Abstract This paper address the challenges to determine what parts of the Affordable Care Act can apply to Puerto Rico and the impacting the Medicare, Medicare patient services and employees. Most of the people in the island think that the Affordable Care Act is giving more security and help to address the existing disparities in the healthcare system. With the new Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act, the insurance companies can no longer drop the coverage if one becomes sick, bill individual
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DEFINITION There are significant problems in the way that medical care is reimbursed. In principal, all goods and services should be priced and paid for by the market mechanism of willingness to pay, governed by supply and demand. However medicine lacks this type of mechanism because the payers are disconnected from the consumers. We have come to see this as the way it should be for 2 interrelated reasons. The first is that very few in society could afford care for catastrophic conditions, such as
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the hospital stay to begin with. Now all the follow-up doctor appointments and treatments, without a clue how to make the financial obligations. This is something thousands of people without medical coverage face on a daily basis. Should I go to the doctor? Should I call the ambulance? How will I pay for any extra bills? Sadly many Americans must make a horrible costly choice, to put food on the table or pay for medicines and doctor bills.
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International Monetary Fund’s twice-yearly World Economic Outlook, published this week, Olivier Blanchard, the fund’s chief economist, said the world economy was hamstrung by uncertainty, which was pre- venting companies from investing and households from spending. “Worries about the ability of European policymakers to control the euro crisis and worries about the failure to date of US policymakers to agree on a fiscal plan surely play an important role, but one that is hard to nail down,” he said. The renewed
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Management Changrui Xiao and Arthur Yu Bears Breaking Boundaries 2009 Science, Technology, and Energy Policy White Paper Competition Executive Summary (Abstract) Rising healthcare spending has led to an increase in calls for ways to reduce the cost of healthcare. Amid the debate on the best approach on cut costs in the healthcare system, one of the few bipartisan provisions is the need to integrate modern technology into the storage and transfer of medical records. Current attempts to establish such
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There issues with the pharmaceutical companies, the drugs pricing in America, the impact of different medical career trends, why has the numbers for health care professionals decline over the years, the effect of the different health care policy and what kind of development need to help fix this already crumbling health care industry. There have out cried from the public to congress and health care professionals to help elevate this issue from the American people suffering. There have been little or
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THA 3 1.) Unemployment rate for U.S. Citizens will decrease with immigrants gone if you would like to add anything to my answer you can a. Illegal immigration equals virtually free labor, worker are willing to work extra hard for very low pay in local low-skill jobs (farm, construction, etc) therefore many low-skill Americans are unemployed. Legal qualified immigrants increase more productivity and profitability than Americans with PhDs leaving many Americans in high demand job fields
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for several reasons. One of which it is more convenient. Another reason among many is that it can be cheaper due to the deals that are offered through doing online shopping and also no travel is usually a perk that goes with this method of shopping. What is better than being able to shop in your PJ’s? In order to reach their consumers, businesses are either extending their products to the online world with specially developed websites advertisements; or they are cutting costs by switching from the
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Structure and Firm Strategy “Six months from today I have decided to start my own online service selling cookbooks. Presently, I am working full time with an annual salary of fifty thousand dollars a year. At the time of startup for selling the cookbook I will have made twenty five thousand dollars in the first six months of the year. The twenty five thousand dollars that I give up by moving on to my internet business of selling cookbooks is a nonmonetary opportunity cost. “The opportunity cost
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(Rapoza). Brazil was originally able to secure its spot in the fastest growing nations in the mid to late nineties by bold privatization and economic liberalization policies by then president Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Cardoso’s successor, “Lula” da Silva continued the reforms once Cardoso left office in 2001. Between the terms of Silva and his hand-picked successor and current president, Dilma Rousseff, government spending became excessive and their government controlled pension system now needs to
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