Health Care Barriers

The many barriers involved in accessing healthcare have impacted the United States significantly. The cost of healthcare in today’s society is one of the most consequential barriers. But that is only one barrier to the problem, some more key barriers include lack of reassurance, poor access to services and nonfinancial barriers. “Some difficulties that involved the cost of healthcare access is that some Americans did not get needed medical care or delayed medical care because they were worried about the cost or worried their health insurance would not cover their healthcare needs, and this was due to their financial status. Some more barriers comprise of Americans being too busy with work or other commitments, not being able to get an appointment
Some Americans have problems with all of these barriers I‘ve mentioned. For example some families may not be able to afford healthcare and may have problems accessing the healthcare they need because they may not have a reliable vehicle or may not have a vehicle at all based on their financial
This is a very important fact because it brings awareness to Americans healthcare barriers and problems. Another fundamental fact to mention is that the increasing amount of healthcare in the United States is administered through managed care plans. The overall aim of managed care is to place administrative control over cost of, or access to health care services in a specific population of covered enrollees. Capitation is one example of managed care practices that seek to control costs of healthcare. Capitation is a payment arrangement for healthcare service providers such as physicians or nurse practitioners, to go in to more detail about capitation it is a fixed amount of money per patient per unit of time paid in advance to the physician for the delivery of the health care service. Managed care is structured around a variety of incentives to encourage the practice of cost effective medicine, healthcare, and clinical practice