The Forces Affecting the System
Evangeline Hampton
HAS/500
November 5, 2013
Doctor Debra Beazley

Abstract

The forces, which have affected the development of the health care system in the United States, are economics, technology and legal. The functioning of the health care system in economic development has become an influential issue. Health care is a predominant industry in the United States and is expected to develop further. Health care performance influences the economic growth in several rural communities. The health care system could be an influential organization and supplier of economic development or unimportant segment of the local economic model (Shinberger, 2005). As medical technology evolves, understanding how and when to adopt or invest in it is critically important. Move too early, and the infrastructure needed to support the innovation may not yet be in place; wait too long, and the time to gain competitive advantage may have passed. The economics affects the competition, which exists with the development of technology. The improvement in health care reports economic tasks: capital for the advance change and considering the parties responsible for the cost, and expenses for the product or service it yields. One difficulty is the time-consuming speculation period necessary for different medications or therapies, which needs the food and drug administration approval.

Economics, Technology and Legal The health care segment is an essential factor of the United States economy. The United States doesn’t supply health care for the nation using methods supporting the technologically globe. The (IT) information technology is the influence to succeed significant quality development.

Economics

In the United States, the budget affects the development relations between employment, health analysis and expenses, and economic approach to healthcare results. The effects of economic importance and surges are experimental precisely, and can surface in less obvious ways that can vary markedly across markets. In a system where employment-based coverage plays a dominant role, understanding the impact of economic shocks such as the current recession presents difficult analytical issues (Michael Chernew, 2009).
Technology

The second force is data, and interaction technology. The (IT) information technology is the influence to succeed significant quality development. The use of (IT) information technology can enhance the approach for communication, which deliver facts, results, and decision making. .

Legal Force

The United States doesn’t supply health care for the nation using methods supporting the technologically globe. The alternative for ensuring coverage supporting citizens; The United States depends on a mixed system of market-based organizations, which allows covered citizens’ future chances to get coverage as a term of employment, at some point qualified citizens’ can buy different policies and can get coverage from Medicaid. A relatively small number of those under age 65 – about 7 percent – purchase coverage in the individual market, and about two-and-a-half times that many – today roughly 45 million people – lack any kind of health insurance whatsoever (Kelton, 2007). The number of Americans without insurance would be even more staggering in the absence of government programs, such as Medicaid and which have provided insurance for millions of low-income families (particularly children) when their employment-based coverage was lost In total, the government picks up the tab for almost 18 percent of the non-elderly population. Many of the law’s relevant provisions take effect in 2014. Our research suggests that when employers become more aware of the new economic and social incentives embedded in the law and of the option to restructure benefits beyond dropping or keeping them, many will make dramatic changes. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that only about 7 percent of employees currently covered by employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) will have to switch to subsidized-exchange policies in 2014. Political forces terminated the discussion of the mutual health maintenance organizations’ (Gaynor, 2013)

Speculations

The percentage of development in health care disbursements in the United States has exceeded the development access in the gross domestic product (GDP), population, and price increase, decades. “Relating the access of 1940 and 1990, the yearly level of development in tangible health cost per capita span starting at 3.6% in the 1960s to 6.5% in the 1990s” (unknown). Compatibly, the segment of gross domestic products reported the health care expenses surged from 4.5% in 1940 to 12.2% in 1990. In 2005 health care expenses was close to $2 trillion, or $6,697 per capita, which represents 16% of gross domestic products (Kelton, 2007). The sustained increase in U.S. health spending over the previous four and half decades is likely to continue, and total spending on health is projected to reach $4 trillion, 20% of gross domestic production, by 2015. Defining how economic depression affects insurance coverage as a result needs to take a variety of factors into account, including what types of jobs, with what levels and generosity of insurance benefits, are lost, and what other forms of coverage are available to different populations. The combining of health care suppliers or underwriters can enhance effectiveness, and improve the cost reduction, merging will initiate the conflicting force, given adjoining-controls with in particular markets and increasing cost. Clinics are gradually purchasing competitors and immediately hiring general practitioners, establishing bigger health systems. As part of its Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) program, AHRQ sponsored a systematic review to evaluate the evidence on interventions to reduce medical errors and improve patient safety. There could be streamlining and decentralization in the profession next decade. It will allow non-doctors to perform specialized duties and in the meantime freeing up doctors for the most vital aspects of healthcare. The system has many health care providers and agencies in the complex network, and many patients receive information from several physicians and insurance companies; the information and data shared should have lesser errors and the facilities have certain guidelines to follow when data is involved (Tan, 2011).
Technology

The (IT) information technology show the possibility to significantly further the quality of health care, the fact, that (IT) information technology increase important health related results is limited (Eduardo Ortiz, 2003). The (IOM) Institute of Medicine has authorized the use of (IT) information technology a segment of the strategic plan to improve quality of care in the U.S. reports “Although the potential benefits of IT are compelling, the evidence in support of these benefits varies greatly by type of application” (Eduardo Ortiz, 2003). The AHRQ paid for a current research and authorized this assertion. The Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) program and AHRQ sponsored a systematic review to evaluate the evidence on interventions to reduce medical errors and improve patient safety. The nations’ health care is safer, and provide a critical analysis of patient safety practices, and discovered, that there was relatively little evidence that computerized physician order entry (CPOE) with clinical decision support or other (IT) information technology improvements provides better quality or developed results about different praxis settings (Eduardo Ortiz, 2003). Technological growth in the health sector reflects the importance of the rare trend.

Conclusion . Health care in the United States is priceless compared to care in other nations with national health insurance because of the role of special interests in the American political system concerning the (IT) information technology.

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