Mitigate Uninsured Patients: A Case Study

Role of Nursing to Mitigate Uninsured Patients As a nursing profession, the American Nurses Association is advocating for a single-system payer to reduce inefficiency, simplification of rules for the health care reform that will provide a universal coverage, and curtail the increase cost of administration, as originally proposed by the Institute of Medicine in 2004 (Lopez, 2011; Groves, 2014). Nurses can stand together to petition the lawmakers in Texas to expand the current programs for Medicaid. In addition, advocate for the undocumented residents to allow them to purchase private insurance. Some safety nets for the uninsured are the state-funded hospitals, the primary care clinics by the local health departments, non-profit organizations,