteriorating housing, and generally unsanitary conditions have increased the number of cases of infectious diseases, especially in urban areas like Havana. The major economic problems in Cuba were exacerbated by the demise of the Soviet Union and the ending of the five-billion dollar subsidies that the U.S.S.R. gave annually to the Castro government. Cuba made significant advances in the quality of health care available to average citizens as a result of these subsidies. The end of Soviet subsidies forced Cuba to face the real costs of its health care system. Unwilling to adopt the economic changes necessary to reform its dysfunctional economy, the Castro government quickly faced a large
A Policy Change to Address the Health Care Problem in the United States “8508 USD”, that’s the amount the U.S spent on health per capita in 2011. This is by far the highest spent per capita in the world, but it does not translate to the best health care system in the world. In fact a deeper look at the U.S. health care system shows that it an inequitable and inefficient system which places a heavier burden on the poor than on any other group in the country. The brunt of the high spending on health care is born by the low income earners in the country, leading to unequal health utility and a further increase in the already large income inequality plaguing the country. A change in the U.S. health care system to make it more equitable and efficient
Health care spending will grow at a rate of 6.7 per year from 2007 to 2017, and economic growth will slow to an average rate of 4.7%. The combination of these two factors will push the health care spending to 4.3 trillion by 2017 which will equal 20% of the country’s gross domestic product. The United States spends too much on health care. Researcher found that excessive spending comes from defensive medicine, such as redundant or unnecessary test and procedures, inefficient health care administration and the cost of care necessitated by conditions such as obesity. Inefficiencies in the health care system are: Behavior, clinical, and operational.