Health Care Reform

American healthcare is a complicated unstructured system that has unruly cost and inflation due to poor oversight. As the population, ages and money from designated funds were misused by congress for other projects instead of healthcare the objective of funding healthcare to less fortunate individuals and now the middle class is becoming more challenging.

One of the reason healthcare has become so expensive is due to the quantity instead of the quality of service a healthcare intuition and physician provides. The healthcare environment promotes overcharging and providing sometimes unnecessary test that do not affect the outcome of the patient. Physicians are encouraged to preformed extra procedures, follow ups, and test that may be unnecessary just for reimbursement. The quality of healthcare is not currently assessed by insurance agencies whether the insurance is government of privet sector. Healthcare is focused on seeing more patients and not the quality of service they provide those patients. Laws should be passed that dictate that facilities have higher recurrences of rehospilation and poorer prognosis should be reimbursed at lower rates to encourage higher quality of care at a more cost efficient way. Insurance companies and patients should not be paying high prices for healthcare that is not effective. Higher reimbursement for facilities that provide the fastest and most effective treatment that avoid future cost due to rehospitlization should be given the greatest reimbursements. The higher reimbursements will encourage facilities to improve on their patient outcomes and decline the amount or rehosptilizations that occurs. This method over time will save the insurers and patients a great deal of money.

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...Insuring that healthcare providers are truthfully charging insurances for services needed to a patient should be heavly investigated by authorities. The penalty of committing insurance fraud should be significantly increased and investigators should work fiercely to curtail as much fraud as possible saving millions a year in fraudulent claims.

A combination of reform from organizing healthcare and minimizing the amount of procedures and test performed by healthcare providers along with person responsibility of the public would solve most of the healthcare problems today. Cutting cost and at every coroner that does not reduce the quality of care provided is the best way to solve the healthcare finical pandemic in America.

Works Cited

Shi, L., & Singh, D. A. (2013). Essentials of the U.S. health care system (3rd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.