Discussion: Payment systems reform

There is another meeting of the Ethics Committee with the CEO in attendance. During this meeting, concerns about the overall payment system are expressed by the CEO. Each member is asked to return to the next meeting more information to share with the committee.

The following articles offer additional information on this topic:

Ethical Practice Under Accountable Care Code of Medical Ethics: Financing and Delivery of Health Care

A Healthy Bottom Line: Profits or People?

Your informational paper for the committee should be 2–3 pages and should include the following:

Describe the ethical concerns related to payment systems reform. Discuss how payment systems impact the physician–patient relationship. Do you believe that most health care institutions are financially responsible organizations? In other words, do they spend their money wisely? Explain your answer.

References

American Medical Association (AMA). (2020). Code of medical ethics: Financing and delivery of health care. Retrieved from https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/ethics/code-medical-ethics-financing-and-delivery-health-care

Andre, C., & Velasquez, M. (2020). A health bottom line: Profits or people? Retrieved from https://www.scu.edu/ethics/focus-areas/bioethics/resources/a-healthy-bottom-line-profits-or-people/

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.