HSA 3170 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Medical Error, Robert H. Michel, Deficit Reduction Act Of 2005
4 Dec 2017
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Need for healthcare reform: three problems, quality, access, cost. Institute of medicine published to err is human: reframed the quality movement from improvement of quality to reduction of errors, 2001. Access: healthy people 2020 program, one of the goals to improve access to comprehensive, quality healthcare services, proponents argue, approximately 55 million americans had no health insurance, feel healthcare is a right, opponents argue, remaining population had insurance. Cost: employers, employees, tax payers, and patients all agree that healthcare costs are too high, spend the most on healthcare than any other country, but not any healthier, healthcare system is placing a burden on tax payers. Initiated a competitive environment under a prospective payment in 1992. Unsuccessful legislative attempts at reform: late 1980s-early 1990s, variety of healthcare reform bills circulated through congress, none of these bills were passed into law. Chapter 15: future trends part 1: prohibiting insurers from canceling or declining insurance coverage based on.
