BHS450 Health Care Reform Mod 5 Case

Recommendations for Health Care Reform and their Comparison with Barack Obama’s Legislation Student Name Course Instructor Institution Date Due Introduction Over the last few decades experts and interest groups have been making recommendations necessary to ensure that the health care system in the United States undergoes reforms in order to enable effective delivery of health care (McDonough, 2011). This has been due to the fact that cost, coverage and quality problems have been evident. Hence health care system experts and interest groups such as physicians, health insurance executives, health policy experts, hospital administrators, business leaders, as well as economists are advocating for health care reform that are sustainable and that go beyond financially oriented health care access to ensure improved delivery of health care (Bunce & Matthews, 2007). This has made these experts to propose various recommendations that would go a long way in ensuring that health care system in the United States is improved. The National Health Insurance Plan legislation which was signed into law by President Obama provisions to some extent fits into the proposed recommendations while other provisions do not. The purpose of this legislation is to ensure provision of health care coverage that is accessible to all Americans who are currently uninsured as well as helping those with health insurance covers towards retaining their coverage (Fuchs & Emanuel, 2005). Most of the provisions of this legislation became effective by the year 2010 (McDonough, 2011). This historic legislation is undoubtedly the most outstanding health care system reform in the United States since the creation of Medicaid and Medicare. However, despite the fact that a massive regulatory effort looms it is also highly likely that in the future this bill may end up being amended as more reforms become obviously inevitable (Bunce & Matthews, 2007). Three recommendations for health care refor...