Health Care Reform

Health Care Reform is a general term used to describe the changes in health policy that affect health care delivery in a given place. Health care reform typically attempts to:

• Broaden the population that receives health care coverage through either public sector insurance programs or private sector insurance companies
• Expand the array of health care providers consumers can choose among
• Improve the access to health care specialists
• Improve the quality of health care
• Give more care to citizens
• Decrease the cost of health care

History

Health care reform has been a global issue over the years and the United States has the highest level of spending in the world. However, although the U.S. is the top health care spender, health care access, quality, and efficiency are among the worst in the developed world.

Health Care Reform in the United States

In the United States, the debate regarding health care reform includes questions of a right to health care, access, fairness, sustainability, quality and amounts spent by government. The mixed public-private health care system in the U.S. is the most expensive in the world, with health care costing more per person than in any other nation, and a greater portion of gross domestic product (GDP) is spent on it than in any other United Nations member state except for East Timor (Timor-Leste).

See Also

• Health policy
• Health insurance
• Public health

References

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