There Is No Right To Health Care
Our health care system has undergone several reforms in order to improve its functionality, cost, access, and effectiveness. Take the evolution of hospitals, for instance; originally they existed to “provide shelter and care for the destitute” (Almgren, 2013, p. 50). As time passed and infectious diseases prevailed, more protocols needed to be instilled to increase patient’s quality of life. Florence Nightingale and other professional’s emphasis hygiene, proved to be the type of reform needed to decrease mortality rated due to infectious diseases.
While hospital reform is a definitely a notable subject, in my opinion, the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) surmounted all previous health care reform efforts in the United States and the Congress in 2010. Prior to the …show more content…
(2002). Why there Is no right to health care. In R. Rhodes, M. Battin, & A. Silvers (Eds.), Medicine and social justice: Essays on the distribution of health care (pp. 78-83). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Kaiser Family Foundation. (2014, May). Uncompensated Care for the Uninsured in 2013: A Detailed Examination | The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Retrieved from http://kff.org/uninsured/report/uncompensated-care-for-the-uninsured-in-2013-a-detailed-examination/ (Links to an external site.) Anyaso, H. (2015, June). Saying No to ACA Medicaid Expansion Costs States Money: Northwestern University News. Retrieved from http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2015/06/saying-no-to-aca-medicaid-expansion-costs-states-money.html
Kaiser Family Foundation. The health reform law's Medicaid expansion: A guide to the Supreme Court arguments. Focus on Health Reform, March 2012, 1-12
Obelander, J. (2010). Long time coming: Why health reform finally passed. Health Affairs, 29(6), 1112-1116
Almgren, G. (2013). Health care politics, policy, and services. New York: Springer. Chapter 2, Historical evolvement of the U.S. health care system, pp.
While hospital reform is a definitely a notable subject, in my opinion, the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) surmounted all previous health care reform efforts in the United States and the Congress in 2010. Prior to the …show more content…
(2002). Why there Is no right to health care. In R. Rhodes, M. Battin, & A. Silvers (Eds.), Medicine and social justice: Essays on the distribution of health care (pp. 78-83). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Kaiser Family Foundation. (2014, May). Uncompensated Care for the Uninsured in 2013: A Detailed Examination | The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Retrieved from http://kff.org/uninsured/report/uncompensated-care-for-the-uninsured-in-2013-a-detailed-examination/ (Links to an external site.) Anyaso, H. (2015, June). Saying No to ACA Medicaid Expansion Costs States Money: Northwestern University News. Retrieved from http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2015/06/saying-no-to-aca-medicaid-expansion-costs-states-money.html
Kaiser Family Foundation. The health reform law's Medicaid expansion: A guide to the Supreme Court arguments. Focus on Health Reform, March 2012, 1-12
Obelander, J. (2010). Long time coming: Why health reform finally passed. Health Affairs, 29(6), 1112-1116
Almgren, G. (2013). Health care politics, policy, and services. New York: Springer. Chapter 2, Historical evolvement of the U.S. health care system, pp.