How Do Budget Cuts Affect Mental Health Services

How Do Budget Cuts Affect Mental Health Services

Introduction

The literature review is based on how budget cuts affect mental health services. The paper will discuss in detail how budget cuts in mental health inpatient hospitals affect the delivery of mental health services in inpatient hospital settings. Professional medical community today seriously concerned with the problems of health financing, due to several factors. Healthcare sector has faced many challenges in the past few years. The costs associated to healthcare have triggered massive financial discussion on the subject. Moreover, the moral and economic consequences of the decisions related to healthcare costs are also discussed highly. The stakeholders, including clinicians, healthcare organizations, government, society and patients are all highly affected by the results of rising costs of healthcare. The concerned authorities have started a heavy discussion on the subject that increasing costs of healthcare must be analyzed using a cost-benefit ratio approach. This has caused patients too much worry and concerns (Munetz et.al, 2006).

Healthcare is the most crucial right of all the people, even though US is one of the most developed and advanced countries the fact that it has not been able to devise an effective healthcare system which could provide the people with quality healthcare whenever they needed it. The government needs to realize the present situation in order to be able to establish the right course of action which can be taken on order to improve the system. There is evidently a problem in the over healthcare system which needs to be understood. The overall concept of preventive healthcare systems should only be considered for those patients who have just been treated for some chronic illness and there is a chance of reoccurrence. Otherwise the whole preventive care system and the fact that hospitals force patients to have regular checkups is only going to continue to harm the system. Hence through this study the researcher intends on identifying the reasons for such high costs and whether the need for preventive healthcare procedures is necessary. The role of the hospital and its administration will also be discussed in order to determine their role in pursuing patients in opting for preventive healthcare procedures (Berwick et.al, 2008).

The consequences of such financial reforms affect both the patient and doctor, and the entire health system in general. Thus, patients have acquired a particular choice of the medical organization and a doctor in case of unsatisfactory quality of medical services rendered - and more authority to challenge actions of doctors.

Discussion and Analysis

Government of United States has been faced with a number of problems, the situation of the nation today is getting fragile, the financing of healthcare has become an issue and since the country uses the best of the technology a rapid increase in the cost of providing healthcare has been experienced by the nation. The challenge that has been faced today by the government provide assistance to the insured individuals is becoming difficult due to ever increasing ...