Introduction
Rising costs of health care threaten our future system of health care matters such as sustainability almost every year. However, health care matters have also been threatened by shortages of nurses and doctors, some areas’ low productivity, provided services’ safety and decreasing confidence and trust of people. Any country’s health care matters should be improved and innovated so as to reach the creativity and flexibility levels that allow them to adapt demand changes. Health care matters are complex issues that that can go beyond a country’s affordability. Health care is the improvement or maintenance of one’s health through treatment, diagnosis and disease prevention. Fiscal health care address issues such as effective health promotion and disease prevention, effective health care and health systems, funding models designed to reach the targeted behavioral change, leveraging innovative technologies and setting of alignment strategies using health determinants (Porter & Teisberg 2006).
Sustaining health care and health requires approaches that are multi-faceted and that are beyond decisions based on the amount of money spent. Health care strategies should be guided by the following four principles: first, they should be guided by the principle based on the accountability of the obtained results. This principle ensures serious and accountable action on the distinct factors affecting health care matters and drives performance improvements. Secondly, they should be guided by the principle of money value. This principle ensures that the outcomes attained for the same levels of investment are better. Third, the strategies should be guided by the principle of timely and fair access. This principle ensures that, the population’s health is not affected and also avoids public confidence on the system. Finally, the strategies should be guided by the principle of appropriateness. This principle leads to the use of the best resources at the right time hence delivering the services aimed to result to improved and innovated health outcomes (Porter & Teisberg 2006).
Hospitals should work to rediscover healthcare and ensure continued access and equality through the use of effective and efficient healthcare services. Hospitals face significant cuts in the federal Medicare almost at the same times due to the increasing population and growing number of individuals insured. Value is always the bottom mark when it comes to fiscal health care matters: health care matters should be of high quality and should be delivered efficiently. Governments should channel some revenues so as to ensure that, hospitals provide quality care that is less costly and health is improved. Money should be earmarked for organizations that are accountable for Medicaid Care so as to avoid episodic care that is observed in some hospitals by identifying high frequency service user individuals (Thomas & Merrile 2008).
The quality and quantity of many interventions on health care are improved using scientific results of research. Government should rehearse its fiscal policy to ensure that, more money is channeled to health researchers. General taxation is another fiscal policy that can be used to fund health care system and ensure improved health care services. Donations, out-of-pocket payments, private or voluntary health insurance and social insurance for health can be used to fund health researchers who are ultimately depended when it comes to determination of medicines for newly discovered diseases (Thomas & Merrile 2008) .
Conclusion
Some people go without the medical treatment needed when they don’t for health insurances provided by government and they cannot afford private insurances for health. Therefore, governments should increase their expenditure on the health sector to avail uncompensated care for such individuals. Increase in the cost of health care services has been a serious primary factor leading to long-term deficits in many countries’ deficits (Thomas & Merrile 2008). This article contains more details on some topics that were briefly tackled during week 2. It also confirms on some research findings that were discussed during week 2.
References
Porter, M.E. & Teisberg, E.O. (2006). Redefining health care: creating value-based competition on results. Cambridge, Ma: Harvard Business Press
Thomas, M.S. & Merrile, S. (2008). “The Distribution of Public Spending for Health Care in the United States”. Health Affairs. 27(5): 349-359
