Health care II

Another problem with health care is the more than 40 million medically uninsured Americans. With such a large number of Americans not being able to purchase medical coverage (or not wanting it), then someone eventually must pay these costs in – at the very least – an emergency. Therefore, this puts another drain on the pocketbooks of either taxpayers or the medical community. Another stressor on health care system today is the affects of managed care on both the patient as well as the physician. In order to control costs, managed care companies have resorted to a micro-management style toward the physician by requiring preauthorization of referrals, monitoring physicians’ care of the patients, restricting medications, and disease management. This may hurt the patient because the physician is somewhat restricted as to how much the patient can be helped. The large managed care company usually does not know the patient’s medical history as well as the physician.