Where Has All The Quality Health Care Gone
Where Has All the Quality Health Care Gone? This paper will discuss the issue of quality health care, proposed legislation actions, the potential impact on professional nursing practice, and the potential impact of legislation on the quality of health care delivery to the consumer. Health care in California is in a crisis. Costs continue to skyrocket as access, affordability, and quality of care deteriorate. While many may think that the quality of health care is deteriorating because of the shortage of sufficiently trained healthcare professionals, it goes deeper than that. ... Unfortunately, it all boils down to the almighty dollar. This author questions why, in this great country of ours, do we make it so difficult for people to get quality health care. In our land of the free and home of the brave, the leaders of this country are so quick to jump in and spend billions and billions of dollars on helping other countries reach a democratic society and/or fighting unnecessary wars, while our own are suffering with illnesses they can’t treat or quality that isn’t up to par because of the lack of funding in the health care industry. ... ” Isn’t it obvious that to insure the health of our society, we must make health care affordable and accessible to everyone? Quality health care should not only be granted to the privileged. In 1998, the Healthy Families program was established to help working families in California provide adequate health care for their children. ... This means that 300,000 additional children in California are eligible to have access to comprehensive health care (www. ... If I have a family of four and make $45,000 and work for a company that doesn’t provide health benefits I would end up having to pay approximately $6,000 per year for basic coverage.