HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Health System, Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act, Copayment

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health, Aging and Society
• Course: HLTHAGE 1AA3
• Professor: Mat Savelli

Document Summary

Healthcare systems refer to the rules that govern formal healthcare relationships. Laws structure way that healthcare relationships should function, boundaries, rights of patients, scope of practitioners, payment/insurance. But these systems more than list of rules - actually shape how and where healthcare is delivered as well as health status itself. Cost may in uence whether a person uses formal (of cial medical structures, biomedicine) or informal (naturopaths, osteopaths, family) care. Who has access to certain services or treatments (and which treatments become covered) Whether care is preventative (prevent health problems from developing) or corrective ( x existing problems) Undergo rigorous training, obtain license to practice, legally permitted. Restricts who can provide healthcare by insisting they acquire credentials. Who can practice what (scope) regulated by state and professional bodies (nurses, specialists, chiropractic, etc. ) Political process, battle (ex. who"s allowed to prescribe medication?)