Every year, the United States wastes approximately 1.2 trillion dollars on health. That’s half of the 2.2 trillion dollars “budget” that the United States Government allows to be spent on healthcare each year. There are several different sections throughout this field in which money is being wasted but one of the biggest would have to be on unnecessary testing.
Most doctors order test or procedures not based on the need for them but their concern over liability which is increasing their personal income. This is called “defensive medicine.” The motivation for these extra test and procedures are often to avoid malpractice law-suits or to increase their yearly income. Doctors are compensated more for doing more on their day-to-day …show more content…
The government understands the fact that there is money being wasted, but there is simply no desire to incorporate useful and intelligent information for better treatment, records of the outcomes of these treatments, and the information that comes from these treatments to prevent and reduce the chance of unnecessary duplicate treatments. The state of the healthcare system is poorly managed and disorganized. Our healthcare system would benefit more from having a strong single corporation that has organized planning and spending. An effective solution to the major over-spending in the healthcare field would be to establish a new system of responsibilities and guidelines that correspond with different members throughout the healthcare field. This way, someone will be accountable to provide essential management and offer a proper guideline on how the money will be used.
The most far-reaching effort to contain health care cost to date would be the Affordable Care Act. This new effort contains a vast presentation of reforms to the way health care is delivered and paid for. These reforms will not just reward the quantity of care, but also the merit and value of care. These messages to the government are already provoking some, but little, change throughout the health care
Most doctors order test or procedures not based on the need for them but their concern over liability which is increasing their personal income. This is called “defensive medicine.” The motivation for these extra test and procedures are often to avoid malpractice law-suits or to increase their yearly income. Doctors are compensated more for doing more on their day-to-day …show more content…
The government understands the fact that there is money being wasted, but there is simply no desire to incorporate useful and intelligent information for better treatment, records of the outcomes of these treatments, and the information that comes from these treatments to prevent and reduce the chance of unnecessary duplicate treatments. The state of the healthcare system is poorly managed and disorganized. Our healthcare system would benefit more from having a strong single corporation that has organized planning and spending. An effective solution to the major over-spending in the healthcare field would be to establish a new system of responsibilities and guidelines that correspond with different members throughout the healthcare field. This way, someone will be accountable to provide essential management and offer a proper guideline on how the money will be used.
The most far-reaching effort to contain health care cost to date would be the Affordable Care Act. This new effort contains a vast presentation of reforms to the way health care is delivered and paid for. These reforms will not just reward the quantity of care, but also the merit and value of care. These messages to the government are already provoking some, but little, change throughout the health care