FUTURE TRENDS IN HEALTH CARE

Future Trends in Health Care



Future Trends in Health Care

Introduction

Health care in the United States has been revolutionized by the introduction of managed care. Used by both public and private, managed care is an alternative to the remuneration of health services. In arrangements of managed care, financing and delivery of health care is provided through contracts with hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, health agencies, home care, and other suppliers. It has been described as a system of health care in which a variety of methods are used to contain the costs of services while maintaining quality of care. The main types of managed care plans include arrangements for indemnity, preferred provider organizations, exclusive provider organizations, point of service plans, organizations and health maintenance. This paper discusses Future Trends in Health Care.

Discussion

Spurred by the escalating costs of health care, managed care has skyrocketed over the last ten years. Recent statistics indicate that about 65 percent of people insured by employers, or 50 million people are served by some form of managed care. State Medicaid systems increasingly are turning to forms of care have succeeded in providing health care.

Some managed care offers an affordable alternative to health insurance. On the other hand, a growing number of individuals believe they receive less adequate health care and fewer benefits of these schemes. For example, many employees pay a larger share of their premiums for health care and medical expenses. These concerns, coupled with the fact that the interests of the company to focus on dividend increases, creating an environment of health care practice full of pitfalls for the professional social worker.

Future of Health Care

In the last decade (1990s), the health care started getting worst because of the increase in the number of the people in the Medicaid program (scheme designed by United States of America to provide State and Federal funds for people needing assistance with medical expenses) resulting into the considerable increase in the expenditure of the Government for health care systems.

But then the managed health care system was introduced to improve health care and advantages for the Medicaid while reducing the expenses of Government. The Government of United States of America is continuously trying to establish a Universal health care system for making ease for the patients to universally approach to quality and economical health care as their right (Brilliant 2006). The future of health care depends on the following key aspects:

Training for Better Services

The doctors and nurses in the health center should be highly experienced and well trained. The nurses need be well behaved and smart so that their lovely smile can help curing the patient and entrusting him that the whole staff is caring for him to make him healthy to lead a normal life.

It is very important for the doctors to have a regular and timely checkup of the patients and the nurses need to give proper and timely treatment by giving medicines and injections on the right time while keeping the extensive records ...