Question

Discuss your thoughts and ideas about how the healthcare system of the United States functions, what are its limitations, what are its assets, and finally how you as a person involved in the healthcare system in America would approach fixing its problems/limitations?

Answer 1

US health care system is very unique in the world .

A single payer health insurance system or a universal health insurance system fund the health care system

Assets:

It maintains its entire document in Electronic Health Record

The data of patients are available to entire health care professional across different set up to provide advanced and effective care

The patient has access to their health records by patient health records which can be personally accessible by patients.

Medication error are minimised due to Electronic health record

People are covered under Medicare and Medicaid

Affordable care act is made accessible to all

Small scale business of health insurance company

Limitations

Trump's new health policy of health insurance

Executive health insurance scheme

Large scale health insurance companies are affected due to the bargaining done by small business insurance company to people

Being a health care professional it is great to accept all assets mentioned above to provide good quality services to patients.

Making sure all patients have insurance scheme to meet the skyrocketed costs in US health care

Staff shortage should be addressed