¶ … Iron Triangle" Of Care, Cost, And Quality
Prior to explicating the particular direction that the health care system in the United States needs to take to consistently offer high levels of health care access at reasonable costs with substantial quality, it is necessary to understand the so-called iron triangle conundrum. The typical view of health care in the U.S. is that these three important factors (cost, quality and access) inevitably produce a detrimental effect upon one another. This viewpoint propounds the notion that increasing access to health care will inevitably drive up the costs associated with it, and quite possibly produce a noxious effect on the quality of such care. Conversely, there is a popularly held belief that reducing costs for health care will lead to a definite reduction in the quality of care delivered. Essentially, the iron curtain view of these three aspects of health care maintains that any improvement in one of these factors will inevitably adversely affect the others. However, an examination of a number of different sources supports the idea that by shifting the focus of how health care is practiced in this country, and by incorporating certain elements of foreign health care systems, the iron triangle can be broken and access, cost and quality can all improve.
Perhaps the single most important determinant in an improvement in cost, quality and access to healthcare is changing the definition of what good health care is. Good health care is that in which wellness is supported and encouraged. Quite often, however, within America good health care is considered from an industrial perspective in which many believe that access to a number of different aspects of managing diseases is the apex of health care. Such a notion is simply not true and functions as a means for corporations and industries...
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