This hurts the patient and makes you wonder if the public health care is workable. People who are for private for profit health care use wait time as a reason to justify the introduction of privatized health care system. The good news is wait time is fixable. To reduce wait time system wide improvement in health care system is needed. From the research that I made I come up with financial incentives to be a major step to be taken for the reduction of patient wait time.
This is significantly addressed in the 1996 Statements of Antitrust Enforcement Policy in Health Care. The statements offer guidelines in preventing antitrust issues from discouraging activities potentially yielding lower healthcare costs, enhanced competition, and enlarged consumer
- Medicare is not currently in a state of crisis now, but considered and definitive action is needed to avoid an impending funding crisis with respect to the program. - Medicare is funded through taxation of income; any additional funding will have to be derived from cuts in other programs or an increase in the tax rate. - The elderly regard Medicare as insurance, rather than welfare because they spent their working lives paying into the system. This is not an unreasonable viewpoint, and serves to solidify the notion that the population, elderly and otherwise, will not take kindly to substantial cuts in a benefit thought to be an entitlement, rather than a handout. - Whether there should be Medicare at all is a fundamentally moot point.
There have always been reasons to why the U.S. has not taken the step towards universal healthcare. Insurance companies could end up losing many different patrons, the enduring anti-government sentiment, the complications of this type of health care, and even the racial politics of the South have kept the United States from taking the next step towards universal coverage (Quandagno 12). The inevitable truth is that the United States needs socialized medicine, even if it is hard to come by. Health care costs more per person in the U.S. than in any other nation in the world (“Health Systems” 1). According to the US Census, the percentage of citizens within the United States without any type of health care coverage was 15.3%, or 45.7 million people, in 2007(U.S. Census 9).
Sicko is most closely related to Farmer's argument against just looking at healthcare's cost-effectiveness that he describes as one of the "excuses of our times" (Farmer, 274). In Sicko, one of the most horrifying facts brought to light is that some American insurance companies give bonuses to doctors who can find ways to avoid meeting the cost of medical treatments for policy holders. This is an overwhelming example of putting cost-effectiveness before health and quality healthcare, and even casts Americans as an unequal group because the film shows other parts of the world that have better access to quality health coverage. This shows that there are many levels of inequality in the healthcare system, and they are in place for a variety of reasons: social, economical, and
How can the country reduce health care costs while not compromising quality? What’s in jeopardy in medicine is the connection between doctor and patient. Doctors, patients, and insurers should work together to recreate familiarity, the trust, and friendly alliances that are used to define patient-caregiver relationships. The healthcare profession needs to rediscover the power of the human relationship and bring about the kinds of lifestyle changes that would reduce disease big time. (Alderman,
I am not saying that the bill will not work or that it is not needed, I just believe that more effort and thought should have gone into the proposed plan and what implications it has on all involved before trying to go live with coverage. I guess like everything else, time will tell the overall effectiveness and benefit of Obama Care and will show if it has made us better and more compassionate for those who are less fortunate or has had the opposite effect and has done more damage than good to an already unstable health care industry. References Bailey, L. (2008). Obama and McCain on Health Care Reform. Business & Economic Review, 55(1), 24-29.
Despite these facts, we are far from universal coverage. The author contends that our insurance system which attempts to cover everyone by providing minimal healthcare services. The article identifies two approaches for reform of the system. The first is addresses a paradox in the system and argues that there be greater access to some of the very technologies elevating the costs of health care under the current system, namely, high technology health care services. The author states that predictive measures need to be available to all in order to improve outcomes and ultimately reduce prices.
I also believe that to have health services at a level in which people are satisfied, for the price it currently costs us to get it is completely unreasonable. I think an adjustment to what health care is provided by the respective Federal and Provincial Governments is the key, once an accurate list of what should be provided is made, private clinics can gear themselves towards such care. In adjusting the Health Act I do not think that the government can give up the right to regulate prices and medical ran facilities, much like they do any other business. With a government regulated medical-insurance company people can have access to the more advanced medical needs, but at a slightly higher cost, easing the burden on the government financially. It is fair to expect that if you want a higher level of medical care, that you need to pay for it.
I don’t know if it’s ethical to require someone to have health insurance, however, I think it is admirable to want every American to have health insurance. My only concern is that there will be bias decisions based on the type of coverage that you have just like it is today. Majority of Americans can afford to pay for the best insurance plan .Whereas the rich will be able to pay the best coverage therefore leaving the person with low income the inability to get the best coverage available.” The national health system reform law is expected to reduce the nation's uninsured population to what could be an all-time low. But even after the major reforms take effect starting in 2014, millions will remain without coverage, whether by choice or