For patients who are most in need of extended treatment such as cancer and the many debilitating diseases that need constant management according to the UK’s NHS. This shows that almost 62% of all patients who are over ER care and are shifting to extended care cannot afford or the hospitals may not be properly equipped to handle such cases are not getting any follow up care as prescribed or required by their disease, resulting in relapse for most cases of treatable diseases instead of getting well. The health care industry has suffered greatly due to the collapse of the financial market that has indeed degraded as hospitals trim down on expenses.
Now in the US, where major milestones are being made in the initial deliberations of the reforms the health care industry needs, the problem is now that there may not be enough doctors to provide the necessary care as required by the reforms due to brain drain which has doctors shifting fields or even relocating to other countries where pay is better, a case of greener pastures, to the expense of the people who continue to suffer due to lack of care.