Although preventative services such as routine well-care visits and immunizations have often shown...

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Although preventative services such as routine well-care visits and immunizations have often shown to be beneficial in terms of preventing future, more expensive, health care encounters, not all insurance plans offer reimbursement for such things. In addition, health care policies have only recently begun to recognize the "worth" of funding prevention-related services.

Week 1 Question:

Why do you believe that funding preventive health care services has taken so long to become a major component of health plans?

Week 2 Question:

What do you think will need to happen to change the prevailing mindset of funding health care services reactively versus proactively from a third-party payer's and a provider’s? Why?

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Funding healthcare services
Week 1 Question 
 Earlier it was thought that Health Insurance is only for medical emergencies or old age treatments. Many people stayed uninterested about investing in the health insurance companies and thought of it as a waste of money. As the time passed, many medical emergencies like accidents or autoimmune disorders came up in early life that consumed a huge amount of money. The insurance companies used to enjoy the premium for many years without any demand from the people. When the customers changed and demanded the reimbursement of any type of medical emergency,

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