Access to Care

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Access to Care

Introduction

The primary goal of health care system and services is to promote and restore the health status, as well as engage in disease prevention and palliation for the whole population of a country. In the United States, many people are unable to access to timely care, which makes this service unreliable. It may be due to their poor financial status, the unavailability of quality services and the inefficient health care system. It becomes difficult for people to get the health care they need and if they access the expensive services it makes them suffer with large medical bills. This essay aims to define the access top care and the factors that might affect it. It explains that the equity to access can be achieved by balancing the equal distribution of health care services to the people who need it.

Discussion

Access to care is a program that helps one to find healthcare at low cost. It is the measure of each one's accessibility to the basic health care services. It is mainly composed of four components including coverage, services, timeliness and workforce. In recent times, it has become an unresolved issue and has proposed serious challenges to the health care department of USA. In America, many people do not have access to the health care insurance or find difficult to avail quality healthcare services because the health care services are distributed on the basis of income level, employment, gender, ethnic group etc (www.healthysummit.org).

Supply of services is an important factor that affects the access to health care. It ensures that people have access to an unusual and ongoing source of care that helps them to live a better life with fewer disparities and costs. Service availability would help to achieve health equity and make people live ...