The population of 65 and older accounts for approximately 13% of our nation’s population, and they account for 24.1% of the total hospital visits (Dychtwald). One reason that the health care industry is such a moneymaker is because Medicare doesn’t generally cover all of the costs of disease prevention and long term care, which can be quite expensive. The percentage of GDP that is spent on healthcare was approximately 17% in 2009, and it is projected to be 19.3% by the year 2019 (Terry). (2) p.113 Healthcare costs for Medicare patients shown as $100/yr in 1965 and $7,000 in
Our health care system has flaws which afflict the lower, middle, and upper classes, however these afflictions are not equally shared. The upper class doesn’t have to worry too much about something as important as health care because it is well within their purchasing power and the poor can usually find help through Medicaid and related benefits. However, the middle class is commonly overlooked and can slip through the cracks of the public security net. It can be argued that the middle class is most affected by the flaws which plague the United States healthcare system. Through statistical analysis readers can see that the United States health care system is inadequate for the middle class; this is best seen by observing that health care expenses rise at a faster pace than middle class wages and the middle class lack of health insurance.
Chantra Horton ACC281 Accounting Concepts for Health Care Professional The California Sutter Health Approach Mark Strictlett January 30, 2012 An increasing issue within the health care field is the inability to collect debt from the growing population of uninsured or underinsured patients. Health care organizations may be struggling to meet operational margins because the industry has never treated its customers like other retail- oriented sectors of the economy. Hospitals incur sixty billion dollars in bad debt annually because the typically collect only ten to twenty percent of a total uninsured patient balance after service. This is due to a number of reasons, including poor accounting practices, or a lack of patient information.
Programs are needed to bring the people out to obtain better healthcare in rural areas but again the disparities they face are a stopping force. Because of this many interventionists fail to see the Return on Investment. Often more time, effort, finances and energy is put into providing quality healthcare in these areas. It is hard for the interventionists to see there ROI in the beginning. As the article stated the ROI is often seen many years later, being focused on certain health issues.
Despite this, however, services for older people remain under-funded; dementia care in particular is poorly resourced, with only one-third of sufferers receiving an official diagnosis and many thousands denied early drug treatment due to restrictive NICE guidelines. This was recently condemned by a Health Select Committee Inquiry, and remains the focus of political debate. (Alzheimer’s Society, 2008) A new initiative has recently been developed by the department of health to tackle ageist practice and to promote the rights of older people, Dignity in Care. The practice guide, based on service-user experience, illustrates several key factors which determine whether or not a care experience is positive and meaningful; older people should be respected as individuals; older people want care providers who are patient, listen and do not rush them; older people require a service that is person-centred, rather than task-orientated. (DOH, 2007) The following
Ways to increase compliance in the elderly. Increasing compliance in the elderly deems a decrease in the amount of hospitalizations and emergent care for these patients. Most elderly patients are diagnosed with multiple medical conditions which require multiple medications (Brandt, Hanna, & Walters, 2013). All these medications cost money as well as a tremendous responsibility to the patient. Money can become a big issue with compliance, but money is not the only reason why elderly are non-compliant with their medications.
Parts of the public opposed to universal health care including health care lobbyist express that our current system gives the highest quality and most attainable care in the world for children. The United States has an unacceptable rate of infant mortality compared to our leading nations and many third world nations. More children are surviving birth in El Salvador compared to Detroit, Michigan and is wondered to be a cause of faulty care provided regularly by private hospitals that aren't regulated by the federal government. Lately reports have surfaced concluding that 54 percent of American children currently have no doctor or regular care provided to them. Due to Obama care, children are now able to stay on their parents insurance until the age of 27 which shows a step forward for protecting the country's youth and for a future of equal universal
Courtne Flynn ASOC 341 December 8th, 2010 Term Paper Healthcare inequality refers to the dissemblance in the access to adequate healthcare between different location, gender, race, socioeconomic and other demographic groups. The United States is facing some serious problems when it comes to the health of their people; there are about forty-seven million Americans that do not have health insurance, which can account for about 18,000 premature deaths per a given year (Robinson 2007). However, “the United States spends more on health care than any nation in the world and yet, among the thirty nations that make up the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), the United States ranks near bottom on most health indicators”
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
According to the United States Census Bureau, roughly 55% obtain insurance through an employer, while about 10% purchase it directly. About 31% of Americans were enrolled in a public health insurance program: 14.5% (45 million – although that number has since risen to 48 million) had Medicare, 15.9% (49 million) has Medicaid, and 4.2% (13 million) had military health insurance (there is some overlap, causing percentages to add up to more than 100%). The percentage of non-elderly workers with employer-sponsored coverage has been falling, from 68% in 2000 to 61% in 2009, the latest year for which data is available. While the primary cause of falling rates of insurance is the rising cost of health care for employers, the economic downturn since