Rescue American Healthcare Fight

Rescue American Healthcare Fight

The movie “The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare,” identified seven issues affecting our current healthcare system:

https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-sick-around-the-world/ (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/sickaroundamerica/ (Links to an external site.)

  1. Paying more, getting less
  2. Treating the whole person
  3. Preventing Disease
  4. Overmedication
  5. Overtreatment
  6. An entrenched system
  7. Reimbursement

Please create a thoughtful and supported post addressing the points below. Let us all do our best to create thoughtful discussions and an open forum for all opinions.

  • Pick 4 of the issues listed above and answer the following questions:
  • How are these issues affecting our current system (spending/debt, Medicare, ACA, population health)?
  • Who is responsible for these issues and correcting them?
  • How can these issues be improved whether at a local/state (community health department), national (USDHHS), or global level (WHO)?
  • Which of these issues fall under the Strategic Goals of the USDHHS and Healthy People 2020?
  • What can we do as nurses?
  • Your post should be at least 400 words.
  • Use chapters 3 and 5 in your text and at least one scholarly article (not Wikipedia or a website).

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

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