POTENTIAL CHANGES FOR ENHANCEMENT OF MEDICARE.

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POTENTIAL CHANGES FOR ENHANCEMENT OF MEDICARE
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POTENTIAL CHANGES FOR ENHANCEMENT OF MEDICARE1
Advancement in heathcare facilities has significantly increased the chances of survival in
mortality-associated diseases along with reduced risks for complex surgical procedures.
Affordable Care Act or Obamacare identifies behavioral health as one of the key factors
involved in individual health and diagnostic approach taken by medical practitioner.
Multidisciplinary health professionals can cumulatively enhance the overall benefit of a
client’s health, reducing mortality and morbidity rate1. Contemporary health management
systems are considered insufficient as the cost of health services in US is significantly higher,
but the outcomes are not relatively efficient2. Several reasons include depression, stress,
anxiety, substance abuse and socioeconomic status.
Despite of all these efforts and allotment of huge amount of gross domestic income (GDP),
almost 18% of Americans of age <65 years have zero health insurance policies at their
disposal, which indicates that these endeavors were somehow lacking in reality. Inadequate
accessibility of healthcare facilities and arbitrary lifestyle are found to be major contributors
of adverse health issues. Other associated factors include lower basic income, unavailability
of a universal healthcare system, reluctance in primary and public healthcare, domestic and
criminal violence, high accidental cases, lack of fitness and poor behavioral health3.
The aforementioned data suggests, despite of initiating host of efforts from the government,
results were futile and wasted a significant amount of annual GDP. Most significant
disadvantage in healthcare management is the centralized idea of government-sponsored
health insurances, which could not deliver the expected impact on the randomized population
1 Croft, Bevin, and Susan L. Parish. "Care integration in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act:
Implications for behavioral health." Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services
Research 40.4 (2013): 258-263.
2 Davis, Karen, et al. "Mirror, mirror on the wall." How the performance of the US Health care system compares
internationally. New York: CommonWealth Fund (2014).
3 U.S. health in international perspective: shorter lives, poorer health. Washington: Institute of Medicine of the
National Academies; 2013. Available from: http://www.nationalacademies.org/hmd/~/media/Files/Report
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