Today, legislation focuses on improving care and the overall effects; health care cannot financially sustain itself unless continued cost-effective methods are applied. The continued rising costs in healthcare are evident in studies conducted in targeted areas; health care spending, managed care, and illegal immigrants receiving services. The following provided summarizes the critical areas in need of improvements and continued cost effectiveness analysis to provide sustainability in future health care.
Health Care Spending The clarity in today’s health care begins understanding the economic situation and the initiatives taken before the approval of health care reform in Two-Thousand and Ten. According to (Weinstein, M. C., PhD., & Skinner, J. A., Ph.D. (2010), in Two-Thousand and Nine the authorization in “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act” provided funding …show more content…
Bush” expressed during his state of the Union speech in Two Thousand and Five his goal to focus on improvements in patient and doctor communications soon after his stance to rapidly rising health care costs. However, according to Patricia Illingworth (2006), she does not believe that available research determines that trust in a doctor to patient relationships within managed care is resident, but rather brings concern. The rising costs of managed care have no single variable to pinpoint as the cause. The noticeable evolvement of policy makers certainly confuses the average patient, but rather policies implemented today are an attempt to save the future of health care. Additionally, care providers have invested in current trends by utilizing social media methods to establish trust between physician and patient and show some signs of improvement. Finally, the overall goal is to ensure adequate health coverage is provided to all citizens of the United States, but rather does not address the issue of uninsured patient