HPEX 300 Lecture 1: Lecture 1
13 Feb 2017
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Us healthcare system adjectives: fragmented, expensive, unfair. The us health care delivery or health services delivery system: broadly defined; Major components of the system and processes that enable people to receive health care: restricted definition. Act of providing health care to patients (i. e. in hospital or physician"s clinic) Primary objectives of a health care system: 1. To enable all citizens to receive health care services: 2. To deliver services that are cost-effective and meet established standards of quality. The us health care system: it"s unique. No universal health care financed by taxes. No other country operates like the us. Critical issues related to cost, access and quality: the health care workforce employs over 16. 4 million people. 15,700 nursing homes (3x hospitals, people live longer need more care) 50. 7 million (16. 7%) uninsured (has gone down) Financing and insurance mechanisms: employer-based health insurance (private, privately-purchased health insurance (private, government programs (public) The us health care system: there"s little or no:
