Standards of Health Care Evaluation 2

Standards of Health Care Evaluation
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Introduction
In the recent past, access of health care has been such a big problem that quality in health care has had to take second place in order for access to primary care to be made available. However, costs have become such a lingering problem that most have preferred to save money at the expense of reducing quality (Cutler, 2014). The objective of this essay is to discuss the relationship between costs and quality of health care.
Quality vs. Costs
As costs of providing care go up, quality should not go down due to shortcuts because the objective of the care should always be to provide quality. Failure to provide quality healthcare even if costs go up contributes to waste (Cutler, 2014). Low quality health care results in more disease reoccurrences. In fact, more money will be spent on treating ailments which should have been sorted in the first place.
Quality = Preventive
Another relationship that is vital to understand is that quality health care is a preventive measure which not only prevents continual spending, but quality health care entails that health providers sufficiently provide customers with pre...