Week 5 DQs

What are the most urgent health care policy issues that must be addressed as society deals with issues challenging health care delivery, such as baby boomers, technology and disease management? Access to health care is a pressing health care policy matter that must be tackled. There have been apprehensions by Americans on the denial of health care access; 37% have concerns on access denial on the account of pre-existing conditions and financial obstruction to insurance, 20% did not view their coverage as adequate with lack of preventive measures; and 16% indicated that health care for many Americans is accessible through hospital emergency rooms only (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 2011, p. 1). The major issues in health care are the expenses of health care...