Bioethical and Political Issues

Bioethical and Political Issues 

Give an example of a political issue currently facing healthcare. What is the issue? Who is potentially affected by the issue? How could you address the issue in an ethical manner to minimize potential negative outcomes?

Then in two separate paragraph give your opinion to Kierston Burkins and Brenda Windham

Kierston Burkins

Healthcare is a very expensive market. Healthcare is a part of some of the gross domestic product and healthcare spending is more than 3.4 trillion (Pearl, 2018). Healthcare is very expensive, and most Americans cannot afford the costs if they become diagnosed with a serious illness or expensive prescriptions. Medicare is the insurance plan for seniors run by the government and what they do not pay, other commercial insurance companies that patients have as a secondary insurance make up the rest of the costs (Pearl, 2018). This causes the premiums and deductibles to be higher for secondary or commercial insurances. Higher deductibles make patients and their families pay more for their coverage and their healthcare expenses (Pearl, 2018). This affects not only the patients and their families in the Medicare enrollments but also other patients and families enrolled in other insurance programs. Healthcare is very important to Americans and this causes many issues to arise with political parties and politicians. Both political parties realize that these costs are issues for Americans and have may different ideas on how to fix it.

How could you address the issue in an ethical manner to minimize potential negative outcomes?

Understanding all sides of the healthcare insurance costs and how they affect patients in your hospital is essential to running a hospital. Insurance is how the hospital and their employees get paid, and cover the costs and tests that they ran. Using ethical behaviors when referencing insurance costs, coverages, and the tests patients need can minimize any negativity that can arise from these topics. Ethical manners are essential when referencing sensitive topics that will affect the treatment of the patient.

Brenda Windham

 Political issue -pertain to healthcare ethics is when it is relate to, or involves the state, or government, relating to its citizens over medical issue.

 Bioethical issue-pertains to healthcare ethics a medical policy or practice emerging from advances in biology and medicine subjected to moral discernment. How to reduce cost and improve quality and accessibility. Health reform gets more complicated, The overarching trend, indeed, has been toward states autonomy in healthcare policy.

Healthcare organization, especially the ones doing business in multiple states, should strengthen compliance and local advocacy effects. In an unsettling environment, health organization should focus on understanding hoe potential policies would specifically affect their business programs and construct validation ranges for those policies. Healthcare should regularly re-evaluate contract with healthcare middleman. Demanding greater transparency and prioritize models based on outcome-which drives better clinical management.