Financing and funding for health care services is well acknowledged and known as a major way of improving the quality of services or products being offered to patients. It is also recognized as a key approach of improving the quality of life among the citizens, in general. In order to manage the funds of the governmental healthcare programs more efficiently particular educational programs directed to promotion of healthy lifestyles are to be implemented in schools. As a result of such educational programs significant amount of federal financial recourses will be saved; these funds may be applied for the governmental insuring program.
Speaking about the current situation in the US healthcare system, it should be stated that there is evidence from diverse information data banks showing increased financing and funding of health care services and its products by the government, public and private organizations, non-governmental organizations as well as by individual (Brownell 2004). Despite the fact that all of these policies have been formulated and adopted to deal with and combat all the range of human diseases and illness, certain unhealthy conditions of people such as obesity, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, diabetes, asthma among other diseases with high prevalence in the U.S community, have been a major drive for policy search, formulations and adoption. The abuse on the system by phamaceuticals, hospitals, and doctors can be also mentioned as one of the primary problems in the US healthcare (Mason 2012). Finally, the uninsured population including the most diversified categories of citizens suffers greatly from the current situation in healthcare on the reason of lacking an opportunity to attend a doctor on a stage of pathology when they can still be helped.
Reflecting on the above mentioned problems existing in the US healthcare system, it is evident how important the development of a new strategy in the area of governmental insuring and the implementation of new strategies of working with the population is important. Improvements are to be implemented both in urban and rural territories, but as rural territories are affected much worse than urban ones this proposal will concentrate on the rural communities. Citizens in rural areas are plagued with chronic diseases caused by their unhealthy lifestyles leading to obesity and causing severe medical conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, and all types of cancer. Their lack of medical knowledge is one of the major reasons for their unhealthy lives.
A new health care policy is to be created and implemented into law that mandates schools to serve only healthy foods. As a result the above mentioned chronic diseases would not be as rampant. If children as early as pre-school began learning about healthy lifestyles and were made to eat only healthy foods, chronic disease rates would decrease; therefore, money would be saved on a national level. Fighting obesity is a major key to saving the entire nation money. The saved money, in turn, are to be directed to the governmental insurance program in order to provide a basis for the population having no needed financial means to timely receive a qualified medical help.
As a final point, the results of this proposed education shifting policy are expected to have a high positive impact in the field of health care financing in relation to the mitigation of health conditions and status.
References
Brownell, D. (2004). Food Fight. The inside Story of the Food Industry, America’s Obesity Crisis, and What We Can Do about It. New York: McGraw Hill.
Mason, D. J., Leavitt, J. K. and Chafee, M.W. (Eds.). (2012). Policy and politics in nursing and health care (6thed.) St. Louis: Saunders / Elsevier.