Discussion: Defining the Future of Healthcare Policy in Practice

Discussion: Defining the Future of Healthcare Policy in Practice

Access to care, cost of care, and quality of care: what do they have in common?  As you’ve learned, they are dimensions of performance used to assess a healthcare system (e.g., addressed in Assignment #2), which also makes them an important policy issue. In your Learning Resources this week, Barr (2016) states that “the conundrum of U.S. health care [is] that all three [exist] simultaneously and that attempting to remedy one [will] inevitably affect the others” (p. 355). For example, if we try to control costs, then we either have to decrease access to care and/or compromise quality of care. With this in mind, what do you think is the best course for healthcare policy to follow in the future?

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You have spent much of the last five weeks examining how others have created the current state of healthcare policy. In this final Discussion, you will assume the role of policy maker and create a policy that addresses access to care, quality of care, or cost of care. Recall that some of the performance dimensions have multiple indicators. For example, patient safety is an indicator of quality of care. Similarly, having medical insurance is an indicator of access to care.