Healthcare Coverage- a Biiter Pill to Swallow.
The cost of covering America's seniors and medically indigent is progressively sky rocketing from year to year but the quality of service and over all care keep on going done, because most of the healthcare dollars are being spent on the commodities side not on providing care. Cost of covering prescription drugs and providing diagnostics etc., have been consistantly going higher and higher, while the rate of reimbursements to providers, i.e; doctors, pharmacists and other care givers been going down. So the incentive is spend increasingly more money on the commodity items with rewards and kick backs built in, not in cutting these costs and rewarding the care givers to provide better care. It has been done at state level before in nineties when physicians were given incentive pay to be on call at night to curb emergency room visits and pharmacists were given capitation per patients to manage their drug therapies with cheaper and generic substitution with in the therapeutic classes of prescription drugs.
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Ken-Powell commented
Ashok,
If your overall point is that the focus is on cost and not quality of care, I agree with you. It is amazing to watch Obamacare supporters equate healthcare coverage with quality of healthcare delivery and access to innovative, life-saving technologies. Countries like England with their National Health System vividly illustrates this point. Although many have coverage, the access not to mention the wait for critical procedures is well documented. The same is true for Canada, which is why so many Canadians with the ability travel to the US or elsewhere, when time and access are non-negotiable variables.