Florida passed its Certificate of Need (CON) process in 1973, it requires healthcare facilities to apply for approval from the state to expand existing facilities and to build new facilities. The emphasis is placed and making healthcare more affordable. According to Florida Hospital Association “process is to avoid the duplication of costly medical services.” (FHA, n.d.) Focusing my attention to acute care facilities specifically in south Florida CON does not allow for the consumer to received medical care at a reasonable cost; with no competition for care consumer at left at the mercy of the provider thus providing high-cost medical care and poor quality of services.
Healthcare is a business and like any other businesses where is the competition a choice, business tends to offer better service at a more competitive cost. Take a careful look at the South FL region in which I reside when the situation arises that someone needs to seek immediate medical care the options are limited, and the care of service is very poor. If an individual need to go to the ER immediately the emergency medical service takes a patient to the closest hospital that is available. The cost for these services is very high as they are for-profit hospitals …show more content…
It is hard to understand how it is so hard to see the need for acute care facilities in Florida when emergency room forever has no bed for patients. Visiting the emergency for and in terrible pain and the only option is to sit in the ER for hours on a chair waiting for a bed to be free before you can get care; an angry parent takes his. Her sick child to the ER and having to be sitting the ER hoping that your child will see a doctor soon. Unless the lawmakers can experience the poor quality of care that comes with the high cost of insurance they cannot see beyond the “need
Healthcare is a business and like any other businesses where is the competition a choice, business tends to offer better service at a more competitive cost. Take a careful look at the South FL region in which I reside when the situation arises that someone needs to seek immediate medical care the options are limited, and the care of service is very poor. If an individual need to go to the ER immediately the emergency medical service takes a patient to the closest hospital that is available. The cost for these services is very high as they are for-profit hospitals …show more content…
It is hard to understand how it is so hard to see the need for acute care facilities in Florida when emergency room forever has no bed for patients. Visiting the emergency for and in terrible pain and the only option is to sit in the ER for hours on a chair waiting for a bed to be free before you can get care; an angry parent takes his. Her sick child to the ER and having to be sitting the ER hoping that your child will see a doctor soon. Unless the lawmakers can experience the poor quality of care that comes with the high cost of insurance they cannot see beyond the “need