Dear Mayor Pugh,
I am an RNs trainee at the St Johns Hospital since the beginning of this year. I am writing to air a complain that I have heard from my rotations in the hospital as well as during my field and site visits to the community of Baltimore in the state of Maryland. I have researched on the same and the results came out positive about insufficient health insurance among the citizens of Baltimore.
The data from the research showed that over 12 percent of the male and female adult citizen were not covered by health insurance (Brown, 2016). This number was higher in Latinos and African-Americans in the city. The lack of health cover raises complications during treatment when the hospital bills are high yet the patient is not included in the health plan. This is slowly becoming a riskier situation as the season pass (Sangaramoorthy,2017).
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The health issue is important to the public health nurses since it directly affects the day to day working of the nurses. For instance, in the case of a few patients being covered under the health insurance will affect the output of the nurses and also complicate the whole process of getting health services.
This whole issue of health insurance could be resolved by advocating that each family member in Baltimore be included in the health insurance coverage. In the worst-case scenario, at least the head of the family could be covered and include all his/her family member in the insurance cover. The organizations and companies especially non-governmental should always pay for their employees the health insurance policy and should not be compromised. This could be the beginning of a new era in the health sector in Baltimore. This could be done in a legal framework and process with the help of health officers in your office.
Sincerely,
Name
References
Brown, Virginia et al. (2016). “Smart Choice Health Insurance. A New, Interdisciplinary Program to
Enhance Health Insurance Literacy”. A Journal of Health Promotion Practice.Issue 17 .
Sangaramoorthy, Thurka. (2017). “Immigrant Health in Rural Maryland: A Qualitative Study of
Major Barriers to Health Care Access”. A Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. Issue
19.
