Lastly, the amount of personal bankruptcies will be reduced. Many Americans file for bankruptcy because of their medical bills, if the rates go down and more people can afford coverage then it would make sense that the amount of bankruptcies would also go down. Even though the pros all help and seem great the cons to this policy also holds valid points. First, “18 million of the uninsured will be forced to go under Medicaid, while the rest will have to accept another government program. Even so, millions will remain uninsured,” (Pros and cons of Obama care June 29, 2012).
Failing hospitals at the brink of closure, requiring urgent assistance, will not have enough time to manage any unfavourable development due to bureaucracy within the communication channels of the new structure of the NHS (Nadeem Walayat 2010). The new structure of the NHS organisation provides power at the local councils with legal responsibilities for managing certain percentage of NHS budget. This gives local councils some role in influencing the health and social care services at their geographical areas. Local Authorities now have to work closely with other health and social care providers, community groups and agencies using their knowledge of local communities to tackle challenges such as smoking, alcohol, drug misuse and obesity. Private sectors will focus on profitable aspects of care and ignore non-profitable aspects of care, whereas the government wants to reduce the
The Affect Privatization Has On Mental Health Services In order to improve cost-effectiveness and quality, states have made an attempt to privatize mental-health care in Wake County and across the state. In other words, they are trying to save money and reduce the cost of their budget, but in reality they are decreasing the quality of service. Since privatization has taken place, it has affected the delivery of services to mental-health clients in several ways. When previously government-provided services are turned over to private sectors, it can have a tremendous impact on patients who are extremely sick because they might not be able to get the special treatment that they need. When private companies begin to furnish the care that counties
These treatments, with limited Medicaid reimbursement, will place RUMC at a great disadvantage. So the combination of uninsured individuals and the lack of Medicaid reimbursement will indeed affect RUMC in a negative manner. Of course the lack of funding will not be disregarded. Nothing is free, and unfortunately, the needed funds will be at the expense of taxpayers. Rush will continue to treat uninsured patients, and eventually the accumulation of unreimbursed costs for health care services will be shifted to taxpayers.
The lock-in program would help lower the amount of people abusing prescription medication. The lock-in program would also ease the minds of physicians and pharmacists who are fighting a constant battle of keeping track of patients on controlled medications. Even though Americans will pay taxes on Medicaid regardless, many people would feel more at ease knowing their money wasn’t going toward funding the habits of drug abusers. Any patient that seeks assistance from Medicaid should be entered into the lock-in program to help lower the amount of controlled substance abuse, to ease the minds of doctors and pharmacists, and to ensure American tax dollars are spent more
Some examples are selling policies across state lines; create high-risk pools, and tort reform. If citizens were able to buy insurance across state lines, it will result in “a race to the bottom in which insurance would soon stop guaranteeing access to healthcare” (Terry). High risk pools will have high premiums in which people with low income or no income at all cannot afford them. The president and his supporters have put part of the tort reform in the health reform bill. The tort reform will help protect physicians and medical facilities from malpractice law suits.
This mass expansion of health care in America must have an effect on utilization, but this effect is not yet known and is subject to vast speculation and controversy. Many people fear that the system will become overloaded and that Americans will be forced to get on waiting lists for care or perhaps deal with providers that are chosen for them. Due to the fact that the reforms force Americans that can afford health care to buy in, however, there will likely be less people cramming emergency rooms seeking free care. Perhaps the most important change in utilization forecast is the shift from treatment of disease to preventative care. The reforms and expansion of health insurance and specials provisions relating to preventative care are designed to get Americans to think about preventing disease before it happens.
Preventive care services are not covered. Positive is that doctors will receive higher revenue if they will see more patients (Valerius, Bayes, Newby, & Seggern, 2008). HMO is a managed care and most restricted plan. HMO patients choose medical providers only from the list and referrals are required. Also (except IPA members) doctors cannot participate in other plans.
Physician Shortage: Economic Concept of demand and demand shifts Roberta Mimms University of Phoenix Health Care Economics HCS 552 Amy Shoales April 23, 2012 Physician Shortage: Economic Concept of demand and demand shifts Many of us have the thought that the idea of being a physician, doing good for another individual, has such an appeal that medical schools should have a waiting list several years long. But that is not so. The world is suffering from a shortage of physicians. The Society of Critical Care Medicine, as cited by Gorman (2011), reports that the “shortage of full-time physicians will approach nearly 125,000 by 2025. It is estimated that we will need 1.7 new physicians to replace each one of our retiring physicians
True this healthcare will require employers to spend more on healthcare and therefore give those clear excuses as to why they have to make cuts. In most other nations the government provides healthcare for their citizens. There doesn’t seem to be a clear way to handle the healthcare issues, on one hand if the government sets mandates with regards to healthcare they tend to alienate the powers to be (Congress, the 1 %, Businesses); on the other hand these mandates helps those who otherwise wouldn’t be able to help themselves. (Simon,