Medicaid Case Study

Medicaid was designed to help children like Jackie’s and provide the necessary care under the ideal. I think several parties are to blame for the failure of what came to be a harmful healthcare program. It failed in providing a quality healthcare that is accessible to those who need it. Accessibilty was limited as a result of the sparsity in doctors and health facilities and an abnormal wait times for appointments.
Federal government are supposed to collect data reports from States and establish clear statistics that show the overall progress of healthcare systems. The inadequate supervision of State healthcare protocols allowed for such scary statics of unimmuned children to go unnoticed for so long. Also, the outdated rigidity of some federal policies delayed appropriate intervention. As mentioned in the book, the shortage in staff was a known issue to the amongst health agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). But due to the specificity of budgetary distribution policies, CDC could not …show more content…
In this unfortunate scenario, the State’s economic choices did not help prepare local health centers for the influx of newly Medicaid eligible patients. State is supposed to oversee the activities of local health centers, but it failed to identify the lack of follow-up procedures, unwarranted patient’s deferment, and health official’s immoral disregard for patient-informed choices. Finally, local health centers had the acute responsibility of upholding the standards of health care delivery established by the State and Federal government. However, they undeniably failed to meet those standars when they decided to play God and personally choose who gets treatment. Not to mention the immoral choice of workers at the local Ogden IDPA office to turn the other check and not mention Bethel New