HEALTH CARE POLICY

Health Care Policy

Health Care Policy

Introduction

In most developed countries, health care is seen as the rights of citizens, the Government in the provision of health care should play a major role, but in the U.S., health care will not be seen as civil rights and the Government's main responsibilities, financing and delivery of health care services, the private sector play a leading role, relying on market mechanism, oppose government intervention? Result, the United States was reluctant to establish a social insurance scheme, and the public think that these plans are too generous (Kasper, 2002).

The role of government in health care is committed to addressing the main issues and noted the negative effects, such as rising costs, bureaucratic rigidity, excessive regulation, red tape, inconsistent implementation of rules and regulations, fraud and malpractice, the compensation schedule failed subjective demand for payment to non-payment, consumers and service providers are not satisfied, tends to promote dependency on welfare and cannot expand employment and other accusations of government programs (Wolf, 2006). Government expenditure is mainly confined to the private sector to fill the gap, such as environmental protection, preventive services, disease control, special population health, mental illness and chronic disease were hospitalized, and the poor health care, research and training.

The topic of this research paper is “Health care policy analysis. The purpose of this research is to analyze history and origin of the policy, methodology and the Impact of health care policy on my field.Discussion

Health care policies are all policy choices of governments and private to improve the health status of populations under their responsibility: it has some main focus areas:

Determine the areas and fields of intervention

Clarify objectives and make informed choices on priorities

Programming means to be committed to this level of collective responsibility.

A health policy thus, brings together health plans (health policy) and health programs. As well as health systems are not limited to health care systems, and it would be wrong to limit health policies with the policies of health care (Freeman, 2007). It must be recognized that the bulk of expenditure in the health sector are generally devoted to the expenses of health care, mainly curative. Evaluation of health care policy is an extremely important aspect of state due to the fact that it allows us to determine the degree of influence exerted by holding one or another policy of the country. Professional law of health care includes professionals' responsibilities in the collaboration, especially with the doctor, the legal status of the patient and self-determination and the care and health insurance law and other regulations that affect the performance itself, such as the home advantage (Wilson, 2006).

In the USA, which ratified the only health is not considered a right but a service that is accessed when one means to do so. In other words, your enjoyment is left to the possibilities of every citizen. Health care policy addresses issues such as collective and individual in terms of service quality, facility, and equipments of health care, regarding the right of individuals to health ...