What happened to the traditional health care delivery system that we are all accustom? We are witnessing a change in the way health care recipients receive care. In this essay we will explore how health care is making a drastic change, stepping away from the traditional settings to a more patient center care approach. We will analyze how this change is affecting the cost of health care and determine of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has contributed to the sudden shift in health care delivery. Changes in the health care delivery setting aren’t actually sudden, this gradual modification dates back at least 10 years. A study performed over a five-year period, from 2006-2011 showed 5% decline in patent using hospital in Florida and Minnesota (Grube, Kaufman, York, 2013). Additionally, a similar study, concluded in 2012, in seven Illinois counties showed a drop of 47,000 patients between 2010-2012 in hospital use. Can we explain the decline and change in hospital centered care (York, Kaufman, Gruber, 2014)? In other words, the question should actually be what cause these changes in the health care delivery system. Some suggested causes of the change are; Hospital Cost Increase, Provider Pricing, Medical Technology, and Unhealthy lifestyle choices, just to name a few (Foundation Recovery Network, 2016). Simple put, it cost more money to build a large hospital type facility than a smaller outpatient/ambulatory care center. While state of the art Medical Treatment
