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Health Insurance/Care Overhaul, Pt.8 – ‘Accessibility’, ‘Accountability’ and ‘sharpening the saw’.

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Now we encompass the more comprehensive ‘Accreditation’ attributes of the ideal health insurance/care system recommended by the ‘Commonwealth’.

4) The first one deals with ‘accessibility’. All too often, patients have needs after-hours (for some reason, medical problems seem to target Sunday nights). This has been a constant problem forever, it seems. The new, revamped ideal health insurance/care system is obligated to accommodate the ‘natural occurrence’. The ability to get needed medical care and/or information on off-hours needs to be provided. In addition to this, it is added that medical providers need to be “culturally competent and responsive to patients' needs,” in the words of the Science Daily News article.

5) Again, we are furthering the more comprehensive approach to topics mentioned earlier. This one deals with ‘clear accountability’ The reason it is necessary to delineate here is because of the unlikelihood of different entities and organizations naturally being ‘on the same page’. The last thing the patient needs, especially from the compromised position of ill health, is legal and medical rhetoric, jargon and mumble-jumble in sorting out what needs to be done and what doesn’t. “The Imaging Services department wants to run a dozen CAT scans for a broken finger. Is this really necessary?” Let’s not automatically blame it on the patient. Was the patient well-informed? Let’s have some ‘clear accountability’ here.

6) Lastly, the ideal and comprehensive insurance/care system needs to continually ‘sharpen the saw’. All these attributes mentioned above need to ever evolve and adapt. Medical technology will evolve, supply and demand will ever swing, etc. Effectiveness can never cling to a static set of rules. Some will become out-moded and others will require continual honing. Still, the vision will never change. That is to “improve quality, value, and patients' experiences,” again, from the good people at Science Daily News.

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