Public Health: Medical Mistakes

Public health issues include chronic illnesses and limited recourses this can be a crisis for most people. Dealing with chronic concerns such as constricting directives, uncompromising support and political forces interference from local and state governments can make a tough situation even tougher.

Private health insurance allows individuals to choose a plan that fits them best based on desired coverage for his or her family needs, current medical conditions and premiums they can afford. Usually private health care offers more options for healthcare but high prices and premiums can leave individuals with large medical bills. In comparison the main goal of public health care is to provide minimal out of pocket expenses. Usually consists of a basic nonprofit form of insurance available to citizens. Unlike private insurance the premiums paid for public healthcare goes to the federal government to help pay for the medical care of the patients needs.

Public health efforts and those of private medicine instead of complementing each other and working together for the grater good of the American people can often have an argumentative relationship due to differencing standards of quality care for vastly different size populations where private medicine serves the smaller population of those subscribed in regards to individual public health is concerned more with the larger population and communities as a whole.

Similarly, public and private health organizations or providers work toward the same cause of preventative medicine. Both parties support immunizations for the young and old and as in the cases for chronic illnesses like tuberculosis, acquired immunity disease syndrome, influenza an...

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...to bad choices and unhealthy living. Obesity, smoking, drinking and risky behaviors like unprotected sex or aggressive behaviors these are the people that will be filling the emergency rooms and doctors’ offices. American citizens like you and me will be paying increased premiums, higher deductibles and even high taxes.

References

Allen, M. (2013, September 19). How Many Die From Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? - ProPublica. Retrieved February 1, 2014, from http://www.propublica.org/article/how-many-die-from-medical-mistakes-in-us-hospitals

Richter , D. (2009, October 4). Lack of universal health care is a mass killer | The Progressive. Retrieved February 1, 2014, from http://www.progressive.org/mprichter100409.html

Sultz, H. A., & Young, K. M. (2011). Health care USA: Understanding its organization and delivery (7th ed.). Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett.