...Care, A Moral Duty This 11 page research paper offers a current overview of the issues associated with the topic of universal healthcare provision and the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Universal health care as a moral and ethical duty is stressed. Bibliography lists 11 sources. Minimum Wage, Healthcare Reform A 3 page research paper that covers two topics. The first half of the paper presents the history of the federally mandated minimum wage, and the second half discusses the Supreme Court's announcement that it will rule on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's required mandate for all Americans to purchase health insurance. Bibliography lists 2 sources. ESRD in NC, Access to Care for Underprivileged A 4 page research paper that examines the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and how it impacts care for underprivileged patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD). Bibliography lists 2 sources. Health Care Changes Resulting from the PPACA In a paper of ten pages, the author writes about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The author of this paper considers four changes within health care as a result of the act including changes of private insurance, changes for the state regulations, the individual mandate provision, also age related coverage and preexisting conditions. There are three sources cited in this paper. Healthcare Reform Policy Position Paper A 4 page research paper that discusses the benefits that can be derived...
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...Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is one of the most substantial reforms in Medicare since 1965. This is now considered the law of the land according to Douglas Holtz-Eaton. The PPACA portrays a “coverage first” strategy. “Sadly, a review a of the state’s experience bodes poorly for the future of national reform.” (Point/Counterpoint 177) There are two major driving factors in which could propose a threat for this reform. The first factor is it costs too much. Many decades ago, healthcare spending was at a minimum and not the focal point of American citizens. The statics show during 1970, national health expenditures were $1,300 per person and consumed 7 cents out of every national dollar, 7% of the GDP. Since the 1970, the spending per person has grown 2% more each year than income per captia. Therefore, healthcare costs have been increasing at such a high rate and will continue to threaten many decades to come. The second factor is the skyrocket of health insurance. This obviously is not mindboggling due to the fact that it is a reaction to the rapid increase of healthcare. Insurance costs have tripled over the past decade, making it hard for the average citizen to afford such outrageous premiums. As a result, less and less people are opting out of health insurance, which is no longer an option due to the new federal law making health insurance mandatory. The PPACA reform is looked upon with a “cost first” approach. This approach allows quality care...
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...Health Care Reform Tina N. Hatton October 25, 2010 HCA 497: Health Care Studies Capstone Lori Bednarchik Reform 1 Introduction The Health Care Reform is said to be one of the most important pieces of legislation today. The Health Reform website says that health care reform will be the answer to uninsured Americans (www. Healthreform.gov). This paper will evaluate three issues involved in the collaboration of health care reform, the committee involved, and will explain teamwork and how it will contribute in efforts towards health care reform. Three Issues The three issues facing health care reform are accessibility, affordability, and sustainability (Shortell, 2009). The first challenge of health care reform is accessibility. Accessibility simply meant that insurers would have to expand insurance coverage to all Americans. This meant eliminating pre-existing conditions that prevented people from gaining insurance coverage, insuring portability across states, mandating the purchase of insurance coverage, standardizing claims to reduce paperwork and providing benefit and cost information to the American people allowing them an opportunity to choose a plan that best fit their needs (Shortell, 2009). The second issue is affordability. Affordability has left uninsured and low-income families helpless due to high premiums. The public option...
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...Health Care Utilization Paper I have chosen to conduct my assignment on Option A. Obama’s Health Care Reform, commonly called ObamaCare but officially called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) or Affordable Care Act (ACA) for short, was signed into law on March 23, 2010 (ObamaCare Facts, n.d.). According to “HHS.gov/HealthCare” (2015), “the Affordable Care Act puts consumers back in charge of their health care…under the law, a new “Patient’s Bill of Rights” gives the American people the stability and flexibility they need to make informed choices about their health” (About the Law). In my paper, I will be discussing why health care reform is part of an ongoing debate and its recent legislation. In what ways have recent health care reform measures expanded or inhibited access to care? One of the ways health care reform have inhibited access to care is ending disapproved insurance coverage due to an individuals pre existing medical condition. In addition, another way recent health care reform has expanded in our society is the availability of affordable insurance to everyone. This is the most popular part of health reform: Health plans must sell coverage to everyone, regardless of pre-existing conditions, and can’t charge more based on health or gender ("Consumerreports.org", 2006-2015). Furthermore, health care reform have inhibited access to care by extending coverage for children up to the...
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...this paper aims to briefly discuss the role of hospitals in the past, present, and future time. In ancient cultures, hospitals were not healthcare institutes as we know them today. The earliest documented institutes provided cure to sick people in temples. Sick people would go to house of worships to get cure for their disease. Furthermore, religious leaders also acted as healthcare providers (Wolper, 2010). As time progressed, hospital became a separate institute, but they were still controlled by religious leaders. These hospitals were viewed as a place for severely ill, house of poor, and place for pilgrims (Wolper, 2010). As structure of hospital started to develop further, in the medieval Islamic world, hospitals became a place were ill people were welcomed and cared for with qualified staff. During the modern era as science started to develop and scientist became more familiar with the human anatomy and physiology, modern hospitals started to appear in Europe. These hospitals were staffed with physicians and surgeons and served only people with medical needs (Wolper, 2010). Moving forward, current hospitals are technological advanced buildings that are staffed with well educated nurses, physicians, and surgeons. Although there are many hospitals that are still supported by churches and other religious groups, most hospitals are owned by government and are even privately owned. Communities around the world especially here in the U.S. view hospitals as healthcare institutes...
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...the highest GDP among developed nations yet it fails to deliver a widespread and affordable health care to its citizens. Will health care reform be able to deliver quality services at affordable cost with its existing workforce crisis in the healthcare system? Number of uninsured Americans has significantly increased, mainly due to aging population and income change. The prevalent issue of America’s healthcare system is insurance coverage, access to healthcare. Americans believe this issue should be prioritized, and it is the direct responsibility of federal government to ensure medical care for those citizens that lack insurance. This essay include history of United States healthcare system, its evolution and how healthcare providers can contain costs of healthcare and provide quality and access to healthcare for everyone. From the beginning of 2014 Affordable Care Act by Obama government is trying to solve the enduring issue of American healthcare system. It is a step in the right direction but this reform is facing lots of resistance from Republican Party, that this reform will put country in debt stress. Many Americans are concerned with quality and access to healthcare with the influx in number of insured entering the healthcare system which is already facing the workforce crisis. United States Health care History Healthcare in United States is enduring issue and it is very sensitive subjects for Americans. United states from the beginning choose a market approach...
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...Healthcare, is it still a Benefit? Donnalynn Sullivan Empire State College BME-213754 Organizational Strategy and Performance Instructor: David Morrell December 17, 2012 Table of Contents Table of Contents……………………………………………………………………………… 2 Abstract…………………………………………………………………………………………3 Healthcare, Is it Still a Benefit………………………………………………………………….4 The Reason Behind the Employee Benefit of Healthcare………………………………………5 Controlling Healthcare Costs, the Strategies and the Benefits…………………………………7 The Healthcare Reform…………………………………………………………………………9 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………….11 References…………………………………………………………………………………….12 Abstract This paper will address some of the issues and trends in health care as an employee benefit. “Employee benefits range dramatically between jobs and careers. Some jobs, such as those that pay minimum wage, do not provide employee benefits while others provide several benefits. Great employee benefits include a health insurance plan, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance and a retirement fund. Healthcare, is it still a Benefit? Health insurance ranks as the most important benefit that employees seek from an employer. This topic has been on the hot seat for most companies and employers. Health care costs are on the rise and companies are trying to find ways to combat it. How does this affect the employer/company? How does this affect the benefit...
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...Diane Hotaling HT1000 Week 3 assignment 3/18/2014 The 5W’s behind recent healthcare reform initiatives and how they have, are or can impact the delivery of healthcare and HIM professionals. There have been many controversies over healthcare reform ideas and all the issues that may or may not arise affecting everything from the delivery and costs to the patients, HIM and surrounding professionals roles, and the politicians and the different ideas they stand behind. Examples of some of the most influential and recent initiatives are HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)enforced in 1996 and ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) and its revision HITECH(Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Act) of 2009 Each of these reforms have impacted the delivery of healthcare and therefore everyone in the U.S and especially with each reform new challenges, changes, benefits and/or problems for the HIM professionals and their roles and all they consist of. An HIM professional can work in many environments, including from home, private offices, doctors offices, nursing homes, hospitals and anywhere else that healthcare and/or PHI and/or EHR are handled. The HIM profession not only exists physically in numerous healthcare places but can work in numerous areas in the field such as medical billing and coding, a secretary, in any health area as a clerk, with many electronic systems such as HHS, MPI, HER, RIS and so many more and as the medical...
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...Assignment 1: U.S. Health Care System Strayer University The lack of national health care reform, astronomical coverage costs and the rapid/continuous increase in the number of uninsured individuals in the United States has prompted government to develop plans to provide and accommodate for medical care to aid the low income, to include the impoverished. Several local health departments do not only have the responsibility for the core public health functions; but are increasingly called upon to provide health care services for those individuals who cannot afford it. This assignment discusses the three forces affecting the development of our healthcare system. The three areas of interest and selected to discuss are diseases, availability, and social organizations. Several other areas have been impactful on the development; however, these areas seemed more prevalent and more commonly discussed regarding healthcare plus its reform. The evolving area of information technology in the healthcare industry will be discussed. The importance and relevance of information technology is a key contributor of communication. Information technology regardless of the industry is an extensive key thing for business, but relevant to healthcare information it articulates and organizes, the accessibility. Our health system has focalized on treating short term health concerns; however, chronic conditions such as obesity, diabetes, or heart disease are rapidly growing at epidemic portions...
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...that affect our healthcare system and the development. The three that I will cover are disease, availability, and social organizations. There are more but These three seems to stand out more because they are top of the list on talks when you mention healthcare reform. In this paper I will also address the popularity of information technology in the health care industry. Information is an important part of communication this is a big thing in any rim of business but when it come to healthcare information needs to be organized so that it can be accessible for any level of healthcare. The absence of national health care reform and the growing number of uninsured individuals in the United States have prompted states to develop plans to provide medical care for the low income and the indigent. Many local health departments are not only responsible for the core public health functions; but they are increasingly called upon to provide person health care services for those who cannot afford it. This article chronicles the development of the health care system in the United States and describes the contemporary role of the local public health department. (J Health Hum Serv Adm. 2006 Winter;29(3):336-59). This article will take me right into what I plan to discuss. The first part of discussion is the three forces that affects the development of health care is disease. How disease is impacting our healthcare is scary. Our health system is good on treating short term problems...
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...How Does Cost Affect the HealthCare Delivery System? An In-Depth Look at the Health Care Delivery System and Cost. | | Princess L. Brigham | 11/23/2010 | HSA 6414: Social Dimensions and Issues in Health Care | ABSTRACT How does cost affect the health care delivery system? This research focuses on the cost of the health care delivery system and how it affects today’s society. High costs, gap-ridden coverage, and sporadic quality are the health care problems that most concern Americans. Yet most of the policy discussion is focused on the issue of coverage. Health care is expensive because of the pervasive entitlement attitude held by literally everyone in the system: patients, providers, suppliers, insurers. Government insurance (Medicare, Medicaid, veterans, Department of Defense) covers 87 million; tax breaks subsidize 176 million in employer coverage; insurers and other third-party payers take care of the bills for 85 percent of Americans. There is little awareness of the full cost or value of medical treatment on the part of consumers or providers, and little opportunity for individuals to choose their own coverage or make informed decisions with their doctors about treatment. Health care costs are far higher in the United States than in any other advanced nation, whether measured in total dollars spent, as a percentage of the economy, or on a per capita basis. And health costs here have been rising significantly faster than the overall economy or personal incomes...
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...HSM 543 Health Services Finance Spring 2013 Trends Toward the Innovations of Integrated Healthcare Service Systems Abstract The healthcare industry is a large and dynamic sector with many unique characteristics. It includes hospitals, health systems, ambulatory clinics, medical group practices, and other organizations providing health-care services. Business and leaders must be well equipped in traditional management knowledge and practices to manage the unique aspects of the health-services industry. The success of the new Health Care Reform depends on the cost, types of coverage and technological advances. Careful elevation and true quality assurance programs will reduce some the nepotism that goes on in our system. This will allow the best person, business, or technology to be used as it is needed. The innovation that has been created over the past ten years have allowed for improvements as well as lowering the mortality rate. Japan system allows for frequent health checks and even house calls are being done electronically. This paper looks at various costs of the Healthcare system, technological alternatives available in the Healthcare system and look at the pros and cons of different options available. History of the United States Healthcare If we compare the quality of health care today with the health care prevailing a century ago, it has dramatically...
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...Taylor LA 298 October 17th 2013 America’s immigration dilemma Illegal immigration has always been at the forefront when it comes to the domestic policy issues that this country faces and it has divided the nation from deep patriotic Americans to those that have emigrated to the U.S and call it home; all the way to the halls of Capitol Hill along the political lines. The question that is on everyone’s mind is what to do with the millions of undocumented immigrants already settled here for years, mass deportation that would result in breaking up families or do we grant them amnesty and a path to legalization? Many presidents have come along and were not able to bring the lawmakers to the table and draft up a comprehensive immigration reform bill, a bill that would fix the broken immigration system, secure the borders to keep criminals and drugs out of the country and to help all the undocumented immigrants come out of the shadows towards legalization and be able to pay taxes and work and contribute to the economy. Many in Capitol Hill say they do not support any bill that does not address securing the borders first as a priority before any path to legalization that some equate to amnesty. The U.S is a country of immigrants many people say yet its current immigration system is broken and it is nowhere near to being fixed, the state of Arizona has taken it upon itself and moved ahead of the federal government and passed what is called an extremely strict and very controversial...
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...Healthcare reform advocates are undoubtedly relieved to have successfully facilitated a historical legislative process - the culmination of which resulted in President Barack Obama passing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), a federal statute which, in tandem with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (HCERA) of 2010, formed the Health Care Reform Act of 2010. This dual set of reforms jointly address many of the undesirable issues that have transpired within the United States health care system, such as offering citizens a cost-effective broad choice of Insurance coverage, bringing skyrocketing healthcare costs under control, making Medicare more efficient, and enacting consumer protection laws which will hold insurance companies accountable for the prevalent discriminatory actions which have pervaded the system (Obama, 2009). However, HCERA opponents will continue to utilize legislative protocol to upend the policy. As with any perceived discrepancy in the legislative process, opponents of HCERA are outraged that the “Democratic leadership’s decision to “ram through” reform using budget reconciliation to modify the Senate-passed bill sufficiently to make it acceptable to the House” (Aaron & Reischauer, 2010). As much as “outrage” may have no legitimate place in policy-making, high emotions will nonetheless negatively affect future debate. The level of vitriol from the opposition to health care reform reached unprecedented heights, with people...
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...| Health care system in the U.S. and changes by Obama | | Semir Golic30.11.2010 | Table of Contents: 1. Introduction 3 2. The History of health care in the USA 4 3. The Health Care System 5 4.1 How health insurance works 4.2 Different insurance programs 4.3 Problems 3.3.1 Financial & bureaucratic problems 3.3.2 Conflict with the American Dream 4. Changes of Obama 9 5.4 Reform of the system 5.5 Problems 5. Evaluation 11 6. Bibliography 13 1. Introduction As in we know the United States strive in most categories to be the number one of the nations, be it military power, or be it technological innovation as much as economic power. Usually they tend to have success in this aspiration and so we would assume that their health care system counts to the most modern and best working innovations on the world. As it is confirmed and proven by many different organizations we know different. “Seven years ago, the World Health Organization made the first major effort to rank the health systems of 191 nations. France and Italy took the top two spots; the United States was a dismal 37th. More recently, the highly regarded Commonwealth Fund has pioneered in comparing the United States with other advanced nations through surveys of patients and doctors and analysis of other data. Its latest report, issued in May, ranked the United States last...
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