Health care reform
Health care reform is "innovation and improvement of the health care system by reappraisal, amendment of services, and removal of faults and abuses in providing and distributing health services to patients. It includes a re-alignment of health services and health insurance to maximum demographic elements (the unemployed, indigent, uninsured, elderly, inner cities, rural areas) with reference to coverage, hospitalization, pricing and cost containment, insurers' and employers' costs, pre-existing medical conditions, prescribed drugs, equipment, and services."[1]
Regarding the increases in cost of the health care sector in the United States, one cost-benefit analysis concluded, "on average, the increases in medical spending since 1960 have provided reasonable value."[2]
Regarding the opportunity cost of primary prevention of diseases, one analysis concluded, "opportunities for efficient investment in health care programs are roughly equal for prevention and treatment."[3]
References
- ↑ Anonymous (2024), Health care reform (English). Medical Subject Headings. U.S. National Library of Medicine.
- ↑ Cutler DM, Rosen AB, Vijan S (August 2006). "The value of medical spending in the United States, 1960-2000". N. Engl. J. Med. 355 (9): 920–7. DOI:10.1056/NEJMsa054744. PMID 16943404. Research Blogging.
- ↑ Cohen JT, Neumann PJ, Weinstein MC (February 2008). "Does preventive care save money? Health economics and the presidential candidates". N. Engl. J. Med. 358 (7): 661–3. DOI:10.1056/NEJMp0708558. PMID 18272889. Research Blogging.