Reforming US Health Care

Paper Summary:

The paper reveals that the US health care system is currently in crisis mode because of rising costs, problems related to cost containment, inefficiency and the numbers of uninsured and under-insured patients increasing each year. The paper maintains that the only viable solution to this crisis is to provide all US citizens with some form of health insurance and to work towards a transformation of the system.

Outline:
Introduction
Health Care in Crisis Mode
Inefficiency and Injustice
High Costs
Managed Care
Innovative Approaches
Insurance Crisis
Quality of Care
Proposed Solutions

From the Paper:

"Currently, concerns about the escalating costs of health care and the lack of accessibility are being voiced by health care consumers, employers and other stakeholders. "According to the Institute of Medicine, over 44 million Americans are without some form of health insurance" (Odom R1). These escalating costs, as well as the dire problem of the uninsured, indicates that the health care industry in at the brink of a national healthcare crisis. Healthcare costs and financial problems can cause health organizations' legitimacy to be questioned. In a number of cases, the organization survived only because it was recognized that "the governance of community health organizations is critical to their survival, especially during times of crisis" (Savage 384)."

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