Health Care In America Essay

The health care system in America has been debated for years. The focus has mainly been on the cost, coverage and access. The Affordable Care Act was signed into law on March 23, 2010 under the Obama administration. Since Trump went into office, the Trump administration has been deciding on the future of the health care in America and has continually expressed the goal to dismantle the Affordable Care Act. However, the debate has not been focused on a seemingly important factor, which is the actual quality of hospitals. Rich Lesser, president and CEO of The Boston Consulting Group and Barry Rosenberg, a partner in BCG's Health Care practice wrote an opinion based article on the health care in America. In this article, Lesser and Rosenberg
Their point being efficient as it is, they have linked the research that was used to assemble the statistics that are used in favor of their argument.
Lesser and Rosenberg use an effective quote “where you live might determine if you live” which helps sum up their studies that they explained in their article that found poor-performing hospitals were serving populations with high income and high-performing hospitals were serving low income populations. This shows that your income does not completely determine if you are getting great quality health care. Lesser and Roseberg close off their article with the next paragraphs stating ways that hospitals can improve their quality. They remark that data from hospitals that show the overall quality should be available to view for the purpose of improvement and research. The authors also write that the data information should be available to the public so that they can choose which hospitals will give them the best