Health Care System In Turmoil
Healthcare System in Turmoil name MHA622
Health Care Ethics & Law
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Healthcare System in Turmoil
Patient access to care and the cost of care are two of the main reasons for the current turmoil in the health care system in the United States. With over 50 million Americans who are uninsured today patients continue to struggle in order to maintain their health care or trying to gain health care to comply with the new Affordable Care Act. With the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passing in 2010 some seem to believe a solution to some of the health care system issues that people were facing would be fixed. But in June of 2012 the law or rather the taxes were challenged in the United States Supreme courts by being stated that the Act be repealed as it was unconstitutional. With that the supreme courts upheld the law stating that it was constitutional and upheld the taxes. According to HealthReform.gov many Americans are not given choices of affordable health insurance based on the areas that they live in. "Fifteen percent of Americans in rural areas live in poverty, compared to 12 percent of people in urban areas, leaving many unable to pay for health insurance" (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services., 2014)
One major problem of health care and the impact that it has on the consumer and the community would be the cost according to the HealthReform.gov website. Those that live in rural areas where poverty is higher have the highest rates of diseases that are chronic. Most have no insurance and that gives limits to having access to primary care physicians. The main goal of the national health care tax of 2010 was to permit coverage to all the citizens of the United States, as well as placing the necessary health care facilities in places that they were needed the most, such as in the rural areas of the United States (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services., 2014) When asked of most Americans what they believe the most important
Health Care Ethics & Law
Date
Instructor
Healthcare System in Turmoil
Patient access to care and the cost of care are two of the main reasons for the current turmoil in the health care system in the United States. With over 50 million Americans who are uninsured today patients continue to struggle in order to maintain their health care or trying to gain health care to comply with the new Affordable Care Act. With the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passing in 2010 some seem to believe a solution to some of the health care system issues that people were facing would be fixed. But in June of 2012 the law or rather the taxes were challenged in the United States Supreme courts by being stated that the Act be repealed as it was unconstitutional. With that the supreme courts upheld the law stating that it was constitutional and upheld the taxes. According to HealthReform.gov many Americans are not given choices of affordable health insurance based on the areas that they live in. "Fifteen percent of Americans in rural areas live in poverty, compared to 12 percent of people in urban areas, leaving many unable to pay for health insurance" (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services., 2014)
One major problem of health care and the impact that it has on the consumer and the community would be the cost according to the HealthReform.gov website. Those that live in rural areas where poverty is higher have the highest rates of diseases that are chronic. Most have no insurance and that gives limits to having access to primary care physicians. The main goal of the national health care tax of 2010 was to permit coverage to all the citizens of the United States, as well as placing the necessary health care facilities in places that they were needed the most, such as in the rural areas of the United States (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services., 2014) When asked of most Americans what they believe the most important