Thursday, June 3, 2010

The reform bill affects on quality of health care

With the recent passing of the health reform bill the United States is taking a step forward in the progression of our health care system. There are many positive aspects of the bill that will prove to benefit millions of uninsured Americans. I do feel that economically we will all benefit from passing of the bill,but one area that might suffer is the quality aspect of health care. Honestly i can only see the reform bill having an adverse effect on the quality of care in the United States. Issues like the government possibly having a hard time funding the reform plan, thus taking away from technology research and overcrowding health care facilities give me the feeling this wasn't a good idea. How can our country afford to give everybody insurance? The answer is by raising taxes and decreasing funds put towards research. Technology is instrumental in the progression of medicine, and with all the funds being geared toward insuring the country we wont be able to find out easier less pain full ways to treat patients. Over crowding is the other quality issue that will be affected by this bill. As of right now we are short on physicians in this country and there will only be more patients as the bill becomes affective. This means longer wait times and shorter interactions with the physicians. Quality of care as we know it might cease to exist if something doesn't change within the next couple of years before the bill becomes active.

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