Question

Describe the concerns presented by two of the stakeholders and discuss your position (i.e., for or against) in the current debate regarding value-driven health policy.

Answer 1

After reviewing the stake-holders presentation I felt that some of the viewpoints raised many questions for me but lacked the information for me to provide a position or opinion in that area. I did come across two stake-holds in which I found interest in as they are areas that I have completed my own research on in other classes. First the Health care Administrators Dialog which goes into detail regarding employees who must handle declining reimbursements, charity medical care, and paying competitive salaries to other employees. The main concern depicted for this dialog was the amount of uninsured people that are unable to pay for costs at a physician's facility so they utilized the emergency room as a medical necessity for health care services. I do agree that this is an issue that has been around in health care for quite some time and believe that this is one of the most important issues that needs to be addressed. Although it is not favored by many people, I feel that transitioning the United States health care system into a Universal Health care model could greatly benefit us and everyone who is currently uninsured. In turn, this helps to create less busy emergency rooms and potentially helps to improve the health quality in currently uninsured individuals.

The next dialog that I found interest in was that of the Nurses. This discussion focused on fixing the health care system by applying preventative care and ensuring that the health of individuals increases in quality to not only implicate a healthier community but to also prevent the cost of health care to continue to increase. Once again I have with the nurses’ statements that having people take preventative measures to ensure a healthier community can improve that health care system greatly. I believe that individuals who seek out medical advice from their primary care physicians ultimately decrease their chances of becoming sick or contracting diseases which can also lead to less unnecessary trips to the hospital which in turn helps the rising cost of health care to remain at a more steady level or a slower increase. I personally believe that it should be a mandatory requirement for individuals to attend a yearly check up with a primary care physician.