The speaker talks at great lengths about the different struggles the United States healthcare system faces in delivering quality care to patients. Unfortunately, these problems are neither uncommon nor passing in the near future. As health administrators, you will face them. For many of you, the barriers mentioned by the speaker will be some of your biggest challenges in meeting your facility’s goals.
Perhaps the largest barrier to care will always be money. Even if indirectly, money- or more precisely- the lack there of challenges health. Too often, patients are quickly labeled “non-compliant”, when really they are “unable to be compliant”. The passing of the ACA offered relief in some areas by insuring many, in particular some of the nation’s most financially challenged with the expansion of Medicaid. Why wasn’t this by itself enough to fix the problem?
