Cost and Management of Care

Patients are very concerned about how can they afford health care services with the rising health care cost. Affordable Health Care Act is the program that has one and only purpose to ensure that patients are safe through health care. Regrettably, in the process of ensuring patient safety it has created a change in the pay ability for services, which ultimately reduced the opportunity for patients to have basic and important procedures completed. The rising health care cost is being measured inaccurate. According to Kaplan and Porter, “In 2011, health care spending used about seventeen percent of the national gross Domestic Product and it continues to increase. Instead of looking at the cost of care for a specific procedure, the healthcare arena has appraised the cost of specialty or departmental cost of a patient’s procedure” (2011, para.1).  Furthermore, incorrect payments and billing of patients procedure cost feign the expertise of care.

For the health care sector, having a value is a goal. To achieve that goal, patient needs to properly measure the value in the outcomes and the cost at patient level. Also, outcomes should be measured from recovery to survival. One more part of value that needs to be important is to measure the cost for delivery of outcomes. Rising health care cost has become burden to all Americans. A more balanced technique when it comes with dealing with health care cost is the biggest obstacle that America has for the economic status not to breakdown completely.