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Accountable Care Organizations and the National Healthcare System
The Next Generation of Healthcare in America
National healthcare has been a hot button issue around dinner tables in America for years. Everyone seems to have an option on what will or will not work, how our county will afford it and what a plan would entail. Although we are unsure of how a plan would affect the country or the average American. Whether one is for or against the current healthcare plans that have been put in place by our government, We can all agree that the need for a national healthcare system is due to rising healthcare cost, the rapidly rising rate of uninsured American in our county and the rising cost of the average insured healthcare premiums through their employer based healthcare coverage plan. Accountable Care Organizations Could be part of the answer to the healthcare puzzle ACO’s offer a several befits to help to help curb spending and over utilization of healthcare by setting accountability, quality, and Healthcare standards. No one can argue that the United States of America has a grave need for some type of national healthcare system one reason for this is the rapidly rising cost of health care. The rising cost of healthcare is due to several factors. The main causes are technology, prescription drugs, chronic diseases, aging populations, and rising administrative cost. The cost of technology and prescription drugs has sky rocketed over the last several years. Analysts agree that the rising demand for the development of technology driven services and prescription drugs whether they are more effective than previous technologies and drugs or not has a large direct effect on the total healthcare cost. Consumers are demanding availability of these more expensive technologies and drugs as they are developed, even if they are not as cost
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Accountable Care Organizations and the National Healthcare System
The Next Generation of Healthcare in America
National healthcare has been a hot button issue around dinner tables in America for years. Everyone seems to have an option on what will or will not work, how our county will afford it and what a plan would entail. Although we are unsure of how a plan would affect the country or the average American. Whether one is for or against the current healthcare plans that have been put in place by our government, We can all agree that the need for a national healthcare system is due to rising healthcare cost, the rapidly rising rate of uninsured American in our county and the rising cost of the average insured healthcare premiums through their employer based healthcare coverage plan. Accountable Care Organizations Could be part of the answer to the healthcare puzzle ACO’s offer a several befits to help to help curb spending and over utilization of healthcare by setting accountability, quality, and Healthcare standards. No one can argue that the United States of America has a grave need for some type of national healthcare system one reason for this is the rapidly rising cost of health care. The rising cost of healthcare is due to several factors. The main causes are technology, prescription drugs, chronic diseases, aging populations, and rising administrative cost. The cost of technology and prescription drugs has sky rocketed over the last several years. Analysts agree that the rising demand for the development of technology driven services and prescription drugs whether they are more effective than previous technologies and drugs or not has a large direct effect on the total healthcare cost. Consumers are demanding availability of these more expensive technologies and drugs as they are developed, even if they are not as cost
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