The Poor Patient A High Cost Medicine

The healthcare system in each country is intended to meet the best possible medical services needs of its citizens. One country’s healthcare system can vary from another. This is according to their administration strategy, training, education, technology, and spending plan. Social, economic, political, and physical parts of the nation also play huge role in defining a country’s healthcare system. There are many similarities in the delivery of medical services between United States and Nepal. For the middle class people, affording a good healthcare system is still an unresolved issue of these two countries. The issue of financing the system of healthcare has been the biggest challenge to the government of Nepal, and it is similar to the Medicare and Medicaid programs in the United States. Although Nepal and the United States have similarities in healthcare system, they also equally share significant differences in providers, spending and the medical professionals. Some people consider that the healthcare system in the U.S. is superior.

Health is an issue that brings together various sectors and stakeholders because of its importance in the society. Giving the population quality healthcare requires vast attention and resources. Investments in the health sectors have kept growing to ensure that the society is protected from exploitation and that the quality of lives of the people is improved. However, there are instances when key stakeholders have failed in their role because of generalizations that

My initial reaction to this situation is to not advise them to write a prescription for their patient to give to the woman nor would I advise them to visit the woman either. If possible, I would say to that instead the patient could try to convince the woman to visit them or another doctor to examine if she actually needs the drugs for her condition. In this circumstance I consider both the physical, resident, and the woman as the primary decision makers with the patient as the stakeholder. My primary ethical question is whether it is morally permissible to write a prescription for someone who is not your patient and is it right to pay them a visit at their home.

Prescription drugs all around are very expensive, but without out them some of us would not be able to say we are alive. We can still see the price of these prescription drugs go through the roof as we speak. Although most of low-income workers can barely afford medicine and drugs, one way or another, we make it work because without it we would be dead. Although having insurance covers a lot of our medical health expenses, such as medical bills, prescription bills, hospital bills and things of this nature. As the cost of prescriptions keep going up, sometimes our insurance companies cannot cover the cost because they have hit their Cap of money able to spend. Some insurance companies have Cap for a person or a cap for a whole family it can be yearly or annually it just depends on the “deal” you worked out with your insurance provider. Most families, like my own make due to cover the cost of having insurance, yet we have to still be able to cover what remains of the prescription cost if we want to live. Money sometimes is very tight and meeting these necessary financial situations get tough.

Recently, there has been a debate about the high prescription drug prices in the United States. Accounting for 9.7% of the national health expenditure, $329.2 billion was spent on prescription medications ($931 per person) in 2011 (Linton, 2014). So what exactly is the average American getting with their $931? Well, because there is an extraordinary amount of time, effort, and energy that goes into creating, manufacturing, and distributing a new drug, it’s no wonder the prices are so high. But what other costs are folded into the prices of your prescribed medications? This review looks beyond just the research and development costs needed to take a new drug from idea to shelf by examining several journals and other credible, secondary sources, to shed some light on how much pharmaceutical companies are spending to develop, advertise, and sell their drugs.

Adults and children alike are unable to receive simple healthcare because clinics and medications are in short supply. Given these situations, poverty stricken areas create an abundance of infections and diseases. Poverty areas also lend to an epidemical lack of education and insufficient knowledge. The lack of education, particularly of the female populace, has been associated with underprivileged health concern in under-developed countries.

A considerable amount of people around this world does not have access to basic health care. Poor sanitation, exposure to harmful materials, and disease are just a few of the problems which can lead to the death of billions in this world. Unfortunately, one needs to be wealthy in order to protect oneself from these developing diseases. According to The Health Site, “39 million people are forced into poverty in India” due to the extreme costs of health management. One could infer from this context that medical care is perceived as a luxury in India, not as a necessity; this alone has the power to create a great decline within the nation’s population. However, this can be changed if enough people

Such intervention can deliver extensive care to patients and support the overburdened medical staff. Not only will this improve the management of diabesity, it will allow better data collection as well. Simultaneously, quality data can be collected to use it for further health implementation. The government cannot ignore this issue even if their view on this problem is in the fault of the patients. The country won’t be able to sustain when the healthcare demand is high and it is putting workers out of workforce. This could have a negative impact on continued economic

Free public health care or a single payer system as it’s referred to, is a health care system in which the state/government pays for any and all health care costs for its citizens. However in the south pacific region this system is becoming increasingly unsustainable, citizens are now being required to meet the full or partial costs of their treatment. This new system is referred to as the user pays system where the government is not responsible for meeting the costs of its citizen’s healthcare. This new system has been met with both positive and negative reactions. It is the responsibility of the government to provide free health care to all its citizens who benefit in a social and economical way. However a lot of people have taken to abusing these benefits in the very same sectors. This essay will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of free public health care.

According to various studies, 75% of Thalassemia patients in India come from impoverished backgrounds; and with monthly treatment fees exceeding Rs 3500- 5000 ($55-80)- roughly equivalent to more than half of the monthly income of most disadvantaged families- the average life expectancy for patients is 10 years. The situation of health in a country can be gauged by the quality of its health care system, which essentially centers on the country’s national health policy and plan (Basu, 2012). In my assessment, the public health care system of India is plagued with countless problems such as, political interference in the administration of health institutions, corruption, nepotism, negligence, absence of a defined set of standard of procedures (SOP’s) and a dearth of monitoring mechanisms to ensure compliance with identified standards. Higher-quality private health care services are relatively more costly, which only the top 10- 15 percent of the population have access

Apart from having the public sector, we also have a well established private sector The private sector absorbs 32% of the total expenditure on health in the country. . In a year, the private sector has 27, 000 admissions for in-patient treatment, undertakes 13,000 surgical operations and delivers over 2,000 babies. Some people choose private hospitals instead of public hospitals due to better service quality and admission procedures. There are reliable doctors and nursing officers and their attitude are courteous and they are more hospitable and are ready to help.

One of today’s world problem that has not yet to change is developing countries facing wide range of low health care. According to the studies, during the past 10 years healthcare has made a drastic change in developing countries. The concept of health has been described as injustice, unfair, and unavoidable. In the research, the inequalities in health of the developing status show to be related to income and other socio-economic factors. In the articles presented in this essay mentions the lack of attention health care that is provided in most developing countries. Besides the problem of health care, the articles also provide possible solutions. This essay aims to reveal the solutions of health care that is presented by

It is difficult for the private hosiptals to state clearly specific price list for every medical condition because of the highly variable factors involved in every case (The Hong Kong Connection, 2010, November 1 a &b). For example, two patients with the same illness, but with different ages and medical history. Although, the HKSAR has set the obvious aim in promoting public-private balance, it seems no any other action done to achieve it in the recent years, except Electronic Health Record Sharing System, and the consultation document of VHIS. Furthermore, owing to lack of advanced medical equipments, the private hosiptals may not capable to conduct complicated surgeries and treatments. The insurance companies doubted about the sustainability of the high-risk pool. If the high-risk pool is out of money, who would be responsible to pay for the medical gap? The insurers also critized that the rise of the average premium of the hospital insurance plans (9% per year) under the VHIS is underestimated. The premium amount must be increased after the inclusion of the 12 minmium requirements. In conclusion, both the private hospitals and the insurance companies are not confidence in the implementation of

A practice and attitude penetrated in the Saudi culture are that the health care facilities should be only visited (utilized) when there are unstable medical conditions, severe pain, or obvious illnesses or diseases captured by a patient. Furthermore, there are clear absence of the concept of regular checkups and/or maintain a primary doctor visits and medical record. In addition, hospital emergency departments are utilized as if it is an alternative to the primary physician regular visit. These behaviors are worsened since the Saudi health care network provides free care to the general public [3].

Healthcare sector is an integral part of a society and nation and no one can deny this reality. There is much progress and an improvement in healthcare sector as compare to the 50 years ago when people used to wait in queues for long time to get the attention of doctors, nurses and other paramedical staff for treatment. Governments and responsible departments were also responsible for the whole healthcare setup which was not properly structured. It was still considered as forbidden in many parts of the world until the 21st century (Alison; 2012).