Introduction: Healthcare the instrument by which commercialization, commodification and medicalization further stimulates the disparities among social class, by decreasing the mortality and morbidity death rates among certain socioeconomically challenged demographic areas. How does one even begin to unpack the mountains of data that support these various disparities among social class. How can we implement a healthcare delivery system capable of caring for all, without bias, without ethnicity, without social class or one’s ability to pay?
Each citizen has a right to affordable healthcare, just the same as those who are fortunate enough to have it, or fortunate enough to afford to pay for it. This fact alone should be a true cause for action, to build a healthcare delivery system that can provide preventative “Affordable” care for all. Our current health system, along with the pharmaceutical industry, biomedical company’s and managed care systems, (insurance companies) all use their power to influence the perspectives of such dominant groups. The deviant activities of these groups and/or individuals who wish to further promote their products, thus influencing our view of treatment options for certain social or medical conditions. Thus resulting in the further commercialization of treatments, prescriptions, and procedures that the consumer and physician feel are necessary. If we can stop the source of some of the cause and effects here we can drastically reduce the downstream costs of dealing with the aftermath. This means we must look up stream at the source of some of these issues. One program that is already being used across this country and in hundreds of industries is termed “Lean Manufacturing or “Muda”, reducing waste, value stream mapping and it begins at the top of any organization. Although our reading did not cover any type of waste trimming program, I feel it is something many organizations can implement verily quickly, and begin seeing results and before any type of real reform is addressed with Obama care. However, before “Lean Manufacturing” can be effective the organization must have 100% buy in from upper management, CEO’s, to CFO, of each organization including government run agencies, managed care systems, and both public and private sector insurer’s. Then all low hanging fruit as it were, or dead weight, inefficiencies, ineffective treatments, ineffective medications, or procedures, ineffective doctors, can and should be removed swiftly. I feel many of these areas will never be improved if these drastic measures are taken. Another similar performance based practice being implemented is called fee for performance, which basically rewards doctors who deliver results and weeds the ones out who cannot abide within the conditions of the system. In order to reduce waste, and improve efficiencies at every level within our healthcare …show more content…
If it can work in these companies, it can work in healthcare and this is evident among many organizations who are already using it to transform the way they care for their patients and their staff in addition to reducing operational costs. I also feel that the insurance markets, pharmaceutical industry, and other powerful groups, would benefit from this system.
As our healthcare system becomes more technologically centered and as curative medicine continues to increase these capital expenditures, in turn increasing costs, and profitability. By focusing on individual outcomes, the role of the environment causing illness will be obscured, thus the capitalist organization primary focus will be on production, which will be protected. This is the type of healthcare system we do not need, nor can we afford, but we see this already happening among larger healthcare organizations. New treatments, new drugs, new-biomedical research, new equipment, and new technologies mean, huge capital expenditures. This creates a huge financial burden to our already overburdened health care system, making the cost of care and insurance un-affordable for many Americans. As health care becomes more commodified subject to market trends, health care becomes more like other products and services we buy. We are now consumers of health care in some cases even when we are the patient, picking and choosing the plan that fits our needs. As hospitals and health-care organization compete for our business, as seen in many television ads. We as consumers tend to conform to these social pressures and the norms portrayed by these companies. Thus we will continue to see the cost of health care increase making it harder to afford a typical insurance
Each citizen has a right to affordable healthcare, just the same as those who are fortunate enough to have it, or fortunate enough to afford to pay for it. This fact alone should be a true cause for action, to build a healthcare delivery system that can provide preventative “Affordable” care for all. Our current health system, along with the pharmaceutical industry, biomedical company’s and managed care systems, (insurance companies) all use their power to influence the perspectives of such dominant groups. The deviant activities of these groups and/or individuals who wish to further promote their products, thus influencing our view of treatment options for certain social or medical conditions. Thus resulting in the further commercialization of treatments, prescriptions, and procedures that the consumer and physician feel are necessary. If we can stop the source of some of the cause and effects here we can drastically reduce the downstream costs of dealing with the aftermath. This means we must look up stream at the source of some of these issues. One program that is already being used across this country and in hundreds of industries is termed “Lean Manufacturing or “Muda”, reducing waste, value stream mapping and it begins at the top of any organization. Although our reading did not cover any type of waste trimming program, I feel it is something many organizations can implement verily quickly, and begin seeing results and before any type of real reform is addressed with Obama care. However, before “Lean Manufacturing” can be effective the organization must have 100% buy in from upper management, CEO’s, to CFO, of each organization including government run agencies, managed care systems, and both public and private sector insurer’s. Then all low hanging fruit as it were, or dead weight, inefficiencies, ineffective treatments, ineffective medications, or procedures, ineffective doctors, can and should be removed swiftly. I feel many of these areas will never be improved if these drastic measures are taken. Another similar performance based practice being implemented is called fee for performance, which basically rewards doctors who deliver results and weeds the ones out who cannot abide within the conditions of the system. In order to reduce waste, and improve efficiencies at every level within our healthcare …show more content…
If it can work in these companies, it can work in healthcare and this is evident among many organizations who are already using it to transform the way they care for their patients and their staff in addition to reducing operational costs. I also feel that the insurance markets, pharmaceutical industry, and other powerful groups, would benefit from this system.
As our healthcare system becomes more technologically centered and as curative medicine continues to increase these capital expenditures, in turn increasing costs, and profitability. By focusing on individual outcomes, the role of the environment causing illness will be obscured, thus the capitalist organization primary focus will be on production, which will be protected. This is the type of healthcare system we do not need, nor can we afford, but we see this already happening among larger healthcare organizations. New treatments, new drugs, new-biomedical research, new equipment, and new technologies mean, huge capital expenditures. This creates a huge financial burden to our already overburdened health care system, making the cost of care and insurance un-affordable for many Americans. As health care becomes more commodified subject to market trends, health care becomes more like other products and services we buy. We are now consumers of health care in some cases even when we are the patient, picking and choosing the plan that fits our needs. As hospitals and health-care organization compete for our business, as seen in many television ads. We as consumers tend to conform to these social pressures and the norms portrayed by these companies. Thus we will continue to see the cost of health care increase making it harder to afford a typical insurance