Question

While we may think that healthcare policies are created to ensure that patients have the best experience in the healthcare system, the cost-benefit analysis of the problem plays a large part in the decision making process. What can be done to improve patient outcomes without adding too much cost to either the system or the patient. For this discussion, you will need to look at federal and state regulatory agencies, insurance - both public and private, professional organizations, and healthcare accrediting bodies. Answer the question below for the following topic: Access to healthcare

1-What barriers make it difficult to solve this problem?

2-How does the topic affect the population?

3-What solutions have been offered so far for the problem? Why haven't they been implemented?

4-If you were in charge, what would you do to solve the problem?

Answer 1

a) High cost of care.Inadequate or no insurance coverage. Lack of availability of services.lack of culturally competent care.

b) rural populations experience lower access to healthcare along the dimensions of affordability, proximity, and quality, compared with their nonfarm and urban counterparts. Nonmetropolitan households are more likely to report the cost of healthcare limits their ability to receive care. Travel to reach a primary care provider may be costly and burdensome for patients living in remote rural areas, with subspecialty care often being even farther away. These patients may substitute local primary care providers for subspecialists or they may decide to postpone or forego care.

c) Team up with Independent Transportation Network, ITN. ...Use Mobile Clinics to Go to the Patient. ...Work with Congregational Networks to Coordinate Rides. ...Partner with or Co-host Pop-up Clinics. ...Team up with Retail Clinics. ...Work with Student Run Clinics. ...Take care directly to target populations with Co-located Clinics.Reduce the cost of service

d) i will do the mass awareness regarding the services which are free of cost and the home remedies which are effective to treate minor ailments, and decrease the cost of services provided, collaboration with the other sectors to render the services for rural areas etc