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Access to Health Care
Access to health care in the United States encompasses a system of service providers that
make a complete system. In this light, the access to health care has been a subject of discussion
since the early 1870s. Importantly, the access to health care has gr own over time from home health
care provision to the hospitals in large cities (Gulliford & Morgan , 2013) . Notably, the history of
the health care in the United States has been motivated by the series of endless scientific
innovations over the years. In this way, the innovations have seen the system grow from the
constraints of health care access to the decli ne of mortality rates due to increased access to health
care. Clearly, in the early 1990s, the chronic diseases rose to be the leading causes of deaths
(Gulliford & Morgan , 2013) . In this light, the developed systems that constituted of the new
procedures such as the x -rays and chemotherapy improved the health care access to the society.
Some of the factors that improved the health care access increments include the improved
expenditures on health care programs. The governments increase the expenditures on health care
that caused a rise in the GDP to approximately 4% (Gulliford & Morgan , 2013) . Importantly, the
health care access and maintenance organization act formed and enacted in 1973 has laid strategies
such as; improve and increased health system agen cies, clarification of the role of competition
among the health organization and inclusion of innovative technology in health care (Gulliford &
Morgan , 2013) . Importantly, the access to health care has been improved due to the presence of
different agencie s such as; independent providers, nurses, allied healthcare professionals as well
as the Nonallopathic providers. Access to health care is a social amenity that contributes to the
wellbeing of the community.