Discussion: Major sources of health care spending.
Discussion: Major sources of health care spending.
Imagine you have been asked to deliver a two-part informative workshop at a local health care expo by your Director of Community Outreach. Before he approves your workshop, you have to submit a proposal for each workshop that thoroughly discusses the content you would like to present. The first half of the workshop will inform the expo attendees of the demand of health care services as well as the cost of the services, expenditure to the health care industry, and payment sources used by the health care industry. It is important that consumers are aware of these concepts as they consider available health care services; therefore, you will want emphasize how the information you are sharing makes them better consumers.
Proposal Part l
Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you present the content you would like to discuss in the workshop to help increase overall consumer awareness regarding health care services.
Include the following in your paper:
Analyze the demand for health care services.
How does the demand for health care services differ from other consumer purchases?
What are the relationships between:
Changes in the cost of treatment or medicines and the demand for health care services?
Consumer/patient need and the demand for health care services?
How do changes in the behaviors of the consumers increase and/or decrease the demand for health care services?
Why is it important for consumers to understand the demand for health services?
Analyze the cost structure for the delivery of health care services.
How do different markets (large city vs. rural area) affect the cost of health care services?
What impact do specialized services (e.g., cancer or orthopedic centers) have on health care costs?
How do specialized service centers differ from traditional hospitals?
How are the objectives different for a for-profit vs. a non-profit health care organization?
Why is it important for consumers to understand the cost structure for the delivery of health care services?
Analyze the major sources of health care spending.
How has the trend of health care costs regarding the overall economy changed over the past several decades?
What impact does technology have on health care costs?
Why is it important for consumers to know the major sources of health care spending?
Analyze the various payment sources and mechanisms in the health care industry.
What sources are used to pay the costs of health care services other than self-pay and private health insurance?
What impact does the government have on payment sources for health care services?
Why is it important for consumers to know the payment sources for health care services?
Cite four textbook, peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references to support the assignment.
Format your assignment according to APA guidelines. Please address every detail needed.
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.