The Importance Of Spending In Health Care

Introduction There is a prominent issue in America when resources bought from the money of the people are being constantly wasted. It is common knowledge that there is an exponential growth in the amount of money being spent annually on resources by health care administrations, most of which ends up becoming useless. There are administrators assigned to writing policies that can help cut the spending budget in order to reduce wasted materials, but there has still been no drastic change. An article published by the Health Affairs journal stated that in reducing spending, “a key target is eliminating waste – spending that could be eliminated without harming consumers or reducing the quality of care that people receive and that, according to …show more content…
A few classifications of areas with wasted resources comprise mistakes make in care distribution, communication errors, overtreatment, clerical complications, and over-pricing of services. An overlook through each aforementioned topic could become extensively helpful for an administrator seeking guidance on where to start making a change. First, there are plenty of wrong decisions made every day by health care professionals that have an effect on the patient. There is not a general sense of security for a patient to receive the same quality of care regardless of which hospital they go to, which means that some lack in productivity and efficiency. Classen et al. (2011) emphasized in their research that adverse events happened in roughly 1/3 of all admissions to a hospital. The previous finding in the study by Classen et al. is incredible to think about, because the chances of poor practices for a patient seeking care are one in every three people. A statistic that shows such lack of execution on behalf of professionals is embarrassing for both the hospital and country in