Health Care is one of the important aspects of everyone’s life. Everyone wants the best in health care, yet we all keep creating impediments as to how to receive it or how much it costs. In United States of America, health care has gone through a period of instability caused by disagreements from various levels of the government and from health delivery institutions regarding the service mechanism to patients. Our presentation will shed light and discuss some of the following issues:

 

• Overall ethical conundrums in health care focusing on the access to care and right to know the cost.
• Is access to care a right or just another way of rationing care?
• What is the cost of access to care? Who pays for it?
• Is rationing of care disguised as access to care? Who needs it? What do they need? Who monitors access?
• What is the cost of health care as well as access to care?
• Why can’t a patient know the cost? Is this a way to hide the revenue and profits?
• If Electronic Health Record is here to stay, why do patients need to wait for information?
• Will the information empower patients or make payers accountable?
• What are the best practices for providing access to care and inform patients about its costs?

 

The above list of issues is not exhaustive. It is attempt to open a discussion which can generate further opportunities for joint research to contribute to education and the health care sector.