...Universal insurance Course Project Implementation of Universal Health Health Policy and Economics June 22, 2014 Diera Kelley DvKelley30@Gmai.com Table of Contents Executive Summary Pg. 3 Define the Problem Pg. 4 Literature Review Pg. 4 Problem Analysis Pg. 9 I. The Uninsured II. The insured Possible Solutions Pg. 11 Solution and its Implementation Pg. 17 Justification Pg.19 References Pg.21 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The current health care crisis is depicted to be solved by the usage of Universal Health Coverage or UHC. This defined as the process of providing quality healthcare coverage with the aspect of financial gain or hardship. Since the assembly in 2005 of the World Health Assembly several countries have...
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...National Health Care Spending in the U.S. Erin Luchaco HCS/440 May 21, 2012 Vernita Davis Health care is a vital service that daily touches the lives of millions of Americans through happy, tragic, and vulnerable events. Currently, there is a debate going on in the United States about health care reform bringing up topics of concern such as access, cost, rights, efficiency, quality and value. Even though the United States has rates that cost about twice as much as other industrialized nations for health care, we are still way behind in efficiency and advancements. The World Health Organization (WHO), in 2000, ranked the U.S. health care system as the highest in cost, first in responsiveness, 37th in overall performance, and 72nd by overall level of health (among 191 member nations included in the study). (WHO, World health statistics, 2000). This is a large sum of money being taken from our American citizens with poor results, especially since there are still millions of citizens that do not have any medical coverage (the United States is one of few industrialized nations to not guarantee access to health care for its citizens) and those who do have coverage are not satisfied with the current level of quality. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “The United States spent more on health care per capita ($$8,086.00), and more on health care as percentage of its GDP (17.9%), than any other nation. (World health statistics. 2011)...
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...healthcare system, and instead believe that free market ways of thinking/basic truths/rules and competition is necessary to secure/make sure of good enough healthcare for Americans. In the Texas Republican program they say, "We support market-based, people and businesses that are not part of the governments attempts to begin something new to improve the portability, quality and affordability of healthcare. We support customer choice of providers (cite)." They also favor laws creating different health care methods, argue against efforts by the FDA to control and hold down and stop vitamins and natural supplements, and believe in Americans' right to refuse disease-preventing...
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...In Barbara Ehrenreich’s book, Nickel and Dimed, she leaves her Ph.D. and money behind and attempts to live in low-wage America. She investigates the hardships of living with such low wages and uncovers the truth about covering the cost of living with a minimum wage job. Ehrenreich exposes the injustices and corruption of living in the economy's lower depths. “If you have only a room, with a hot plate at best, you can’t save by cooking up huge lentil stews that can be frozen for the week ahead. You eat fast food or the hot dogs and Styrofoam cups of soup that can be microwaved in a convenience store.” (pg. 27) Society preaches that people must eat healthy, what people do not realize is that healthy food is not accessible for all. Stores such as Whole Foods or Trader Joes are out of the question for people living on minimum wage. Throughout her journey through lower class America Ehrenreich did not have access to healthy foods, which is, simply put, an atrocity. During Ehrenreich’s first job as a waitress at Hearthside she works from 2:00pm to 10:00pm for $2.43 an hour plus tips. Throughout her time in Key...
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...Repossession Mambo is an interesting book based on fiction. The book itself is entertaining, highlighting a harsh reality that may be possible in the future. In this book, a person can live virtually forever with the help of artificial organs (artiforgs). These artiforgs are sold by a large corporation named the Credit Union and they are extremely expensive. While almost anyone with credit can qualify for these expensive parts, once a person falls behind 90 days on their payments, the Credit Union will send a “courteous” repo man to take back their property. This may sound farfetched in today’s world, but the truth is that this book has a hint of truth that may be alarming to the public. The Repossession Mambo might seem to focus solely on health care, but the book also symbolizes corporate greed that uses the credit industry to extend credit to poor individuals that know they won’t be able to repay. Some examples of realities today that closely resemble the book are: the tobacco industry, the credit industry, and most definitely the current health care industry. In the book The Repossession Mambo, the Credit Union sells artificial organs to people who can’t afford them, but who need them. They claim that the person owes it to their family to stay alive. While the Union is keeping the person alive by financing the artiforgs, they are also slowly killing them because the individual can’t afford the parts. The Debt alone is a huge burden for the individual, but also the many complications...
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...Summary The health care in the United States has often been credited with being some of the best money can buy, though with the caveat that it does not provide health care to all its citizens, and millions are left with woefully little or no health care coverage. However, in Canada, universal health care serves its entire population, though there is also criticism that the care it does provide lacks the quality of the most expensive health care services in the U.S. This paper will examine the truth behind the quantity and quality argument between the universalized health care in Canada and the health care system in the U.S., while also taking into account the recent reforms made to the U.S. system and how it impacts such a comparison. Canada and the United States Comparison of the health care systems in Canada and the United States are often made by government, public health and public policy analysts. The two countries had similar health care systems before Canada reformed its system in the 1960s and 1970s. The United States spends much more money on health care than Canada, on both a per-capita basis and as a percentage of GDP. In 2006, per-capita spending for health care in Canada was US$3,678; in the U.S., US$6,714. The U.S. spent 15.3% of GDP on health care in that year; Canada spent 10.0%. In 2006, 70% of health care spending in Canada was financed by government, versus 46% in the United States. Total government spending per capita in the U.S. on health care was 23% higher...
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...|The Case For Single Payer, Universal Health Care For The United States | | | | | | | | | |Nicole Jones | |April 2011 | |HS 544 Health Policy and Economics | |Fowler | | | Table Of Contents Page Section 1: Executive Summary …………………………………………….. 3 Section 2: Introduction …………………………………………….. 4 Section 3: Literature Review ……………………………………………… 5 Section 4: Problem Analysis ……………………………………………… 10 Section 5: Solutions and Implementations ………………………………………… 17 Section 6: Justification ……………………………………………… 18 Section 7: References ……………………………………………… 20 Executive Summary Almost four decades ago, Canada and the United States had very similar health care systems. Today, they are very different. The...
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...Conclusion 12 Terminology 13 References 14 ERMA: Electronic Record Management Application ERMA, or the Electronic Record Management Application, was designed and developed by Correct Care Solutions for use in correctional facilities across the country. Used primarily in the ambulatory setting and clinics within correctional facilities. ERMA was primary created, and copyright protected for Correct Care Solutions in 2011 and since has been implemented in over two hundred correctional facilities. In 2013, the El Paso County Criminal Justice Center underwent a change of contract, this meant that their medical department was no longer ran by Correctional Health Care, and as such was no longer privy to their current electronic health record Vizion. The conversion from Vizion to ERMA would end up taking almost 2 full years to be put into full effect. The program implementation was meant with many challenges, these included both legalities and overall functionality. Compared to its predecessor ERMA is was still in its infancy and had a long way to go before it would be meet the minimum requirements necessary not only for correctional care, but also to maintain all the professional accreditations that come with being able to properly document and care for patients being detained in correctional facilities. There have been many challenges and setbacks to introducing, implementing and managing the ERMA program. From its inception it has been feared,...
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...And How It Effects Nursing Care: I. What is HIPAA? II. Patient’s Bill of Rights III. Violating HIPAA IV. Ways Hospitals Protect Patient Privacy V. Conclusion: Nurses on the frontline In order to explain how the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act are affecting nursing care today, the act itself must be defined. HIPAA is one of the most important acts that have been passed to protect patients’ privacy and give them security. HIPAA privacy standards include some of the most restrictive guidelines in regards to accessing identifiable health information and disclosures. The guidelines were set into place to protect the patient from having their information disclosed verbally, written or by electronic transfer (Pozgar, 2012). The Privacy rule is clearly defined as “HIPAA”, which ensures the privacy and protection of all health information. Before HIPAA many states had their own standards and guidelines for healthcare privacy and practice (ANA, 2014). HIPAA has given us unison and uniformity as a healthcare nation, not just a state. The standards and guidelines protecting the privacy of an individual’s health information were issued by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HIPAA 101, 2014). The privacy rule, does allow the use of healthcare information to promote the best quality of health care. The rule also protects the confidentiality of the patient. HIPAA also affects the patient’s own access to their medical records....
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...definition when one considers the fact that homelessness is not a natural state, but one created and maintained by political agendas.Our government is not doing all that it can to combat our nation’s homelessness.In 1987, the McKinney Homeless Assistance Act was put into law. (Burger, 68-83) However, our government has moved away from the need to address the causes of homelessness. Instead our government has focused on the individual responsibility of those who become homeless, blaming their misfortune as their own fault. (Baum, 5-9) It is this belief that has helped to increase the homelessness of our nation, and it is this belief that will continue to do so if our government does not take a closer and more realistic look at the causes behind homelessness in our nation. Unless our government commits to ending homelessness through public education, policy advocacy, and technical assistance, homelessness will become a national disaster for the United States. Right now our government is not doing all it can towards putting into place the necessary solutions to combat homelessness. Who are/where the homeless people are...
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...cultural attitude. They state an accepted truth at the heart of their music: Having the blues goes along with being black in America. In addition, from the time we are young boys, black males have ingrained into us an idea of manhood that requires a silence about feelings, a withholding of emotion, and ability to bear burdens alone, and a refusal to appear "weak." The internal pressure to adhere to this concept of masculinity only increases as we sometimes experience various forms of racism in a society that historically has sought to deny us our manhood. The internal wall that often keeps black men away from psychotherapy goes along with external barriers built just as high, if not higher. Mental health practitioners are overwhelmingly white, with the proportion of black psychiatrists, psychologists, and psychoanalysts estimated at less than three percent of the nation's total. This would mean that even if black men were to break through the self-imposed barriers and seek professional help for mental issues, it may be difficult to find someone with whom they can build a rapport, and whom they feel can relate to them, and they can trust. This feeling of comfort is what allows a patient to reveal his most intimate secrets. As Dr. Richard Mouzon, a prominent black clinical psychologist puts it, "Many of us grow up feeling that it is dangerous to give up too much of yourself to the white man." There's no denying that access to mental health care is restricted...
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...partner, cannot receive medical benefits or health insurance under their partner’s coverage, as most husband and wives do, cannot adopt a child, and most essentially, they cannot create a bond of unity to express their love through a legal marriage. Many of these rights heterosexuals take for granted. One of the largest differences for a homosexual is living a life of fear. Along with all of their day to day activities that mirror any heterosexual, they must also deal with the stress of being perceived as different and unacceptable to the society which they are a part of. Homosexuals must know the places they are welcomed as a gay person, and the places where they must hide their true feelings. In recent years, homosexuals have been fighting long and hard to get the same rights and benefits as their heterosexual counterparts. Now, employers and health care providers are being forced to listen to their cries for equality. Most employers offer health benefits to their heterosexual employees and their families. Some companies cover the total cost of this benefit; others cover the bulk of the cost while the employee contributes as a small amount each week out if their salary. In some instances this can account for 25% of the employee’s total wages (Partners-Domestic). Employers are using the excuse of high expenses as their main reason behind not offering these same benefits to homosexual employees. They think it will cost more in health care contributions for homosexual employees than...
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...Health Care in the Early 1960s Rosemary A. Stevens, Ph.D. My topic, health care in the early 1960s, has a double set of meanings for me. I am a historian, and the 1960s are now "history," ripe for new interpretations. Yet I was also an immigrant to the United States in 1961, fresh from working as an administrator in the British National Health Service. The period immediately before the Medicare legislation in 1965 shines in my memory with the vividness of new impressions: those of a young health care student trying to make sense of the U. S. health care system, and indeed, of the United States. The health care system and the United States as a society stand, in many ways, as proxy for each other, now as then: The whole tells you much about the part, and the part about the whole. In the early 1960s, health care was already a massive enterprise. By the late 1950s, hospitals employed far more people than the steel industry, the automobile industry, and interstate railroads. One of every eight Americans was admitted annually as an inpatient (Somers and Somers, 1961). To study health care, with all its contradictions and complexities, in the 1960s as in the present, is to explore the character and ambiguities of the United States itself, that vast, brash, divided yet curiously hopeful Nation. On the face of it, the United States was a country blessed by plenty in the 1960s, with hospitals and professionals that were the envy of the world. Among the marvels of modern hospitals that...
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...parties as follows: The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissention, which in different ages & countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders & miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security & repose in the absolute power of an Individual: and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty (J.E. Quidam, 2008). This ideology seems to have evolved and held truth for the past 227 years as now Americans are even more divided by political parties than any other stature. According to Edward S. Greenberg and Benjamin I. Page’s “The Struggle for Democracy”, political ideology is defined as a system of interrelated and coherently organized political beliefs and attitudes, which include conservatives, liberals, populists, and libertarians (145). Greenburg and Page further describe that the “two dimensions” that Americans generally divide along are government’s roles in economy and society (147). Conservatism can be defined as the disposition to preserve or restore what is established and traditional and to limit change (2013). There two different types of conservatives, economic and social. Economic...
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...amenities one could dream of? In reality, Ghana is a struggling country in regards to their health infrastructure and economy. There are many reasons as to why Ghana is in the state it is in today. From colonialism to the rather recent gaining of their independence, Ghana is a relatively new country and it is no surprise that they are currently experiencing growing pains. Because of these growing pains it has resulted in a domino like effect, influencing all facets of the nation. A clearer picture one should paint of the country of Ghana is a nation divided between modern and old, rich and poverty stricken, Westerners and natives. These demographics are essential in the dividing of the country for the issues it faces today are complex and need a well planned all reaching solution to curb the current trends in Ghana today. With that being said, Ghana is a country in the process of modernizing their current platforms/infrastructure but with this growth still come a variety of healthcare issues and diseases such as HIV and Malaria that need attention if this trends are to be curbed. Before one can delve further into the current health issues plaguing the nation of Ghana it is imperative to have a working knowledge on the nation’s history that can be seen as the underlying causes for the problems today. It can be argued that the Europeans colonization of Ghana is what kicked off their health problems. In 1471 the Portuguese were the first to arrive on Ghana’s coast (Andreas, 2011)...
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