Question

How does the existing U.S. legal system, as well as the need for professional liability insurance coverage, impact patient care, physician behavior, and healthcare costs?

Answer 1

US health care is one of the most costliest services standing at 37th place worldwide.It has a great impact on everyone. Some of the main reason and impacts area as following

Patient care:

• When there is a regular health care provider there are high chances of increase in test number.
• Socioeconomic status of adults affect the health care received
• Patient with low income groups usually don't have most of the insurance coverage.

Physician impact:

• The new method introduced creates a increase in income incentive for physician
• Competitive prices done by physician
• They differentiate cost when the patients are with or without insurance coverage
• Physician started to follow plans' to increase their income

Cost impact:

• Sky rocketing expenses
• Patient cit down to take prescription medication due to cost
• Patient avoid follow up care
• Makes patient to borrow money and work hard to pay debt to meet the health care expenses met
• Over prescription if antibiotics has a great impact
• Expensive diseases like diabetes increase the cost of treatment
• Fraudulence I'm insurance scheme.