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Antoinette Price
Health Reform Paper
2-17-16

Healthcare in America is changing at a rapid pace. The last time healthcare was moving this fast it was during the time that Medicare was launched. In this nation twice as much money per person is being spent on healthcare. The U.S. had the lowest score overall in quality, access, efficiency, equity, and healthy lives when in comparison to six other nations. There was also a lack of good chronic care management, care coordination, safety, and also the use of information technology. “The Supreme Court’s decision in June to largely uphold the constitutionality of the patient protection and affordable care act will mean the health reform implementation will proceed at a rapid pace” (healthaffairsblog). The congressional budget office plans to have about 23 million people insured by 2022. “New federal financial opportunities including the Medicare shared savings program, dual-eligible demonstrations pioneer accountable care organizations bundled payments, and numerous primary care initiatives are setting the stage to reward healthcare providers for patient care that is higher quality, more efficient, and more effective overall” (healthaffairsblog). In today’s society there is a fee-for-service payment model that rewards doctors and hospitals based on the service rather than the quality. Patients have little to no information about health cost and quality. There are many efforts to fix these problems so that each person has the information, tools, and financial incentive to make the healthcare system better. According to the video, I would say that our current healthcare system is an example that requires government intervention. The reason being is because in the video she stated that the government had a lot of things regarding healthcare that could be fixed. The healthcare reform bill is a guide to what