“Group Medical Practices in the U.S.”  Please respond to the following:

• According to the textbook, a comparison of several countries with different levels of income shows that quality of healthcare and life expectancy among these nations are similar. However, the cost of care in the U.S. is the highest among the nations in the comparison. Analyze the main specific factors that affect the cost of healthcare services in the U.S. and recommend one (1) way that physician practices can help reduce the overall cost of healthcare services in the U.S. Provide a rationale for your response.
• Assess the key different types of physician practices and evaluate three (3) administrative challenges that practice administrators face in providing quality services to the communities they serve. Support your analysis with specific examples.Hello class and welcome to week 1 discussion and its subparts.  Based on  this week’s readings, analyze what you think are the relationships between income equality and quality of health care given?

Do you believe that richer countries have a better health care system than poorer nations?  Why and what can be done differently?  How does that work in today’s non healthcare oriented climate?

Please give examples.