Access To Health Care Research Paper
The Issue of Access to Health Care
There are many problems with the healthcare system in America that the government has been trying to fix the problems for decades. Currently, the one of the barriers that many people face is an inability to access to health care because of its high cost.
In the 1940s, many men were in overseas during the war, and US employers needed workers. In order to attract the employees, they added a health insurance plan to the benefit package. This was the beginning of employer-based health insurance. However, healthy people started having to pay the health care costs for sick. In the 1950s, the health care system became more complicated because of a host of newly available medications, including antibiotics. The …show more content…
Health care reform will require the collaboration of researchers,
institutions, and policy-makers working together to make the healthcare system better in the
United States.
References
A Brief History : Universal Health Care Efforts in the US. (2006). Retrieved from September 8,
2013 from http://www.pnhp.org/facts/a-brief-history-universal-health-care-efforts-in-the-
us
Bodenheimer, T. (2005). High and Rising Health Care Costs: Part 1: Seeking an Explanation.
In Harrington, C. (Ed.), Health Policy:Crisis Reform and in the U.S. Health Care
Delivery System. ( 5th ed., pp. 266-274). MA:Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
Buerhaus, P. I., DesRoches, C., Applebaum, S., Hess, R., Norman, L. D., & Donelan, K. (2012).
Are Nurses Ready for Health Care Reform? A Decade of Survey Research. Nursing
Economics, 30 (6), 318-329. Retrieved from
http://www.nursingeconomics.net/ce/2014/article3006318329.pdf
Cunningham, P. (2009). High Medical Cost Burdens, Patient Trust, and Perceived Quality of
Care. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 24(3), 415-420. doi: 10.1007/s11606-008-
0879-3
Doty, M. M., Collins, S. R., Rustig, S.D., & Kriss, J. L. (2008). Seeing Red: The
There are many problems with the healthcare system in America that the government has been trying to fix the problems for decades. Currently, the one of the barriers that many people face is an inability to access to health care because of its high cost.
In the 1940s, many men were in overseas during the war, and US employers needed workers. In order to attract the employees, they added a health insurance plan to the benefit package. This was the beginning of employer-based health insurance. However, healthy people started having to pay the health care costs for sick. In the 1950s, the health care system became more complicated because of a host of newly available medications, including antibiotics. The …show more content…
Health care reform will require the collaboration of researchers,
institutions, and policy-makers working together to make the healthcare system better in the
United States.
References
A Brief History : Universal Health Care Efforts in the US. (2006). Retrieved from September 8,
2013 from http://www.pnhp.org/facts/a-brief-history-universal-health-care-efforts-in-the-
us
Bodenheimer, T. (2005). High and Rising Health Care Costs: Part 1: Seeking an Explanation.
In Harrington, C. (Ed.), Health Policy:Crisis Reform and in the U.S. Health Care
Delivery System. ( 5th ed., pp. 266-274). MA:Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
Buerhaus, P. I., DesRoches, C., Applebaum, S., Hess, R., Norman, L. D., & Donelan, K. (2012).
Are Nurses Ready for Health Care Reform? A Decade of Survey Research. Nursing
Economics, 30 (6), 318-329. Retrieved from
http://www.nursingeconomics.net/ce/2014/article3006318329.pdf
Cunningham, P. (2009). High Medical Cost Burdens, Patient Trust, and Perceived Quality of
Care. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 24(3), 415-420. doi: 10.1007/s11606-008-
0879-3
Doty, M. M., Collins, S. R., Rustig, S.D., & Kriss, J. L. (2008). Seeing Red: The