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Dawn, thank you so much for allowing me to read and respond to your very well written discussion thread. You did a fabulous job explaining each topic appropriately and I love how
you broke each topic down by category. I would love to dive further into conversation about
each topic. In your first paragraph, you talk about the difference between a cost and profit center. Similarly, to your description, Kaplan (2006) explains that managers of profit centers make decision about which products and services to produce, how to produce them, their quality level, price, sales, and distribution systems. A cost center is unit in which someone other than a manager determines outputs that will be produced as well as inputs required to produce each unit of output, basically only focusing on the cost (Kaplan, 2006). You provided several great examples of healthcare departments that were cost centers and Kaplan (2006) also suggests that Radiology is an example of a department that use to be considered a profit center and is now a cost center. I enjoyed your third topic of serving the vulnerable and how you incorporated the advantages of utilizing a decentralized governance. Porter (2009) suggests that achieving universal insurance coverage is crucial to not only enable a high-value healthcare delivery system but also out of fairness to those who are uninsured or underserved. Porter (2009) suggests that to provide fair coverage, reform is necessary, and it must focus first on people and the importance of their health. Insurers should only prosper if they improve their subscriber’s health, employers must stay in bested in the insurance system, individual insurance must be more affordable, income- based subsidies are needed to help lower-
income people buy insurance, and everyone must be required to purchase health insurance so that younger and healthier people cannot opt out (Porter, 2009). Your Biblical perspective was in depth and well written. Doing the right thing in healthcare is always the most important, especially for the patient. Proverbs 19:17 states “whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord and he will reward them for what they have done” (NIV, 2021, p. 198). Uninsured and underserved individuals still require healthcare and unfortunately, the longer they wait to be treated, the harder it is on our healthcare system to manage these patients and eating the cost. We must treat them, but that is what’s best for
the patients, however there must be better ways to help insure these folks in order for them
to receive treatment sooner.
References:
Kaplan, R. (2006). The demise of cost and profit centers
. Division of Research, Harvard Business
School. Porter, M. E. (2009). A strategy for health care reform — toward a value-based system. New England Journal of Medicine
, 361
(2), 109–112. https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmp0904131
Life application study bible: NIV
. (2021). Zondervan.
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