Unethical Aspects of Health Care

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This paper stresses that basic premise of ethical health care is to make sure everyone has an opportunity to be treated, to have his illness cured if possible and not to leave the patient and his family with a huge financial burden. The author points out that, while individuals may complain about the rising costs of health care, it is the shouting of large corporations, who are paying a share of these costs through employee programs, that has alerted the public and government regulators to the high price of health provision. The paper contends that, although many experts may agree that the problem is "market-driven health care", the facts are (1) that it is nearly impossible for a patient to "compare" services and (2) the traditional hospital survive through donations and gifts from philanthropists, while the managed-care facilities must operate on a for-profit basis.

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"Technology is supposed to reduce the cost by increasing efficiencies. However, many of the traditional hospitals have become so enamored with some of the new technological and surgical machinery and instrumentation that "they have been so pervasively purchased by health care institutions- some of which use them very little that they have increased the costs as well." What has happened is that new technologies, which may include lasers and even plastics, have increased the number of elective surgeries, since the trauma of great pain and lengthy operations and after-care have now been minimized."

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