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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Seven challenges impacting our existing healthcare system were outlined in the film “The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare”:
https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-sick-around-the-world/ (This is a link to another website.) (This is a link to another website.)
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/sickaroundamerica/ (This is a link to another website.)
1. Spending more to obtain less
2. Taking care of the whole person
3. Disease Prevention
4. Excessive medication
5. Excessive therapy
6. It’s a system that’s been in place for a long time.
7. Reimbursement
Please write a thoughtful and well-supported post that addresses the following points. 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
