The health care system nowadays is entirely concentrated upon such factors as quality, access, and cost. Each element helps to provide patients and society with high-quality medical care. The paper is aimed at defining the role of each aspect of modern healthcare. The purpose is to decide which point is more critical for the system and develop the concept of improvement one of the factors.
Cost, access, and quality are interrelated in such a way that if one aspect is at its highest point, one of them or even two others may be scaled down. For instance, the number of people who can afford healthcare services decreases with the increase in cost. However, the higher prices are more likely to guarantee higher care quality. Thus, cost, access, and quality can hardly ever be kept at the same level.
The goal of medicine is to provide high-quality care to all the people at an affordable cost. Therefore, the resources should be pointed at increasing the access, for the right to get medical care determines the fundamental value of an individual. Preventive care is of help here as it is cheaper than disease-treatment and can potentially decrease costs. Such measures will make medicare accessible and can include information popularization with special programs for people predisposed to some diseases. For example, people with the risk of diabetes may be involved in programs to control their weight and physical exercises.
Consequently, keeping the decent access rate is possible if we take the measures that will keep costs at their lowest and provide the community with respectable quality rates. As a result, the healthcare industry will save money on treatment, and our society will have healthier and happier members who trust the healthcare industry. The quality of care, thus, has a good chance to increase automatically.