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Equal Access Health Care

Introduction

The new health care proposal is based on the Current U.S. Health Care’s strengths, weaknesses, and challenges. The study is focused on the main concern that every individual should acquire a health care program to answer their unexpected problems.Although there are many factors that determine health, disparities in access to high-quality care worsen outcomes for vulnerable populations, including communities of color and those with chronic disease or little money, health insurance status remains a powerful determinant of health care delivery mechanisms, the current, fragmented financing and delivery systems which works poorly for many (Schiff, 2007).

Background of the Study

Improving and expanding the nation’s health care system has been worn by myths concerning the strengths of the status quo and weaknesses of alternatives (Daschle, 2005). The efforts to reform the health care system have been weaken by myths that hide the weaknesses of the current system and overstate the challenges of reform. The U.S. health care system leads the world in medical innovation. The strengths of the current system include many of the world’s top physicians, access to cutting-edge medicines and state-of-the-art technology. But above the improvement, the system suffers from high administrative costs, disparities in health quality, and major health insurance coverage gaps (Fante, n.d.).

Aims of the Proposal

The new healthcare system aims are entirely based on Fante’s Reform for Medical Innovation, in which the first change is to increase resources for the Food and Drug Administration to maintain the world’s gold standard for consumer protection. The second aim is to cover and expand the health care system for those people who are in need. The study believed that the lack of insurance compromises people’s health because they receive less preventive care, and diagnosed at more advanced disease stages. And the third is to encourage the businessmen, medical practitioners, and policy makers to invest in health care system and view medicines as an investment, not a cost.

Equal Access Health Care

The approach on the new health care system is particularly focused on its accessibility, quality, and cost; discrepancies; continuity of care; and patient centeredness. The impact of new health care system includes high deductible plans, medical savings accounts, consumer cost sharing, and medicine. The new system is described as a link for the rest or existing medical health care. The new proposed system is not capable enough to cover the entire nation but can fill the discrepancy of services within the community. Like the other existing health care programs, new system also considers the use of health cards, funds, and emergency accessibility which depends on the individual who applied for the health care.

Vision, Goals and Objectives

The new Health Care System has a vision to deliver and provide the health care benefits in a vast area as much as possible. To make this vision achieved, there are goals and objectives to guide the system towards its success.

- Identify and define the disparities in health care delivery, access, and outcomes among the populations of the United States;

- Evaluate the differences in health care delivery and health outcomes among the populations in urban and rural settings.

- Understand the causes of disparities, the influence of culture and attitudes towards health care on the utilization, delivery and organization of the health care services.

- Effectively eliminate disparities in health care and outcomes among the presented population of United States.

- Implement the changes and assurance of equal access to health care and optimal health outcomes.

Beneficiaries

The gap in access to care is one of the many symptoms with health care in America and sometimes missed the opportunities to see medical professionals (Blumenthal, 2007). Most of the insured Americans belonged to a working class and some of them have limitations such as the health care benefits are only applicable to the person who applied for it. Also, the veterans were already granted the life insurance. That is why the proposed health care system is entitled for women and children. The health care service will be granted on an applicant who will pass the criteria and can enjoy the benefits of the system as long as they enrolled it in the same system every year. The included benefits in the program are dental service, emergency or operational fund insurance, and medicine assistance.

Women are eligible to join the health care program if she is a U.S. citizen and legal migrants. They can fill the application if they are also belong to a working class or have an income or savings not lower than the 20% of their monthly compensation or income. Meanwhile, the children are qualified when they are 5 years old, with a parental consent, to 19 years old. They can student or out of school youth but have the qualities to maintain the sufficient balance on their account. Children and women with disabilities are also welcome in the healthcare system.

The disadvantages may reflect on those individuals that can afford a professional attention and immigrants that are living in the state for less than two years. In addition, the health care system has limitations and cannot sustain all the demands of the members. But it is expected to gain sufficient fund and produce quality service in the coming years.

Challenges

The challenge in health care system existed before and can affect the new system and the future health care innovation (Schiff, 2007). The organization and practice of medical care in the United States can lessen the medical service on the target population if the standard procedure is not implemented. And the Social, economic, and environmental conditions can gradually influence health.

And to answer these challenges, the health care must be act according to its principles that mainly focuses on health. The universal and unified strategy in health care is advisable. It should be publicly administered, free at the point of access, equitable, centered on care, responsive to needs, rewarding quality, cost-effective, and accountable are the other evolving principles (Rudiger, 2009).

Anticipated Problems

Low income or poor women may find difficulty in applying for the healthcare system especially when they are ill and need a professional attention. Women or children that faced complications from their illness cannot be saved by the health care system because it only provides simple medications.

In children, the cure for diabetes is part of the system and depends on its stage level. But the obesity is not included in the program. It is for the reason that obesity needs rehabilitation and not medicine. The parents are the one responsible for taking care of their children that encounters the problem of obesity. The only solution that the new health care system may provide is to enroll the obese children in a rehabilitation center and monitor their progress.

Conclusion

The social, economic, and moral aspects of our health care crisis and offer guidance for developing a holistic solution. Health care is a complex topic and the need to create new coalitions to push the reforms and new answers that will work for everyone is extremely high and anticipated. The challenge is to provide affordable and quality health care to everyone in the U.S. (Daschle, 2005). The available strategy, which is common and yet effective, is the never-ending research and development to help the health care system sustain, maintain, and achieve its goals and vision. A sustainable system of collective health care provision that guarantees that everyone can get the health care they need, regardless of their ability to pay is highly anticipated.

References:

Blumenthal, D., 2007. Health Care Access: The New Landscape. Harvard Medical School. [Online] Available at: http://hms.harvard.edu/public/longwood/LS_HCAPacket.pdf. [Accessed 29 October 2009].

Daschle, T., 2005. Health Progress and Policy. Myths and the Global Case for U.S. Health Reform. [Online] Available at: http://www.americanprogress.org/. [Accessed 29 October 2009].

Fante, R., (Pres.) n.d., Reform Must Protect U.S. Lead in Medical Innovation. [Online] Available at: http://www.phrma.org/about_phrma/ceo_voices/. [Accessed 29 October 2009].

Rudiger, A., 2009. Ten health Care Financing Principles to Ensure Universality, Equity, and Accountability. Human Right to Health Program. [Online] Available at: http://www.nesri.org/Human_Rights_Principles_for_Financing_Health_Care.pdf. [Accessed 29 October 2009].

Schiff, G., 2007. U.S. Health Care Insurance: Current Status and Future Vision. Call for Papers, Journal of Medical Care, Vol. 45, No. 9. [Online] Available at: http://www.soa.org/files/pdf/hlth-medical-care.pdf. [Accessed 29 October 2009].

Other Source:

University of Virginia Health System 2005. [Online] Available at: https://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/cimh/vision.cfm. [Accessed 29 October 2009].

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