Evolution of the problem

Running head : Healthcare incentives

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Health care incentives

According to McDonald et al (2007 ) Incentives can be defined as means which can be used to encourage a person to display behaviors or work in a manner that is required to produce good results . They can be either those that have monetary value to them like money and retirement benefits or those that do not have monetary value like flexible working time and safety

Development of the incentives in health care

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article retrieved online in the times of between 1750 and the late 1800s the health care system in the USA was providing simple medical services to the patients that included curing them at their homes using first aid skills . Sick people were taken care of at home and if the cases were critical it was when the doctors could be consulted The health workers used to provide those services for free as they believed in doing work out of their own self motivation . Most of the health workers like nurses and doctors were not trained well in that profession

In the early twenty century between the 1910 onwards the system that was being used was one whereby medical services could be provided to specific groups of people and they could make a monthly payment for the services this system was called a managed care system . At this time the little emphasis was give to other incentives other than the payments that the patients...