Question

Discuss the ethical issues of Healthcare Reform and ACA.

Answer 1

Major 10 ethical issues in healthcare:-

1) patients right

2) equity of resources

3) confidentiality of patients (regarding personal info.)

4) patient safety

5) conflict of interests

6) ethics of privatization

7) informed consent

8) dealing with opposite sex

9) Beginning and end of life

10) Healthcareteam ethics

Many of the emerging ethical issues that social workers will confront in the health care field are direct consequences of the tensions generated by recent and impending policy changes under ACA

some of these ethical issues include :-

1) Between Cost Containment and the Enhancement of Service Quality

2)Between Administration Regulations and Client’s Self-Management

3)Between the Growing Environment of Interdisciplinary Practice and the Maintenance of Professional Hierarchies and Boundaries

4) Between the Pressure to Enhance Institutional Efficiency and the Importance of Providing Patients with Necessary Health Information

5) Between the Universal Attributes of the Legislation and the Growing Demand to Address Long-Standing Racial and Ethnic Health DisparitiesThese tensions will be most powerfully felt within the following traditional sources of ethics

It is important for nurses and other health professionals to consider how the implementation of the ACA relates to their role in understanding and trying to rectify conditions of injustice in health care.