Question

how will americans not getting care because of the cost impact healthcare institutions?

Answer 1

Ans) Reasons for high cost health care:

- Third party payment
- Imperfect market
- Growth in technology
- Increase in elderly population
- Medical model of health care delivery
- Multipayer system and administrative cost
- Defensive medicine
- Waste and abuse
- Practice variations

• Cost containment, reason its occurring in US:

- Providers make up for lost revenues by increasing utilization
- Providers charge higher prices in other areas free of controls.

Value is defined as the key element in a specific theoretical framework: Value is the product of the quality of care plus the patient experience at a given cost.

- Access to health care impacts one's overall physical, social, and mental health status and quality of life.

Barriers to health services include:

~ High cost of care.

~ Inadequate or no insurance coverage.

Thus affecting quality in health care.

Basically, the goal should be totimprove patient outcomes without raising cost, or to lower costs without reducing patient outcomes.