...Health Law, Regulation, and Policy Paper The Affordable Care Act is a law that has had a significant impact on the health care industry. The Affordable Care Act, also known as the ACA, is a health care law implemented in 2010 that gives consumers more control over their health care. The law gives Americans the ability to make knowledgeable decisions about their health. The law is influenced by lack of comprehensive insurance coverage, high insurance costs, and limited choice of health care. The law makes health care more reasonably priced, accessible, and of higher quality for families, the elderly, businesses and tax payers. Also, the law allows previously uninsured Americans to obtain sufficient coverage. The law is important because it improves health care. It improves health care by increasing insurance coverage. Medical coverage is available to adults up until the age of 26 and denial for pre-existing medical conditions is prohibited. The law is also important because it improves health care costs. The law ends lifetime limits on coverage and reviews premium increases. More care options are also available with the law. The law removes insurance company barriers to emergency services, allows patients to choose their health care provider, and covers preventative care without an out-of-pocket cost to the patient. Throughout this paper, there will be discussion on several different topics regarding the impact of the Affordable Care Act on health care organizational policies...
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...Healthcare reform and policy establishment has been driven by politics since modern medicine began to make a rise in our western culture. In 1935, President Franklin Roosevelt was the first to attempt to integrate a national health care program within social security. President Harry Truman proposed a multi payer insurance fund while in office but also was unsuccessful. Multiple presidents have attempted to succeed at providing healthcare reform and finally succeeded in 2010 with the Affordable Care Act. Each political party has their own agenda that they use to guide the policies they support. Unfortunately, many health care providers are not aware of the policy challenges that our profession faces daily and the impact our government has on healthcare policies. Policy making is driven by committees within our federal and state government where bills that have been presented are reviewed. Each party typically will push for new policies that benefit their political party often voting for bills in the legislature that gain the most popular vote. The passing of policies through our legislature impacts healthcare in various ways. For example take the Bill presented by Illinois congresswomen on safe patient-staff ratio. If this bill is passed and becomes policy, hospital systems will be forced to revamp patient census requirements, when there is only one study available showing improved quality of care. . It is crucial that evidence based practice be incorporated with policy making as well...
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...Health Care Law, Regulations and Policy HCS/545 November 23, 2015 Health Care Law, Regulations and Policy Health Care law and legislation came about to define the scope of acceptable practice of clinicians, while protecting the public’s individual rights. Miller and Hutton states “Law can be defined as a system of principles and processes by which people who live in a society attempt to control human conduct to minimize the use of force in resolving conflicting interests.” When creating laws, conflicting interest often takes into consideration the basis ethical principles that includes autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice to name a few. Laws, particularly health care laws are often in the form of a statutes, such as the nurse practice act, that serves as a guidance for nurses to know what defines and limits our practice. As such, the law also regulates how statures must be enforced. Administrative agencies, such as the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services under the auspices of the Health and Human Services, have created rules and regulations to enforce statutory laws. When we look at laws in nursing and other industries, it is an extension to address ethical issues that universally affects our society. Health care agencies are mandated to adhere to the rules that are created by regulatory agencies that can come in the form of laws, regulations, or codes, and are enforced through controls that make sure that these rules are adhered...
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...Administrative ethical issues occur in health care today such as patient privacy, confidentiality or HIPAA. It is best to resolve this type of issue because patient privacy in health care is very important. These policies are designed to protect the rights of patients by making sure personal information of the patient is not disclosed in any way. Protecting a patient’s privacy by way of disclosing personal information and is not to be released without personal formal consent. Also, of employees discussing patient information on the job to people with no knowledge of the patient or even off the job. Many health care organizations enforce privacy policies such as HIPAA and confidentiality although all employees do not abide by such policies. It is being found that more frequently that people from these health care organizations are breaking these policies and their must be changes to provide patients with protection. Administrative ethical issues of the HIPAA Policy within health care organizations must make necessary changes to appropriately protect the rights of patients. The issue at hand is that of health care organizations properly protecting the rights of their patients. The article that will be discussed in this paper is that of OCR issues proposed Modifications to HIPAA Privacy and Security settings (Frank Irving, 2004). The population that is affected by it most has been impacted by such ethical issues brought upon by employees of health care organizations. The population...
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...Crossroads: The Development of Health Insurance in Canada and the United States, 1940-1965 Author(s): Antonia Maioni Source: Comparative Politics, Vol. 29, No. 4 (Jul., 1997), pp. 411-431 Published by: Ph.D. Program in Political Science of the City University of New York Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/422012 . Accessed: 12/10/2013 14:05 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. . Ph.D. Program in Political Science of the City University of New York is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Comparative Politics. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 130.63.180.147 on Sat, 12 Oct 2013 14:05:01 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions Parting at the Crossroads The Development of Health Insurance in Canada and the United States, 1940-1965 AntoniaMaioni Frequentlyraised in recent discussions abouthealth care reformin the United States has been the model of the Canadianhealth insurancesystem.' While debates about health insurance often turn into polemical...
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...importance in terms of maintaining the security of actor” (Hough 2008: 2). Depending on the emergency of security of an actor will depend how a government or country will act on the security measure. For example, concerns relating to health and rights of the people will be at top on the global political agenda compare to other events such as natural disasters or mass killings are rarely seen as security concerns. It might be of importance to the people that these events are happening to, but not to the people not being affected. There are four main paradigms of International Relations that affect issues in security. Those paradigms are Realism, Pluralism, Marxism, and Social Constructivism. Realism is the idea that states should be self-centered, competitive, and should look after themselves and not trust any other states. The state should do anything within its reach to expand its power in wherever possible being in military or economic sectors in order to secure themselves and be at the top. Realists tend to favor governments that separate the high and low politics and best serve the national interest. Low politics such as health issues, welfare, and other issues of that sort should be dealt at a domestic level and is separate from high politics, such as war. The idea globalization in the 60’s and 70’s took International Relations to a different perspective because not only did they have to deal with military power issues but now they had...
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...Introduction In most cases, being a good corporate citizen goes hand in hand with high levels of political competence. This statement rings true when it comes to the formulation of health policies. Health executives must always consider a multitude of factors before jotting down any sort of health policies. This is because the implications resulting from implementing a health policy are quite numerous since that policy affects a lot of individuals. Seasoned executives who have mastered the skills of political competence are able to analyze factors that might crop up as a result of pushing for the implementation of a particular health policy, thus enabling them to identify potential pit falls that might pose challenges in the future. There have always been a lot of misconceptions on the topic of political competency, with most people associating this concept with actual politics. Although the issue of political competency applies largely to the field of politics, it can still be incorporated in other different dimensions. Political skill or competence is the “ability to read, understand, and exert influence and control in social situations in a way that is not seen as overt or controlling” (Ahearn, Ferris, Horchwarter, Douglas and Ammeter 2004 p.309). On the other hand, a good corporate citizen can be defined by incorporating Matten and Crane (2005) limited view of corporate citizenship which basically denotes corporate philanthropy in the local community. Although other views...
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...“This addresses the policy work that is done is a variety of places to influence the size, educational preparation, and competence of the nursing workforce” (Chaffee, Mason, Leavitt, 2014). The community sphere addresses issues affecting community health. “Helping to shape the health and welfare of our communities and the nation fulfills part of nursing’s contract with America’s citizens”. (Ennen, 2011). The government sphere addresses laws, rules and regulations governing nursing practice. Lastly, the organization sphere addresses issues which shape nursing practice. “Nursing professional associations act as advocated for nursing’s unique interests and causes” (Ennen, 2001). These spheres all involve nursing and how nurses can get involved in health policies and make changes to improve healthcare and patient safety....
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...occurrence and public health response towards the HIV/AIDS disease. It deals with a broad range of issues in public health through the emergence of information and the reaction to the new disease. It touches on issues concerning the heterosexual community, gay community and the medical community. It did show not only research in AIDS but also the way the federal government responded to it. The movie gives general overview of how medical research was carried out during those days. The main themes in this movie are the plight of the medical community dealing with research, government response to research and social alienation in health care. The gay community experienced a lot of suffering due to social isolation. The center for disease control singled out the gay community as the only ones who were at high risks of...
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...U.S. Health Care Quality Analysis: Legislative History Following up to the 1999 release of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, To Err Is Human, in 2002 a Kaiser Family Foundation survey found that only about 5% of physicians considered medical errors as a primary healthcare concern.[1] Congress, however, did not share the physicians’ nonchalant attitude and gave the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) an estimated $50 million towards minimizing medical errors.[2] Senator James Jeffords (R-VT) of the 107th Congress introduced the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act (S.2590) to the Senate on June 4, 2002[3] attempting to improve the safety of patients and “…reduce the incidence of events that adversely effect patient safety.”[4] In 2003, President Bush signed into law the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act (P.L 108-173).[5] A section of this law authorized AHRQ to research effectiveness in treatments in order to set a guideline to improve the quality of care.[6] John Eisenberg helped build this program that generates summaries that can help provide health care providers with evidence-based practices that help improve quality of care delivered.[7] Realizing the importance of this research to quality of care, the president signed the Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (H.R. 1) into law on February 17, 2009, providing additional funding to continue effective research.[8] This helps to demonstrate the...
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...Medicare Policy Process The health care, policy-making process is composed of three major stages; the formulation stage, legislative stage, and the implementation stage. The policy process refers to the specific decisions and events that are required for a policy to be proposed, considered, and finally either implemented and/or set aside. It is an interactive process with multiple points of access providing opportunities to influence the multiple decision makers involved at each stage (Abood, 2007). Each stage presents a unique set of events for a policy to be proposed, considered, and either implemented or rejected. In the formulation stage there is an input of ideas, information, and research from government officials, citizens, and special interest groups. The issue is framed and the purpose and outcome is defined. Finally strategies are chosen and the necessary resources are identified. In the legislative stage the policy must be discussed by congress, agreed on and signed into law. In the implementation stage the policy is put into effect, human resources and funding are allocated. After a new policy is implemented, advocates, opponents, or other “interested parties” begin to consider the consequences of the decision and its implementation (Cockrel, 2007). Abood (2007), “The overall health care system, including the public and private sectors, and the political forces that affect that system are shaped by the health care, policy-making process” (The Policy Process...
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...Medicare program as a way to provide much needed health care insurance for the large population of elderly Americans. In “Introduction to US Health Policy”, Donald Barr highlights that when Medicare was passed in 1965, only about 56 percent of elderly citizens in the United States had any form of hospital insurance. Since aging is an inescapable fate of every person, there was an American consensus that no one should face financial ruin due to the rising costs of receiving health care during their elderly years which served as a catalyst for this program’s formation. The passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 has further...
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...What Should a Christians Role in Politics Be? Student’s Name: Institutional affiliation: Christians have a very important and vital contribution to make towards present day political debate. 1Lets start by defining what a church is. A church means both the institutional entity and the individual believer (Christian) 2. In my opinion both the corporate body and individual have a role to play in the realm of politics. The combination of politics and Christianity has more that often resulted in explosive, fiery and intractable conflict not only in the contemporary world alone. During and after the struggles of European Christians in the 18th and 19th centuries, sensible Christian’s leaders and politicians alike came to conclude that major mutual tolerance was needed urgently for civilization. All powers of politics have been delegated by God. It is unconscionable and unreasonable for Christians to absent or excuse themselves from the public domain on such lame grounds that Christians and churches in general should not and never get involved in the matters of politics, when the holy bible they profess to trust and believe in tells them that power exclusively comes from the very and only God they worship. Politics is terribly vital. For ill or good, its ultimate effects on humanity, their well-being and conduct cannot be exaggerated. Politics is vital in determining whether people will live in peace or be at war. It also affects the...
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...President Kennedy had just been assassinated; a country was mourning its president, a president who had brought hope to end segregation, a president who was handsome and charismatic. A completely different personality took the office and was prepared to win the American citizens’ trust and confidence. Lyndon B. Johnson was this man. The media perceived him as a vulgar Texan and rough around the edges, he was determined to make dramatic changes in the country’s reform laws. President Lyndon Johnson was a unique president who had had the unique experience of being a minority and coming from an impoverished background. According to Whitehouse, “Johnson was born on August 27, 1908, in central Texas, not far from Johnson City, which his family had helped settle. He felt the pinch of rural poverty as he grew up, working his way through Southwest Texas State Teachers College (now known as Texas State University-San Marcos); he learned compassion for the poverty of others when he taught students of Mexican descent.” Because President Johnson understood the needs of impoverished people in the United States, he wasted no time before implementing laws that provided financial and educational support for communities that needed it the most. Some of the most accessed and important programs, which set the United States apart from other countries, were established as reforms in Lyndon Johnson’s presidential term. President Lyndon Johnson was an enforcer of the humanities, he fought for...
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...U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) drug review bears a structural similarity to many decisions made by other regulatory agencies: high uncertainty, low reversibility, avoidance of observable error, and high political stakes that induce lobbying by interested parties. This project explores the policy lessons to be learned from viewing FDA drug review as a politically shaped exercise in information processing. I argue that the incentives facing regulators induce limits on the degree to which drug review can be accelerated, that the same incentives could render privatization initiatives problematic, and that political pressures could play a useful role in identifying priority drugs. Patients, more than pharmaceutical firms, shape the political costs to the FDA of delaying drug approval. Consider two hypothetical consumers, one a pharmaceutical consumer (“patient”) who wishes to try a new drug for some ailment, the other a vitamin consumer who wishes to take zinc supplements to ward off a cold or flu. There are few institutional restrictions upon the consumption decisions of the vitamin consumer, at least in the United States. She is free to purchase vitamin products over the counter, and the vitamin manufacturer is free to sell them without prior authorization or licensing. Not so with pharmaceuticals. The marketplace for pharmaceuticals is one of the most highly regulated industries in the U.S. economy.1 To use any new pharmaceutical product, the patient must secure the...
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