Health Care Industry Analysis

The United States of America’s largest employment industry is the health care field (Shi & Singh, 2013, p. 79). The health care industry employees include physicians, technologists, and secretarial workers (Shi & Singh, 2013, p. 79). The fundamental employee that creates other positions in the health care industry is the physician. There are physicians who specialize in a certain field of health care or physicians that go into the family practice side of health care. In the United States of America, more than half of the physicians that are employed have become a specialist in a specific health field, which leaves a limited amount of physicians who practice in the family aspect of medicine (Shi & Singh, 2013, p. 86). Unfortunately, this has help to create a maldistribution of physicians has caused the population to be underserved, so that the population is not taking care of their health, or there is too much competition that causes the costs of health care to rise (Shi & Singh, 2013, p. 82). The government has tried to combat the maldistribution issue by giving money for the underprivileged, tax subsidies that created a financial incentive to not specialize in the medical field, and offer scholarships for physicians in family practice.
On September 25, 1962, President Kennedy signed into law the Migrant Health Act, which established federal …show more content…
86). The number of physicians per population did increase thanks to the subsidies, but it did not aid in the maldistribution of physicians (Shi & Singh, 2013, p. 87). In fact, after a few years of implementation, it caused a further maldistribution of physicians in the specialty and family practice field (Shi & Singh, 2013, p. 87). Some years passed before Congress tried to improve the huge gap between specialty and family practice