Today, the healthcare system continues to function in a highly complicated environment. As suggested by the current policies, an additional emphasis on the quality of services is expected in order to meet the growing needs of the population. Nevertheless, healthcare faces systemic impediments, which prevent it from working at full capacity and fulfilling its potential. The issue of underinvestment has become especially acute in the United States, as this trend poses serious concerns within the medical community. Maani and Galea (2020) state that the brief surge in public health funding in the fallout of the 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S. has been followed by a steady financial decline. As a result, the trend became reflected in the level of income received by the medical staff. The general job dissatisfaction has had a negative impact on the personnel’s ability to deliver high-quality services, which, in turn, caused a wave of public disapproval. Overall, the situation remains in a circle of underfunding, in which the increasing workload requirement is not met due to medical teams’ unwillingness to work under current circumstances. As such, the healthcare system has recently seen the emergence of competing needs, which contradict one another. As mentioned earlier, the population’s demand for high-quality care remains on the increase. Patients address medical facilities for expert assistance, but the lack of motivation prevents workers from attaining the desired level of quality. In addition, the number of patients has also been growing steadily, and the situation took a particularly negative turn amid the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020-2021. According to Maani and Galea (2020), the healthcare system of the United States has been faced with challenges of an unprecedented magnitude. Thousand of new patients have been admitted daily, which raised the pressure on medical workers to critical levels. As a result, the need for higher capacity and better performance of the healthcare system was further highlighted by the pandemic. In other words, medical facilities are required to deliver their services better and more efficiently. On the other hand, the aforementioned need enters a conflict with another tendency, which consists of optimizing the system’s expenses. As described in the previous sections, the lack of satisfaction and motivation is conditioned by the inadequate level of pay nurses and other workers receive for their stressful jobs. It is natural for any organization or system, in general, to aim at reducing expenses and optimizing profits. The circle of underinvestment entails the poorer quality of services, leading to higher readmission rates, thus impacting the system’s financial performance. The analysis by Poojary et al. (2017) returned an early readmission rate of over 10%, which signifies flaws in the primary care procedures. In order to address this issue, the healthcare system faces the need for higher wages, which would motivate the personnel to work more efficiently. Evidently, the inadequate level of reward for services demotivates a sufficient number of practitioners, resulting in poorer services and worse financial performance of facilities. Effective state and nationwide policies may hold the key to resolving the healthcare stressor described above. The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) is effectively implemented across various settings within the system. Its purpos