Question

In this time of limited financial resources and reduced government payments for health care services, what are the ethical issues of limiting care? How much uncompensated care can hospitals absorb? Where do people with no resources go for care? What is the state's responsibility, if any, to ensure health care services? What is the community's responsibility, if any? What are the ethical considerations that should be taken into account?

Answer 1

Ans) The federal government is the largest single payer of health care in the United States, accounting for more than a quarter of al U.S. spending on healthcare”. As a result of the federal government being such a larger reimburse for healthcare facilities and them cutting back the amount of reimbursement a facility gets, it is causing a lot of financial stress for facilities across the U.S. Some practices will turn patients away if they have a government insurance because the provider doesn’t want to deal with having to get money from the government and because they know that the reimbursement level is low.