equity in access
The Players: Patient, Healthcare Professional, Public
What can the Obama administration get right or wrong on health care?
This is a WebBook--a compilation of my weekly blog published by MDNG.com; it is written by experts whose only agenda is health care improvement.
Source: "Managed Care in 2010: Ethical Dilemmas, Our Challenges, and the Potential for a Healthy Future."
6. Access Problems
When patients require specific therapies and an insurance company makes the frail or sickly patients jump thru hoops, denying or delaying care, it's time to move away from the insurance model.
Equity in Access
Guadalupe Benitez, a lesbian, after receiving fertility drugs for 11 months at the only clinic to provide infertility treatment under her insurance plan, was denied insemination.
Discouraging Care
Massachusetts intends to put doctors and hospitals at risk. Sound like managed care? Well it is.
