...Paper: Socialized Health Care While many countries today have some sort of public health program, their effectiveness is not conclusive and there is undoubtedly a great deal of controversy regarding all aspects of socialized modern health care. In North America but more so in the United States, there is a deep-rooted stigma associated with all things that relate to socialism, most likely due to history and the negative reputations of most countries with this sort of economic system. Capitalism does seem to fit the American way of life and even some aspects of human nature as we are generally competitive and compelled to have freedom of choice. However there is another aspect to human nature that drives us towards more collectivist ideals and it is found in our compassion, caring for others, unity and social solidarity. When exploring these issues the most important problems seem to occur at the extremities of the spectrum and in similar ways. Capitalism has allowed people to gain absurd amounts of wealth, often through corruption and deceit, and that wealth gives them unimaginable power while socialism tends to be corrupt and oppressive. This leads us to the obvious deduction that no system is perfect, whether it is a public or private health care system, a capitalist market or a democratic government, some might seem foolproof in theory but all have their flaws in practice, probably due to the volatility of human nature. We will argue that, in many ways, health care is a...
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...July 9, 2009 Socialized Medicine: Will it Change America? Something that is facing today’s society is whether or not socialized medicine would be beneficial for the United States. This is an area of concern to many people. The question is whether or not socialized medicine would benefit the society as a whole or one economic group versus another. I am against socialized medicine for several reasons. I feel that socialized medicine would disrupt the natural balance between the social classes, and in turn society may get less quality of care. With this type of medicine it would put a cap on the amount of money health care personnel would be able to make. I believe that this would discourage doctors who specialize in certain areas to possibly discontinue their practice or move to another country. If this were to occur then this would eliminate the high standards of care that we currently have in the U.S. Not only would this effect doctors but could also hurt the overall health care profession. By decreasing the income of health care associates this would cause an upset in the overall economy. I feel this would be detrimental to the U.S. since we are already in a recession. Socialized medicine would provide the entire population with complete medical care through government subsidization and regularization of medical and health care services. The health care industry is one of the largest employers in the U.S. President Obama is currently trying to get his stimulus bill...
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...highly unlikely not to meet anyone with a different culture, religion or ethnicity. In this paper we will discuss the aspects of health maintenance, protection and restoration after assessing three different people from three very different backgrounds. The first family interviewed and assessed was Tina Ouraie from Iran. Tina was 18 when she moved to America with her parents and still speaks Farsi, which is her mother tongue. Tina has continued to celebrate and practice her native festivities along with cooking Persian food. Tina states she has a deep love for her country and the very rich culture, which is over 3000 years old, “ I can not imagine being born in any other country”. Tina states that the health practices in Iran are not very much different than America; “we have big hospitals but also small clinics, it is easy to get an appointment and the doctors are very intelligent if not more so than America”. Second family was Adeel from India. India has been known to practice medicine for a very long time and mostly by herbs and spices until the western medicine took over. Adeel reports that he has been in America for 8 years and is now in medical school, which has helped him understand the western medicine in a different way he knew. “We have very modern hospitals, however we also have very poorly shaped ones as well, the contrast in health care system is very broad, depending on where in India you are”. Adeel states he has continued to practice his own belief in Hinduism...
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...AFFORDABLE CARE ACT “Obamacare” The Affordable Care Act, or otherwise known as “Obamacare,” was signed into law on March 23, 2010 by President Barack Obama. The thing that immediately comes to mind when I think of Obamacare is healthcare for every citizen in the United States. This sounds great to me, and without research with in-depth investigation, I would say it has been homerun for Obama with acquiring votes in the past, as well as giving every citizen healthcare. I am interested in the topic of Obamacare because of the simple fact that many people of this generation believe it is a great thing; my intuition tells me that same thing. I know that the main goals of Obamacare are to provide affordable health insurance to all Americans and to ultimately reduce health care costs. This means extending coverage to about 32 million Americans who lack insurance and protecting consumers from discriminatory and unfair practices established by insurance companies. This system must work great because, after all, Canada uses this exact same socialized health care system and I hear all of the time from news media such as MSNBC and CNN about how well the healthcare system in Canada works. In fact, I have heard Michael Moore, a very well-known member of the Democratic Party, say that citizens in Canada on average live 3 years longer than American citizens because of this great healthcare system. I am very impressed by that statistic! I have heard that because Canada has a single-payer...
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...The Future of Medicine Andrew Hovey GEN 499 Eric Fox 03/03/14 In theory, the Affordable Care Act is a great plan but the execution has been terrible because People do not understand what the ACA even actually allows them to do. The ability to keep insurance that was already owned was a fallacy, and the ability of people to actually get insurance via the ACA has been mediocre at best. It does however, represent our best shot at a country where everyone has access to medical care at an affordable rate and moves us toward what I believe to be an eventuality and something that is sorely needed, socialized medicine. The reason that I believe it is sorely needed is due to the fact that the fiasco with the website marketplace rollout involved with the ACA has shown us that even the government is not capable of keeping track of all of the different insurance providers and quite frankly the only thing they have done is confuse people as to what coverage they can receive. This would not be necessary if there were one non-private entity that handled insurance for the people. Many European countries use socialized medicine and admittedly, there are varying degrees of success but our system is broken. Competing healthcare companies, different degrees of care and skyrocketing costs have made healthcare un-palletable for many. Just shopping for healthcare on the Heathcare.gov website, one can see how confusing and frustrating the search...
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...Running head: THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT The Affordable Care Act, Is it Really Working? Saint Leo University THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT 2 Abstract On the 23rd of March 2010, President Barack Obama signed a monumental bill into law. That bill was the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare by those who opposed the law. The purpose of this law is to make health insurance affordable for those who have little or no health insurance coverage. In 2012 nearly 15% of the U.S. population had no health insurance during most of the calendar year (www.aier.org). So if the purpose of this law is to better ourselves by providing health insurance why are there so many people opposing it? You would think in the land of milk and honey you would want people to be healthier and long living. Or is the reason because the big health insurance companies feel they are having food taking out of their mouths and the mouths of their supporters. THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT 3 The Affordable Care Act was signed into law to reform the health care industry on the March 23rd 2010 by President Obama. The Affordable Care Act was a major topic during the 2008 Presidential primaries. The goal for the Affordable Care Act was to give more American access to affordable health insurance which in turn would...
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...9/25/15 English composition What do you think about universal health insurance? Universal health insurance will inevitably lead to bloated, unsustainable expenses. This will be followed by rigorous attempts at cost cutting tailored to progressive values. The first six inevitable consequences deal with cutting costs by suppressing or destroying human life. We will have increased birth control and slower population growth. Why an inevitability? Because in itself birth control is a strong progressive value and because preventing birth is the cheapest way to curtail the cost of pregnancy and child care under universal health care. economic consequences will rise uncontrollably the price of living will be much extremely high and the taxes will be even higher because the money to pay for the universal health insurance has to come from some when and that will be from our food, gas, and real estate. Much worse, an eventual resumption of involuntary sterilization is a real possibility. In the 20th century, the same people who pushed birth control successfully promoted involuntary sterilization. Abortion rates will rise. Again this is inevitable because abortion is already a progressive program and because next to birth control abortion is the most efficient way of eliminating the costs of pregnancy, delivery, and infant and child health care. Patients will be pushed out of hospitals into homecare, hospice care, and custodial nursing homes. This will be done under the guise...
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...President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law. There is no denying that Healthcare reform is a necessity at this point. Something absolutely has to change in America’s Healthcare. “It seems clear that if we continue down the path of healthcare delivery we current practice in this country, even if it is practiced a bit more efficiently, we will have failed. We will bankrupt this country, and the health of our citizens will continue to decline” (Riley, 2009). The question remains however, is the Affordable Care Act the answer to our crisis? The intentions of the ACA are honorable. Creators plan to reform healthcare by attacking several areas with issues. Main focus of goals include Universality – The right of every citizen to have healthcare. All citizens should be in a common risk pool. Financing – intent to reform based on spreading the cost of healthcare out equally. The common risk pool comes largely into play here because the young and healthy will subsidize some of the care needed by the sick and elderly. Cost – Reduction – Stabilizing the cost of healthcare and reducing the rate of growth Payment Reform – paying for outcomes and values achieved, rather than the volume of care given. Quality and process improvement - Components that will improve reporting and quality indicators of care. Prevention and Wellness - goal to reduce the cost of healthcare by promoting healthy living, therefore, less need for medical care. (Panning, 2014). In some ways the...
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...Evolution of Health Insurance System in US All Americans should have affordable, quality healthcare coverage. Most Americans agree that our healthcare system needs reform. That is primarily because 45.7 million Americans are without health insurance. The primary issues are access to healthcare, and affordability of healthcare. The burden of healthcare change should be fairly shared among all stakeholders. Government, the private sector, individuals, and the groups that represent them each must share in the responsibility for finding an affordable solution to healthcare reform [ (Humana, 2012) ]. The healthcare insurance industry has the most interesting past and surprisingly, the introduction of healthcare insurance dates back several years before the civil war and many of the concepts first used to establish the health insurance policies are still in use today. In 1847, Massachusetts Health Insurance of Boston issued the first individual health insurance policies that covered personal accidents (while travelling by rail or steamboat). Later, during the civil war, other companies entered the market and offered similar health plans. An important factor that helped insurance companies take root in American society was that the medical associations embraced health insurance because it helped doctors earn higher salaries. Before health insurance became popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s, doctors earned a little more than the hourly labor [ (Hummer, 2010) ]. The American...
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...daughter, must be done in a simple and informative manner, keeping in mind that insurance coverage is a complex process that often varies. However, below are some pointers to be addressed during the Mrs. Zwick’s discussion. Medicare Part A, A.K.A. hospital insurance, insures hospital services days (inpatient care, general nursing care, meals, medications, semi-private/private room if medically necessary, and supplies), and up to 100 days of coverage in a Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF). To qualify for Medicare Part A coverage, the physician orders must include the amount of midnights (count) needed to treat the illness and/or injury. Patients must stay in the hospital for over 72 hours (admitted for inpatient medical care). Hospital stay less than 72 hour, will be considered as outpatient care, and a disqualifier for coverage. At discharge, the primary care physician (PCP) must write an order for SNF services. The Medicare Part A coverage for Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) is contingent to certain conditions, such as, SNF is Medicare certified, patients have days left of coverage in the current benefit period, and the physician determines that daily skilled care must be received under supervision of skilled nurses, and rehabilitation personnel. These type of services will be...
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...Essay for Universal Health Care Universal Health Care is something long overdue in America. With this system, every citizen would be able to have health care coverage. This system means that health care can still run independently, so it does not have to be government run like in socialized medicine. Universal Health Care should be put into place so everyone has the chance to stay in good health. A big problem with the health care system we have now is that people with pre-existing health conditions have a hard time getting health coverage. Someone who has had a disease in the past often cannot get affordable health insurance. Some insurance companies will cover everything but the medical conditions they were diagnosed with before because the insurance companies are afraid of having to spend more for the medical bill. This is because a lot of times a person is at a greater risk of having the disease again, like cancer. This could be the one disease a person needs help with, but their insurance won�t help them with that problem at all. The insurance companies save money at their customer�s expense. The patients are left with two options: leave the disease untreated at risk of making the illness even worse and living in discomfort; or pay the expensive costs to get treated, which could leave that person in debt. This scenario would not occur if the United States had Universal Health Care. No citizen could be denied of health care, no matter what their situation is. �����������...
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...pg.). The Affordable Health Care Act (AHCA), also known as ObamaCare, is a government healthcare program that requires citizens to purchase government-funded healthcare. If ObamaCare is not appealed and the program does launch, it will offer health care to those who have previously not been able to afford it before (Werry n. pg.) Although there are a few benefits to Affordable Health Care Act, the negatives outweigh the positives and will hurt America and its people; therefore, Obama care should be revoked. ObamaCare will cost the government more money than they have to spend. With national debt already being at 6 trillion, the U.S. government cannot afford to put this into act. However, some people who support Obamacare claim there will be enough room in the national budget to afford this health care plan, though none of this has been proven. Imagine this program going into effect and having our country in even more in debt than the crisis state it is already in now. The American government simply cannot afford this program. (Avik Roy) Not only is Obamacare going to cost the government more, it is also going to cost the taxpayers more. Obamacare will provide all people with the same health coverage no matter their financial situation. Since Barack Obama considers the average American making $250,000 a year or more, wealthy families will be taxed to help pay for the families who cannot afford health care. Even though everyone will get the same health benefits, the working...
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...for health services was back in 1798, but the beginning of employer insurance was in the pre-1900s when life expectancy in the U.S. was 47 years. So in 1850, comes the First insurance policy, from 1870 to 1889 we start to see employers beginning to provide healthcare to employees. From 1899 to 1908 we start to see private insurance companies coming into play. In 1910, we have the first group health insurance police when Montgomery Ward and Co. seeks to protect its employees from financial hardship, so they create a plan that pays for lost worktime, but not for medical treatment. In 1911 President Roosevelt makes the 1st attempt to make national health reform. In 1919, health care spending rises, also medical standards rise and people start seeing medicine as science therefore the demand for medical care grows. In 1929, in the year of the great depression, the growing national fiscal crisis worsens health care access and cost problems. (JUST AS AN ILLUSTRATION, URBAN FAMILIES HAD AN AVERAGE ANNUAL INCOME OF $2,000 - $3,000, AND A MEDICAL EXPENSE AVERAGE OF $108 TO $261 [PER FAMILY]). Also, in 1929 a clinic for Los Angeles’ Department of Water and Power created the first HMO (Health Maintenance Organization). So the Great Depression leads to public interest in unemployment insurance and senior benefits, so we have people wanting more health protection and income security between 1930 and 1939. From 1933 to 1938, there is the beginning of the Kaiser Foundation Medical Care Plan...
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...Running head: HERITAGE Heritage Assessment Lara Abdallah Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V Family Health Promotion June 30, 2011 Heritage Assessment Different approaches to health care differ from one culture to another and are evident in the human race. In the health care field, having the knowledge that different people are usually shaped in life through the traditions that they were brought up with, some do use these traditional ways of health maintenance for their need for better health status. Due to the vast population in the United States coming from other countries it is of the utmost importance for nurses to care and understand different cultures and thus provide culturally competent health care. In different societies, communication and culture are closely linked together. “Communication is the means by which culture is transmitted and preserved (Giger & Davidhizar, 2008).” This writer originates from the Greek culture and has a vast array of beliefs and traditions that stem from a long history and culture that is still closely tied to. For example, the Greeks tend to be very superstitious people, it is said that one person can cast “the evil eye”, also known as “to mati”, on another causing sicknesses such as stomach aches or headaches, and that there are different ways to protect one’s self from such evilness. An amulet pinned onto a baby’s clothes or one worn as a bracelet or pendant on a necklace of an adult will help to protect them. When the “evil...
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...Over the centuries there have been many attempts at reforming healthcare, but the starting point of the healthcare system as we know it in the U.S., can be seen at the emergence of the twentieth century. Technological advances in the medical field were advancing posthaste and with that, came vast new opportunities. Skill levels, performance metrics and training all improved dramatically. Hospitals were now seen as facilities for advanced research, surgery and specialized medicine. This is supported by the reading, “But by the early twentieth century, hospitals were becoming high quality organizations with state-of-the-art diagnostic and treatment methodologies” (Showalter, 2017, pg. 71). In the wake of all this, medical care costs...
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