Chapter 9: History of Change from 1900 to 2010: Incrementalism, explained the timeline of healthcare to widespread and larger hospitals as well as health insurance coverage across the United States. There are several developments and acts that were put in place prior to the 19th century that paved the way for new reforms. For example, … Read more
Chapter 9 “History of Change From 1900 to 2010: Incrementalism” discusses the foundation of the current health care system and how it has changed in terms of access, financing, and organization from the 19th to 20th century. The founding of the American Medical association (AMA) and the U.S. Nursing Corps were two leading developments of the 19th century … Read more
Attempting to place arbitrary limits on the length of appointments or setting high targets for the number of patients that he or she could see in one day may lower the cost in the front end, but they incur much higher costs later in the cycle of treatment. The article written by Derek A Haas, … Read more
The U.S. health care system exists within a framework bounded by two ideological opposites: health care is a public good and health care is a private good. These two concepts—private good and public good—are defined as follows. Public good, in economics, (is) a product or service that is non-excludable and nondepletable (or “non-rivalrous”). A good … Read more
Chapter 7 focuses a lot on how the performance of various health care systems and how they are assessed and evaluated in the industry. There are three different criteria for evaluation of health care systems: (a)quality (b)equity (c)efficiency. Structure and process influence the outcomes of health care. Ultimately, our interest is in outcomes, and we … Read more
All processes must succumb to evaluation to ensure accuracy and efficiency and detect any mistakes within the process. The same principles apply to performance in the healthcare system. It is extremely important to have a satisfactory performance to upkeep the confidence and trustworthiness received from the people they serve. Evaluations help to improve performance and close … Read more
Chapter 8Review- By Holly Rosenberger Even for those who can afford most care may find themselves impoverished by a catastrophic medical expenditure. Debates that Have Structed Health Care System Change The American health care system is approaching a breaking point. I know I am at my breaking point. Chapter 8 from the required text discusses the … Read more
Health insurance is one of those topics that can be sensitive for some. As Americans, even when the pandemic struck, some of us made the joke of the fact of moving to Canada simply for their “free healthcare”. As with anything, there are pros and cons to the system. It is the stance that politics … Read more
Chapter 5 and 6 gave us great insight into business of the healthcare industry and the reality of some of the decisions that are made. Chapter 5 discussed the extent to which the government regulates the healthcare system here in the United States. From the text, it is clear that private/public nature of the healthcare … Read more
To understand the current state of the U.S. health system is to understand sovereign power and the check and balances on a state level. Federalism is the relationship between the country and the state in an agreement to work together. It is a balance between the two so that power is not overrun by one … Read more