medical care a right or a service
Respond to the two post below:
Response One:
The definition of a Right: An entitlement, a power, privilege, demand, or claim possessed by a person (The Free Dictionary, 2019). The definition of a Service: An act or a variety of work done for others, especially for pay (The Free Dictionary, 2019).
I believe that Medical Care is a Service. It is something that is provided in return for payment. The cost of healthcare is rising. Individuals do not choose when they will become ill, or what they will be diagnosed with. Healthcare needs to be patient centered and based around the needs of its patients (Porter & Lee, 2013). It needs to be cost effective. Patients have to be able to afford the care that they are receiving. Value has to be improved without increasing healthcare cost and cost need to be decreased without affecting patient outcomes.
There are several terms that are used interchangeably however, they are actually not the same at all. Individuals, healthcare services and providers need to understand the difference in order to benefit from care and provide better care for those they serve.. Health insurance is not healthcare. Health insurance is not health. Health insurance is not a right. Healthcare is not health. Health is not a right. Individuals are smartest and healthiest when self-motivated to do so by natural consequences. No individual should be obligated to work for free or be extorted by federal government force to purchase items or services for others. Government regulations and third-party reimbursement increases costs and decreased efficiency. Direct patient pay for free market competing services is most efficient, cost effective and promotes excellence (Wax, 2017).
Healthcare is a service and the service providers have a responsibility to work as a team to increase the outcomes of patient care. The team can improve by comparing their delivery of care and cost with other providers.
Response Two:
I agree with the statement medical care is neither a right nor a privilege. Healthcare service is provided by health professionals to those who wish to purchase it. Healthcare is a business, a service. Healthcare also plays a huge role in the economy. Health care spending in 2017 was 17.9 percent of the Nation’s Gross Domestic Product, which equates to $3.5 trillion or $10, 739 per person (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 2018). The statements above may read cold and callus; however, at the end of the day it is about other people’s livelihoods, health insurances bottom lines, and programs to fund care for those without the means. We all need medical care, thus people (sellers) are going to provide it. Healthcare is a commodity.