Question

Topic: Healthcare Economics

Consider the following issues impacting health care today:

·       Access to health care

·       Aging populations

·       Consumer empowerment

·       Expansion of technology

Select one of these issues and answer the following questions:

1.   How does the cost of health care affect the issue?

2.   How is the nursing role of leader and manager influenced by this issue?

For example, the current climate in healthcare economics drives the need for cost efficiency due to new insurance and oversight regulations. How does this change the nurse caring for patients?

Answer 1

Access to Healthcare

Access to health care means having the timely use of personal health services to achieve the best health outcomes

1) The high cost of health care can be a barrier to access to care in developed nation for both insured and uninsured people.

Cost could be particularly burdensome for people in worse health

Nearly 19 percent people in worse condition are delayed services due to cost

27percent people where delayed due to uninsured

2) Nurses are positioned to contribute to and lead the transformative changes under the scheme like medicaid, Medicare

There are various factors affecting the care includes fragmentation, unsustainable cost,access problem, outcomes.The nurse work on the basis of value- based care incentivizes and focussed on wellness, prevention, minimising repetition, unnecessary costs.

The role of nurse promotes these changes.

Care manager, care coordinator, informatics expert murdered the vital leaders for quality services