The National Coalition On Health Care

A national health care system in the United States has been a contentious topic of debate for over a century. Social reformists have been fighting for universal health care for all Americans, while the opposition claims that a “social” heath care system has no place in the ‘Land of the Free’.

The United States health care system is lacking the needs to create a reliable system to achieve quality, access, cost, and educate for the consumers. Despite the efforts of the government to find a common ground to meet the standard for the societies, the system has yet to have a major improvement. These issues must be reexamined to fix the broken system. The United States health care expenditure is another issue that needs to be addressed to achieve the future goals of the healthcare system in the United States. Healthcare societies will need to interact differently by incorporating consumer’s empowerment, technology, and education to meet the future goals of the health care system. Also, the consumer must be highly educated on the purpose of preventive care to lower the risk of chronic diseases which account for a lot health care spending. The process of correcting the United States health care system will take time and effort from all individual to achieve greatness.

Healthy People 2020 discusses a number of special population’s that have barriers to care including; race, age sex, sexual identity, age, disability, socioeconomic, and location; this post will discuss race (ethnic) group.  There are a number of races mentioned in healthy people 2020, such as, Asian, American Indian, Alaskan, Latino and African American (Healthy People 2020, n.d.). Access to health care in an ethnic group is multifaceted from the lack of trust, lack of health care education, discrimination and cost of care including health insurance. According to Howard, Peace, & Howard (2014), African Americans have a greater risk of three preventable diseases, hypertension, renal failure and bacterial infections stating; “no other disease

The Center for Asian Health (CAH) mission is to reduce health disparities and improve health equity among Asian Americans and under-represented ethnic population through intervention research, training, community engagement through cancer and health programs, partnership, dissemination, and clinical support/patient navigation for culturally and linguistically appropriate comprehensive health studies (Sy, n.d.). Ma clearly addressed that they will continue to emphasize prevention and early detection to help reduce

The idea of passing the health care reform was to expand health care coverage, however, in order to do so, many changes must be implemented in order to fulfill the ACA 's promises. The first of which is allowing all individuals to acquire health insurance no matter the age, pre-existing conditions, or other unfair practices. Statistics show that “half of Americas” have a preexisting medical condition in which with the passage of the ACA, it allows individuals to acquire health insurance without the worry of having to pay high insurance bills (Moisse, 2011). The reason why having preexisting health conditions is no longer a factor in acquiring health insurance is because with the passage of the ACA (as discussed earlier, it was made a mandate to acquire health insurance) it is expected that it will balance out economically with the people who require more medical help to their healthier counterparts that do not require as much medical attention (Goodnough, 2016).

The Senate Committee on Health and Human Services consists of a chair, vice chair, seven members and a clerk. The Chair and Vice-chair of the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services are Charles Schwertner and Bob Deuell. Members of the committee include Joan Huffman, Jane Nelson, Robert Nichols, Larry Taylor, Carlos Uresti, Royce West, and Judith Zaffirini and the clerk is Michael Baca (Senate, 2014). As of 3/19/14 the Lieutenant Governor of Texas included two more charges to the previous five interim charges. The most recent interim charges are Charge VI: to evaluate and make recommendations on the current drug abuse and strategies to reduce prescriptions drug abuse in Texas. Also, Charge VII: to monitor the implementation of

According to Stingone and Claudio, urgent health care services cost one-third of total asthma health care and the minority children of African American and Latino families had a much higher rate of using emergency department (ED) and hospitalization in urban areas. They found that the prevalence of

When looking at the role of the Joint Commission their mission comes to mind; they state that their mission is to constantly improve health care for the masses, while considering connections with stakeholders, by looking at the health care organizations and compelling them to strive to give safe and effective care of the greatest quality. Though this is their overall mission they update their standards every year (The Joint Commission, 2016). These updates may add a new safety feature or amend a current safety feature or staffing problem or even looking at the sound system in a hospital (The Joint Commission, 2016). The whole role of the commission in giving these accreditations out is to ensure that hospitals are providing the utmost care

There continues to be racial and ethnic disparities in the United States, and these problems need to be addressed since the rate of racial/ethnic populations in the country are steadily rising. According to the 2001 United States Census, “racial/ethnic minority populations are growing at such a fast rate that by 2050 more than 50% of the population will belong to a minority group” (Weech-Maldonado, Al-Amin, Nishimi, Salam, 2011). Race and ethnicity should not determine the levels of health care people receive. Certain races have genetic predispositions for certain diseases and that fact cannot be changed. However, the differences among race for things such as treatment, access to health care, and availability of medicine should not be as great as they are. One of the most important disparities that exists between racial/ethnic groups is access to care, specifically how access to care is limited due to treatment not being tailored to the needs of different minorities.

In 2014, the US entered into the force sensational health care reform of the protection of patients in the United States, which is called The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Under this reform, all the citizens and residents of the country are required to have health insurance. It has also caused many discussions and opinions among people. Supporters of it say that this is a significant step forward, since there is no company that can refuse a person in the insurance policy. However, opponents believe that this reform will only worsen the condition of the Americans. The current health care reform has its drawbacks, such as increased fees for insurance, and the impossibility of choice, therefore, it is necessary for change.

Health care reform and health care itself has been a debatable subject for quite some time. Health care is a major issue that is found not only in the United States, but around the world. Controversy has gone around this subject due to the causes and effects of the reform and the matter of not being successful as many hoped. The World Prosperity Organization and the Institute of Medicine have two intriguing viewpoints about health care reform and what is needed to be done. The World Prosperity Organization touches bases on medical negligence, premedical education, money, mindset, medical school and the health care system itself. The Institute of Medicine focuses on the need for healthcare to be safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient and equitable. As the viewpoints are noticeably different, they still wrap around the idea that health care reform has room for improvement to be more successful and not have a negative impact on people around the world. The both agree that something needs to be done and done soon.

As healthcare costs continue to increase steadily, there has been great focus on methods to reduce charges that contribute to the price of care. Narrowing down to emergency medical services and hospital admissions, many parties have been scrutinizing and crunching numbers, looking for any way to lessen the high expenses. When the realization that the highest healthcare costs occur from an incredibly small number of people (referred to as “super-utilizers” or “super users”) became apparent, the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers when into action. The Coalition launched an idea to reform healthcare at the level of initial quality of care given and accessibility of care needed. In turn, the overall cost of healthcare for these patients decreased substantially.

These terms are relevant for improving the health of all Americans by achieving improvements in overall quality of care and population health. Moreover, health disparities are costly, resulting in added health care costs, lost work productivity, and premature death (Kaiser Family Foundation, 2012). According to a recent analysis 30 percent of direct medical costs for Blacks, Hispanics, and Asian Americans are excess costs due to health inequities) and that, overall, the economy loses an estimated $309 billion per year due to the direct and indirect costs of

Health care in the United States needs to be reformed to be more equitable to all citizens regardless of their race and financial situation. Those in charge of reforming health care should consider the principles of social justice outlined in Catholic social teaching as guidelines for ethical health care reform. Those principles are: the dignity of human beings, the common good, solidarity, and subsidiarity. These four social-justice principles provide a foundation for a virtuous and economically sound improvement in medical resource allocation; a Christian prescription for health care reform. It is clear that we have a duty to improve access, affordability, and quality of care for all citizens because of their human dignity. Frequently missing from the discussion of health care reform is the role of personal responsibility. Pope Benedict XVI has emphasized the point: “In the name of freedom, there has to be a correlation between rights and duties, by which every person is called to assume responsibility for his or her choices” (Reid, 32). Health care should be available to everyone regardless of work status, financial situation, race, gender or theological views.

Interest group roots fall back on the constitution and the birth of the American version of democracy