Description
Changing regulations, economic developments, rapidly evolving technological innovations, demanding workforce issues, and trends in healthcare access influence the U.S. healthcare system. The concern over the economic future of the U.S. healthcare delivery system revolves around three broad issues: cost, quality, and access.
As a final project, prepare and submit a scholarly paper that discusses the following:
- Describe the economic foundation of the U.S. healthcare delivery system and the role of economics in healthcare.
- Compare and contrast the use of various economic models to explain the role of economics in healthcare and how the concept of the market equilibrium works in healthcare.
- Assess the role of production of health care that specifies the goods and services, its organization, and the technology used in the administration and practice of medicine.
- Compare the economic benefits and challenges of individual versus population health.
- Provide recommendations for improving cost, quality, and access in the delivery of health care.
Explanation & Answer
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U.S. Health Care Delivery System
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Global health has greatly expanded over the last two decades and offers high indications
to improve lives currently and in the future. The health care sector in U.S consists of clinicians,
hospitals or care facilities, consumers and insurance plans all interacting with each other. Some
of the aspects are public based others are private either profit or non-profit oriented (Jackson,
2017).
From an economic perspective, there is evidence of increasing healthcare expenditure as
returns in health improvement decrease as a result of curative medicine. The financing of health
care in the US has majorly focused on remedial measures though some progress is evident in the
prevention and improvement (Warren, 2019). The US health care delivery has evolved in response
to matters quality and cost but has been unable to provide necessities at an affordable price. There
is a lot of fragmentation in the US health ca...