Question

How will health reform affect the health care workforce?

What has been the traditional approach in the United States to the health workforce education system? What are the shortcomings in this approach?

How can reimbursement policy improve the supply of primary care? Explain.

Answer 1

1) Health reforms ; health reforms which are formed by the massachusetts laws to extend coverage to all residents of the state, these health reforms brought a change in the health care workforce and they are a) health reforms may accelerate the trend towards health care becoming a dominant employment sector in the economy, b) reforms may require greater increase in adminstrative and health care support personnel rather than in physicians and nurses, c) provider concerns about the increased adminstrative burdens from reforms appear to have some justifications atleast in the short run. 2)In the traditional approach to education system, each programm is treated as a separate unit, this causes lack of interaction between the profession and therefore reducing the potential for improved patient care, the shortcoming in this approach to health workforce education can have many negative effects on todays health care system in the united states, since the traditional approache focuses on treating each health profession as a separate unit so it fails to provide more integrative less experience.to the workforce. 3)Reimbursement policy imporve the supply of primary care: Nurse practitioner reimbursement guidelines can be examined and fixed so that nurse practitioners can be value currently many nursepractitioner are not independent from physicians and so also cannot be reimbursed directly for their services, reimbursement for services from primary care physicians is also predetermined from preexisitng contracts. this gives very little room to adjust for nurse involovement.