Ethics - Changes in the American Health Care System
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Consider the costs associated with the American healthcare system, the contentions associated with managed care implementation, and the continued problems associated with macro and microallocation within this system.
1.What ethics do you believe should guide continuing change in the American health care delivery system?
2.Why?
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In terms of changes, this solution examines the ethics that should guide continuing change in the American health care delivery system and why. References and a link for a related article are also provided.
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1. What ethics do you believe should guide continuing change in the American health care delivery system? (1 to 2 Paragraphs)
This is an ongoing debate, and perhaps there should be shared ethical principles for everybody in health care (Tavistock Group, 1999). However, although there is no one guiding ethical code for all facilities, as they are designed to fit the needs of the organization, one can instead look to one ethical guiding principle that all codes should include. In other words, the continuing change in the American health care delivery system should be guided by what might be described as the fidelity of health care. This is independent of the efficacy or effectiveness of interventions-fidelity is the extent to which the system provides patients the precise interventions they need, delivered properly, precisely when they need them (Woolf & Johnson, 2005). It is dependable and reliable health care delivery system to avoid medical errors and premature ...
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