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This is a 5 page paper that provides an overview of health care legislation. Recent and pending legislation is reviewed for its impact on delivery, quality, insurance, and financial aspects of health. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. The Various Dimensions of Health Care Legislation , 1/2011
--properly! Health care legislation can be a complex and labyrinthine topic which is overwhelming in terms of both accessibility and comprehension.
This is because the health care industry is one that is somewhat different from both other industrial sectors, in that it deals with the commodity of human life, and as
such requires a great deal more administrative oversight, and interacts significantly with the spheres of law, ethics, and government as a whole. For this reason, a huge amount of health
care legislation is put forward each year, and it can be difficult to follow it all. This paragraph helps the student define the functions of health care in the US.
The topic becomes a lot easier to digest when one looks at the sprawling industry of "health care" in the United States, at least the part of the industry which
interacts with legislation most often, as a combine of four sub-functions: financing, insurance, delivery, and quality. Financing refers to the channels through which health care institutions acquire their funding, whether
its public, private, or some synthesis of the two. Insurance refers both to the insurance rates doctors have to pay to protect against litigation, and the insurance that individuals must
hold in order to receive treatment at most hospitals and clinics. Delivery refers to the particular mechanisms through which the industry dispenses the commodity of "health care", including doctor-patient interactions,
the structure of clinics and hospitals, and public health initiatives. Quality, of course, refers simply to the quality of health care available in the industry as a whole, in terms
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