HEALTH CARE POLICY

Health Care Policy Analysis And Law Amendment

Health Care Policy Analysis And Law Amendment

Introduction

The topic of this research paper is “Health care policy analysis - stark law amendment to the health care policy”. The purpose of this research is to analyze the Impact of health care policy and the law amendment related to health care policy as well as the Stark Law Amendment to the health care reform policy.

Policies of health care (or health care policies) are all policy choices of governments and private to improve the health status of populations under their responsibility: it has some main focus areas:

determine the areas and fields of intervention

clarify objectives and make informed choices on priorities

Programming means to be committed to this level of collective responsibility.

A health policy therefore brings together health plans (health policy) and health programs. As well as health systems are not limited to health care systems, and it would be wrong to limit health policies with the policies of health care. It must be recognized that the bulk of expenditure in the health sector are generally devoted to the expenses of health care, mainly curative.

Evaluation of health care policy is an extremely important aspect of state due to the fact that it allows us to determine the degree of influence exerted by holding one or another policy of the country.

Professional law of health care includes professionals' responsibilities in the collaboration, especially with the doctor, the legal status of the patient and self-determination and the care and health insurance law and other regulations that affect the performance itself, such as the home advantage.(Dudley & Milstein, 2000)

Discussion

Health has the characteristic of being first, a right in itself and on the other, be enabling condition for the exercise of other rights. Sometimes the health status of a person varies depending on the degree of freedom which they live or living housing, access to adequate food, clothing and work.

A symptom of the difficulties in establish him as such, lies in the fact that when we had to translate into binding treaties the rights enshrined in the civil rights divided into two covenants: one political & civil rights, whose obligation was immediate and the other State should provide progressively, to the extent that it has the necessary resources.

This perverse division could not be understood if it is not within the framework of political debate that occurred in those years, the Cold War between the Western bloc led by the USA and the Soviet Union. Thus, while the former argued for civil and political rights, linked to the axis of freedom, the second required as priority economic and social rights, linked to the needs such as education, health, housing, rights branded expensive, because most investments require state compliance.

This dispute lasted for several years and ended in 1966 with the signing of two separate agreements, with varying effectiveness and enforcement. As a result, civil and political rights are immediately enforceable and binding, while that for economic, social and ...