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Organizational Responsibility and Current Health Care Issues
HCS545
November 26, 2012
Charles Barron
Organizational Responsibility and Current Health Care Issues
The future focus of health care is on quality. Health care organizations and providers will receive reimbursement based on the quality of care. Under the Affordable Care Act the focus is quality of care, and it will hold providers accountability for his or her actions. This is a focus that has become necessary to promote a healthier America, and to weed out health care services that are inadequate. This student will review the future of the quality of health care, and evaluate corporate structure, governance, culture, and social responsibility.
Current Health Care Issue
There always has been an issue regarding the quality of health care. Over the years the public’s dissatisfaction has grown. Surveys have shown a decline from19% to 13%, which the public believes that the health care system functions well, but needs a few modifications. This survey also presented an increase from 28% to 37% that the health care system needs a total transformation. This dissatisfaction continues to grow, and Americans believe that the United States has one of the worst health care systems. Another issue is the dissatisfaction of the availability of affordable health care. President Clinton was one of the last president’s to attempt to reform health care prior to President Obama. After President Clinton, health care costs and spending have risen, and the population without insurance benefits has increased (Blendon, Brodie, Benson, Altman, & Buhr, 2006). President Obama was successful with his attempt to implement a health care reform policy and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) will begin to change to face of health care. The ACA will roll out different objectives each year that will focus on decreasing health care spending, expand services under Medicare and Medicaid, and medical...