When we examine the issue it mostly focuses on the people to people interactions; which in most cases are physician to patient, the entire health care system, and the health care policies defined by the government (Lawrence R. Wu, 001). The thought of economics is made up of scarcity and the lack thereof and in the health care field there is plenty of that to go around. In which someone (someone being the government) has to govern the goods and services provided along with the quantity and how to allocate them to the economy. Right now there is a huge debate whether or not we as Americans should endorse the Obama Health Care plan which provides equal health care for all. 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.
America has their reservations that a universal health may not work because of its lack of choices and freedoms. There are pros and cons to having a universal health care system. For one, a universal health care offers free health services to people that cannot afford health care the services they need. The cons, is that a universal health care system often results in long wait times for patients and not everyone may receive the type of care that they need. The rising cost of health care has cause the government to step in and control regulations and spending; thus creating a health care reform system.
Currently, in the Obama administration, several acts have been passed to overhaul the healthcare system today. President Obama has also put healthcare reform as his top domestic priority. Both administrations, past and current, have attempted to enact several different policies in terms of healthcare reform; this essay seeks to examine the differences and similarities between the two while analyzing the social, economic, and political environments for the times the policies were discussed and/or implemented. Due to the increasing numbers of the population without healthcare, this problem continues to be an intense area of debate. According to author Michelle Andrews, healthcare remains a top domestic issue…but the candidates are focusing on major reform, and, when referring to healthcare reform, they generally focus on two primary areas: accessibility and affordability (Andrews, p.32).
Healthcare: Plato’s View Versus Modern Western Society People in today’s society have an immense number of expectations in regards to their quality of life. Perhaps the most prevalent is the expectation to the healthcare they choose. On the surface, it seems pretty clear cut. After all, why shouldn’t the individual patient be allowed to make choices that directly, or even indirectly, effect their general health? The waters become murky, however, when one takes into account the amount of resources allocated to providing some services or procedures to certain patients.
The financial costs have been significant over time. One EMTALA Fact Sheet 2012 of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) discusses how we as a society pay the ultimate price when it comes to the costs of EMTALA. Although, initially the hospitals and physicians carry the weight of financial burden, the costs are eventually shifted to the public when the cost of insurance deductibles and hospital services are raised and when insurance companies refuse to pay ER hospital claims. ACEP (2012) stated, "Some health insurance plans retrospectively deny claims for (EMTALA) emergency departments visits, based on a patient's final diagnosis, rather than the presenting symptoms (e.g., when chest pain turns out not to be a heart
There are a lot of pros and cons of pay-for-performance in health care (see appendix for charts.) the chart will show what people think about pay-for-performance and the good they think it does for the health care system but it also shows the cons what people think is wrong with the pay-for-performance program. However, many are not satisfied by pay-for-performance including congress who are not on board with the Medicare reimbursement because the policy relies on the evidence-based medicine it is used to developed a “clinical practice guidelines and compensate health care providers according to their compliance with the best practices dictated by a
The first dilemma involves the doctors of Health Net i.e. Dr Gupta, Dr. Schinke and Dr. McMillan wherein they have an interest in keeping the costs per patient within the capitation fee so that they can either earn extra income or avoid having to pay money to cover the extra costs above the capitation fee, while on the other hand they have a duty as doctors to provide the best possible treatment that gives Christy a chance to overcome her illness regardless of the costs involved. The second dilemma involves UCLA Medical Clinic’s Cancer unit who could possibly lose an extremely profitable business relationship with Health Net thus putting them in a financial crisis if they allowed the transplant to occur but on the other hand they had already agreed to give Christy a transplant and not doing so under pressure from Health Net would be immoral and could possibly open them to a potential lawsuit by Christy and her family. Common Sense Morality: With regards to Health Net and some of their doctors like Dr. Gupta and Dr. McMillan, they have certainly violated the ideals of ‘Common Sense’ morality which consists of being honest, fair and doing no harm to the parties involved. They were not honest to Christy when they deemed her treatment to be “Investigational” whereas it was a pretense to keeping their costs below the capitation fee since the bone marrow transplant would cost $100,000.
In recent years patients started to look into other directions, since predictions for limiting expenses faded. Managed Care I believe can be bad for healthcare providers. With this said what exactly is Managed Care??? Managed Care is a system of health care that commands cost of services, manages the use of services, and measures the use of services, and measures the performance of health care suppliers. On an international foundation, the development of health care policy is aggressively being influenced by cost considerations.
Advance directive laws merely give doctors and others immunity if they follow it, the only reliable strategy is to discuss your values and wishes with your healthcare providers ahead of time to make sure they are clear about what you want. Although, a doctor can be held liable in a court of law for not following those orders. There is a limited amount of time in which a patient can make a medical malpractice claim. The statute of limitations for these claims may vary by each state. Life and Death Issues in Healthcare A Review of the Case Study During a scheduled appointment a patient is given the unfortunate diagnosis of colon cancer.
Problems within the U.S. healthcare system Name Institution Problems within the U.S. healthcare system The United States healthcare system is facing numerous challenges at the moment. One of the central issues in the re-election campaign of 2012 is healthcare reform. The Supreme Court ruled recently to uphold the healthcare reformed championed by president Barrack Obama in the 2010 legislation, but the Republicans are wholly opposed to it. This may seem a straightforward political debate, but the healthcare situation is a big concern. Compared with other developed nations, America lags behind in the provision of quality and affordable healthcare to its citizens.