Affordable Quality Health for All

There is a broad range of medical services available via Discount Health Care Programs. They provide primary, complementary and quality alternative solutions to meet a bunch of needs. Additionally, the individual cost savings associated with Discount HEALTHCARE Programs (DHCP) use can be substantial.

These programs are relevant because at the very least 48 million Americans have no medical insurance or are inadequately insured. But, there is "no free lunch." So, as the country has substantial experience delivering medical services by way of Medicaid, there are substantial issues with geographic distribution of services, appropriate access, services documentation, quality assurance, data storage, data security, and services payment, to name a few. Additionally, you can find significant challenges with financial accountability at all levels, and assuring reasonable ROI on time investment for providers willing to use cumbersome, documentation-heavy government programs. As such, there is no current, reasonable, all-encompassing, universal extension of Medicaid/Medicare. And, there are insufficient broad support of existing, too briskly cobbled together, Affordable Care Act based programs.

We are very familiar with government-funded public facilities, programs, and resources obtainable in a number of the better-financed regions of the country. Even there, efficient usage of services is frequently demonstrably significantly less than expected due to issues related to target population understanding, transportation along with other barriers to gain access to. And, regardless of the magnitude of the investment, a lot of the staff working at the facilities are marginally skilled and motivated to serve. Therefore, whether the programs are related to health, education, practical skills development, physical fitness, social enrichment or other, the combination of limitations of both the delivery sources and recipients yields suboptimal outcomes.

Even if the entire country were speckled with sufficiently commodious, well-appointed technologically and optimally staffed (relative to skills and attitudes) health facilities, there would be a ubiquitous question: "If we build it, will they come?" Approximately ninety (90) percent of the American population isn't Health Literacy (HL) proficient. This lack of HL proficiency adversely impacts general health status by way of poorer health behaviors, including some social activities, fitness habits, and health care decisions. Will the relative health illiterate use freely accessible, comprehensive health facilities sufficiently well?

Currently, inappropriate usage of health care services, due substantially to problems of access and poor HL decreases overall health outcomes and increases personal annual medical care expenditures regardless of what mix of insurance and government-supported care, and cash-basis services are employed.

In response, improving population Health Literacy proficiency should drive future administrative planning and medical care investment decisions. Enhancing Health Literacy and usage of Discount Health Care Programs (in the lack of national universal care) should be uppermost personal considerations in health care planning if we wish affordable, quality health for several.

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