Health care services in United States

Health care services in United States

Introduction

People in today's world are taking advantage from health care services for various causes such as to cure health conditions and illness, to recover tears and breaks, to delay or prevent future problems regarding their health, to enhance life's quality and reduce pain and at times only to acquire information related to their prognosis and health status. The utilization of the services of health care can appear to be inappropriate as well as appropriate, of low or high quality, inexpensive or expensive (CDC, n.d.).

The system of health care delivery in today's world has been experiencing tremendous modifications and there has been a great change in past decade's short period. Emerging and new technologies including devices, drugs, imaging machinery, tests and procedures have altered the structures of care as well as care sites. The progress and emergence in ambulatory surgery has been undergone through various improvements in analgesia and anesthesia and also by the development of minimally invasive or noninvasive techniques. The emergence in the new drugs helped in curing the disease in shorter period. Thus, health care services play a significant and inevitable role in the provision of high quality health care to the patients (CDC, n.d.).

Discussion

Role of pharmaceutical industry

The pharmaceutical industry pays and effective and inevitable role in the provision of health care services to the patients and also helps in maintaining and providing health within the society. The pharmaceutical industry drives innovation and improvement of the contemporary drugs. This industry produces and tests these new drugs carefully for the use of human beings. Moreover, the pharmaceutical industry acts like a factor in the economic growth of the world (CDC, n.d.).

Experimentation and discovery is the basic role of pharmaceutical industry which produces effective impacts on the health care system of the world. The innovation of drugs is being funded efficiently and it is being driven through profit. Public Funding for the research of drugs is somehow limited because taxpayers pay these public funds. However, business people posses the funds which confronts with the risk on a possible money producing products. Pharmaceutical companies have brought many great and incredible innovations in penicillin, contraceptive pill and in other vaccines and antibiotics which have been useful in saving thousands of lives in the history (CDC, n.d.).

Weakness in pharmaceutical industry

There are several weaknesses and challenges that the pharmaceutical industry in confronting in recent century. The pharmaceutical industry is facing many challenges such as price pressures, competition from generics, political pressures, social pressures, rising complexity and cost, drug and food administration, drug development, marketing trends and disease management. According to the research, it has been observed that drug development has become costly because of high research and risk intensiveness of pharmaceutical industry. It has been estimated that almost 50 percent of the money for the development has been spent on such products which could never reach to the markets. Thus, the major weakness of the pharmaceutical industry is its high complexity and ...