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Critical Issues in Health Care Access

Critical Issues in Health Care Access

Critical Issues in Health Care Access

There have always been major access and service availability problems with the mentally ill . The mentally ill were shifted from inpatient to outpatient without sufficient community planning which has led to a great disparity in care as well as prejudice against those that are seen as less than the average person (Aday , 2003 . Research finding that heart attack victims with mental illness receive less aggressive treatment fits the scenario that people have a severe prejudice against the mentally ill

p The scenario given definitely has ethical issues imbedded in it . First of all healthcare in the United States is not a right . It is provided to those that can afford it and emergently to those that need it . Many times , not only are mentally ill people unable to afford elaborate healthcare but they also do not understand it . They already have many issues that prevent them from understanding the world around them and they are , after all , not contributors to society . Why would we do the most elaborate expensive treatment available on them when most of them are on Medicaid anyway and are not going to follow through we the s given anyway

Ethically after all , this is a values clarification , right ? No moral code fits everything and is it morally prudent to continue to treat someone that does not follow s or who is not contributing to society in general ? Supporting that view is ethical realism . If all...

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