Healthcare for the Underprivileged

Paper Summary:

This paper involves the content analysis of the website for the Community Health Plan of Washington (CPHW) and a seminal article in its newsletter, which aims to determine how dedicated the CPHW is to providing healthcare for the underprivileged. It examines in detail what necessary policies and general messages are mentioned by the health plan with regards to uninsured and underinsured populations. The paper comes to the conclusion that CHPW is not a typical profit-maximizing firm in that it was willing to compromise profits to some extent in order to embrace the needs of this population.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Website and Newsletter: Measurement and Coding
The Uninsured and Underinsured for CHPW: Demographics, Needs and Health Practices
Who are the Uninsured/Underinsured?
Trends in Utilization Patterns: Predictions from the Content Analysis
Financial Impact of the Insured/Underinsured Population for CHPW
Why Does CHPW Embrace this Organizational Culture?
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"Since the uninsured and underinsured population is less likely to receive preventative care, the forecasted trends include higher mortality rates and increased hospitalization for avoidable health problems. This may further increase the cost of healthcare, which creates the 'vicious cycle of increasing healthcare costs' for CHPW divisions.
"There is also the general expectation that the at-risk population will increase their enrollment in the government aided programs that provide healthcare coverage at little or no cost-sharing. Currently, these programs like Medicaid are not at their maximum potential and are expected to have increase enrollment, when the uninsured and underinsured population for CHPW realize that they can qualify and access healthcare."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Babbie, E. (1995). The Practice of Social Research, 7th Edition. Belmont: Wadsworth Publication Company.
• Community Health Plan of Washington (n.d.). Community of Health Plan of Washington: Mission, Values, and Structure. Retrieved on February 25, 2007 from http://www.chpw.org/
• Community Health Plan of Washington (n.d.). Community of Health Plan of Washington: News Letter Fact Sheet. Retrieved on February 26, 2007 from http://www.chpw.org/en/member/news/articles/FactSheet.pdf
• Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured (2006). "Who are the Uninsured? A Consistent Profile Across National Surveys". Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Family Foundation: Publication Number 7553. Retrieved on February 24, 2007 from http://www.kff.org/uninsured/upload/7553.pdf
• McConnell, C. and B., Stanley (2005). Macroeconomics 16th Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill.

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