Analyze the challenges of economic and noneconomic barriers to improving quality, reducing costs, and increasing access to healthcare.

Analyze the challenges of economic and noneconomic barriers to improving quality, reducing costs, and increasing access to healthcare.

Scenario

Reforming healthcare delivery to improve the quality and value of care is essential to address escalating costs, poor quality, and increasing numbers of Americans without health insurance coverage. Reforms should improve access to the right care at the right time in the right setting.

You have been hired as an expert consultant for the American Medical Association (AMA) to deliver a presentation to a physicians group regarding various barriers to improving, reducing costs, and increasing access to healthcare. The AMA’s meeting is entitled “Healthcare Reform: Understanding the Obstacles that Hinder Us.”

Instructions

Research the following:

• Three economic barriers to improving quality in healthcare
• Three noneconomic barriers to improving quality in healthcare
• Three economic barriers to reducing costs in healthcare
• Three noneconomic barriers to reducing costs in healthcare
• Three economic barriers to increasing access to healthcare
• Three noneconomic barriers to increasing access to healthcare