KINDLY ANSWER THE TWO PARAGRARAPH AND IF POSSIBLE FROM YOUR OWN OPINION FOR 125 WORDS FOR EACH PARAGRAPH.
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agree that the apathy of self-care was taken advantage of from health insurance companies years ago by reaping the benefits from people who thinks they are in perfect healthy and do not need to go get routine checkups. "The Affordable Care Act created the Prevention and Public Health Fund to supply expanded and sustained national investments in prevention and public health, to better health results, and to build up quality in health care" (IOS, 2020). These two objectives would have the double impact of making a more advantageous populace with greater quality life years while helping contain rising health insurance costs and healthcare spending.
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Chronic illness is consistently growing which have long lasting impacts on social, physical, psychological and even economical levels. Proactively creating a system that has models in place can have great impact on the overall well-being of patients. Insurance companies are now starting to see the long term benefits of utilizing preventive care. To be successful, there has to be allocated resources in place. Rather it is from private insurance, federal funded or a combination of both. There has to be proven evidence that preventive care is beneficial and provider barriers would need to be lifted. Resources and knowledge/training can aid in removing that barrier. Integrating a patient- centered approach that includes the patient, providers, policy makers, employers and all other parties involved can create a consistent message and strategy. During the delivery stage it is essential to have a smooth transition and open up the lines of the communications. Ongoing review of the programs to meet the needs of the various demographics of patients.
With the advancements of technology, healthcare can now use apps, devices and tracking to provide data and clinical outcomes. These outcomes can create pay for performance contracts. Payments may be tie to the desired achieved outcomes. Providers that receive fixed payments per patient, this can aid in reducing their costs and increase their profits if they have healthier patients. With the Affordable Care Act issuing grants to providers for financial awards to reduce the risk of chronic disease. In turn, private insurers and employers are increasingly utilizing healthy awards. They realize in the long run costs of care will be lowered.