Future Trends in the United States Healthcare System
Future trends in the United States Healthcare system
Title: Future trends in the United States Healthcare system
Class HCA421: Health Care Planning & Evaluation
Instructor Jennine Kinsey
Name Crystal Batts
Date October 29, 2012
Future trends in the United States Healthcare system
For this paper I have chosen to write about the future trends in the United States healthcare system regarding Financial and Insurance issues, and access to health care including the uninsured and those in the poverty levels. Health care financing is affected by many things and affects the society in many ways. The costs of health care can be kept affordable for both individuals and society. It is not really the costs of health insurance that is the main problem in the country 's health system; it is the cost of healthcare itself. The cost of healthcare in this country is ridiculously high and skyrocketing. If medical insurance fees are also astronomical it is only a reflection of the actual high costs of healthcare. People that have private insurance not only struggle to pay their health insurance premiums but then whatever the insurance does not pay they struggle to pay there coinsurance and or copayments. It is so costly that 15 percent of the population lacks health insurance. I believe that the only way that the costs of health care are kept affordable for both individuals and society is for the government to step in and actually say that the doctors and hospital can only charge so much for procedures. I think that in order for the prices to lower the government would have to step in and actually create and fees schedule for the providers to go by. I am not saying for it to be completely set in stone but for the government to set the prices. For example I think that they should go through all the diagnosis codes and set prices from one range to the other. For example it a child is going in for surgery to have their tonsils removed the provider should
Title: Future trends in the United States Healthcare system
Class HCA421: Health Care Planning & Evaluation
Instructor Jennine Kinsey
Name Crystal Batts
Date October 29, 2012
Future trends in the United States Healthcare system
For this paper I have chosen to write about the future trends in the United States healthcare system regarding Financial and Insurance issues, and access to health care including the uninsured and those in the poverty levels. Health care financing is affected by many things and affects the society in many ways. The costs of health care can be kept affordable for both individuals and society. It is not really the costs of health insurance that is the main problem in the country 's health system; it is the cost of healthcare itself. The cost of healthcare in this country is ridiculously high and skyrocketing. If medical insurance fees are also astronomical it is only a reflection of the actual high costs of healthcare. People that have private insurance not only struggle to pay their health insurance premiums but then whatever the insurance does not pay they struggle to pay there coinsurance and or copayments. It is so costly that 15 percent of the population lacks health insurance. I believe that the only way that the costs of health care are kept affordable for both individuals and society is for the government to step in and actually say that the doctors and hospital can only charge so much for procedures. I think that in order for the prices to lower the government would have to step in and actually create and fees schedule for the providers to go by. I am not saying for it to be completely set in stone but for the government to set the prices. For example I think that they should go through all the diagnosis codes and set prices from one range to the other. For example it a child is going in for surgery to have their tonsils removed the provider should