Abstract This paper first explains the details of Obama's new healthcare plan and then examines the question of whether or not the new plan can simply be considered a new tax on the American people. The paper then traces the history of healthcarereform back to President Teddy Roosevelt and explores the ideology behind the Democrats' position on healthcare. This paper examines the concerns and potential negative consequences behind Obama's healthcarereform and analyzes it from both the Republican and Democratic parties' point of view.
From the Paper "The topic of health care reform and its impact on society is a growing issue and should be address correctly. How will this affect company insurance policies offered to employees? The health care reform plan would gradually decline coverage for current insurance holders though companies because the mandated amount would be lowered. This would mean keeping your old policies would mean pocketing a few extra dollars from your own bank account to make up for the excess difference lost. Democrats explain that the persistent health care reform policy is to help the people, but republicans view this as a way to tax the wealthy and give to the poor. This health care reform is definitely a tax because it aims to benefit the lower/middle working class at the expensive of the wealthy 1% of Americans."
Abstract The writer of this paper examines, compares and contrasts the two presidents? healthcarereform efforts and their successes and failures. It discusses the many social and political factors involved with each of the presidents? attempts at healthcarereform.
From the Paper "The party line politics have always been influential in the development of policy in the United States, and the issue of health care reform was no exception. While the federal administrations of Harry Truman and Bill Clinton grappled with the debate over the nation's healthcare system the state administrations lined up on either side of the debate.
Truman was well known during his reign as president to push for health care reform. Truman wanted the nation to adopt a one size fits all type of health care policy that would allow all Americans to receive healthcare regardless of societal, or socioeconomic status. His idea was not only shot down but he was accused of designing an communist based plot to begin the change of American from a Democratic body to one of dictatorship. The scare tactic worked and the idea of Universal Health care was quickly extinguished(Kazi, 1994). "
Abstract This paper is an analysis of an interview with a healthcare worker, a nurse. The purpose of the interview was to discover whether the recent healthcarereforms impacted on a particular nurse.
Abstract This paper examines how the healthcarereforms instituted under the past two presidencies have failed to address the problems of uninsured Americans in the United States. The first part of this paper examines the long road to healthcarereforms. It pays special attention to the thorny issue of universal insurance and the trends towards the privatization of healthcare. The next part of the paper then focuses specifically on the field of nursing. It looks at how healthcarereforms have changed the nature of a nurse's job, increasing both the level and difficulty of a nurse's workload. These changes also have significant implications for the quality of patient care in healthcare facilities and the rise in the number of self-care practitioners in the United States.
From the Paper "Many nurses also report a rise in patient acuity. The privatization of healthcare has resulted in a new mindset in the medical workplace, one that requires hospitals to limit admissions to only "the sickest patients for the shortest possible stays" (Sochalski and Aiken 1999:1). In addition to the increase in the number of patients, nurses are also managing an increased number of patients who are much more ill and who require more attention. As a result, the level and difficulty of a nurse's workload has significantly increased."
Abstract This paper investigates the role of primary care nurse practitioners in respect to healthcare and healthcarereform. The failure of primary healthcare is critically assessed, in the respect that healthcare is currently "managed" by independent "for- profit" organizations, where there is an emphasis on financial success rather than patient welfare. This paper also places a strong emphasis on the role of nurse care practitioners in the state of Florida and in community healthcare clinics.
Abstract This short paper discusses Clinton's 1993 "State of the Union Address" and promise that during his presidency all Americans would find themselves covered by some form of medical insurance. Seven years later, in the twilight of his presidency he continues to promise healthcarereform. This paper also looks at why nurses support healthcarereform. The focus of the paper will be on the benefits of healthcarereform.
An examination of the current US healthcare system, highlighting the necessity for the introduction of reform and improvements in order to assist all sections of the community.
Abstract This paper deals with the necessity to introduce a healthcare program in the US that is available to all persons and that deals with all relevant issues. The paper highlights the decline in the effectiveness of the current system and calls on the nursing profession to introduce a cost effective program and to encourage co-operation between patients and the healthcare programs. The paper continues by emphasizing that the nursing profession is in the front line and is able to introduce an affordable medical aid system to suit all facets of society.
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The issue
Background
Nurse's relevance on the issue
Conclusion
From the Paper "The quality of health care continues to decline and be inadequate as crisis management is more and more becoming the patchwork solution for the nation's ineffectual healthcare system. This is not to say that there are not certain elements that of the current health care system that should not be maintained and continued. Reform should build upon the best parts of the current health care system and begin moving toward patient wellness and care. Nursing organizations realize what is needed in the area of reform and plan to convert rather than eliminate the current health care system."
Abstract This complete 5-chapter dissertation examines healthcare delivery practices in three tertiary urban healthcare facilities to identify those components that were deemed important from a patient satisfaction perspective. A series of original graphs reflecting the results of a patient satisfaction survey are also included, as well as an original survey at the appendix.
From the Paper "Over the last 50 years, the healthcare system in the United States and abroad has undergone a series of rapid and significant changes. Some of these changes have been the result of innovative developments in medical science and technology that have benefited patients and have prolonged and saved the lives of millions. Some of these changes, however, have only served to limit patient access to prescribed treatment and diminished the quality of care. Research has shown time and again that a patient's perception of the quality of medical care being received is directly correlated to the manner in which that patient responds to medical care, with higher perceptions of quality providing improved outcomes over less quality care - even if these perceptions are not solidly based on fact. These patient-centered outcomes have assumed greater importance as the primary means of measuring the effectiveness of healthcare delivery. The patient satisfaction survey used in this research project was based in part from the Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire developed by Linder-Pelz et al. for this purpose. Generally speaking, the measures of a clinic visit that were deemed important to a patient used in this instrument are comprised of: 1) doctor conduct; 2) convenience; 3) appointment getting; and, 4) the visit in general. Based on these findings, recommendations are provided to assist healthcare managers and clinicians in developing appropriate and effective patient satisfaction programs in any healthcare setting."
Abstract This nine page undergraduate paper examines future aspects of healthcare from the perspective of healthcare administrators and managers. The writer notes that it is evident that challenges must be overcome, despite the numerous problems presented by historical, social, ethical, technological, and financial factors. The writer points out that at the present time, the healthcare system in the United States is confronting rising costs and undiminished expectations, and the system is in crisis. Further, the writer discusses that controversial issues of socialized medicine, cost shifting, and budget deficits will have to be addressed if needed reforms of the American healthcare system are to be implemented.
From the Paper "In examining future aspects of health care from the perspective of health care administrators and managers, it is evident that they must overcome the numerous challenges presented by historical, social, ethical, technological, and financial factors. At the present time, the health care system in the United States is confronting rising costs and undiminished expectations, and the system is in crisis. Controversial issues of socialized medicine, cost shifting, and budget deficits will have to be addressed if needed reforms of the American health care system are to be implemented. But reforming health care in the United States is contentious because it will affect the level of services and involve tens of millions of beneficiaries and taxpayers."
Abstract This paper presents an assessment of the economics of healthcare costs. The paper argues that the problem is a complex maze of related issues such as funding mechanisms, delivery structures and individual responsibility. Additionally, the paper recommends a national healthcare system for managing family healthcare costs that is based on universal access to healthcare.
From the Paper "Health care economics is entering another state of turmoil in the United States as the moderating effects of the managed care concept on increasing health care costs appears to have run its course. The Congress and state governments believed the promises of managed care proponents that managed care would lower health care costs dramatically and are resisting rapid increases in health care costs. Managed care companies are responding by dropping governmentally-funded patient groups including Medicare and Medicaid raising charges to..."
Abstract This paper examines how the question of whether healthcare is a right or a privilege is highly controversial. It looks at how some feel that in a wealthy country such as the U.S.A., all citizens should have access to free healthcare, as a basic human right and how others believe that, like all commodities, healthcare should be paid for. The paper argues that healthcare is a basic human right that should be available to all U.S. citizens, regardless of whether they are able to pay for it.
Abstract This paper argues that the above quotation accurately sums up the situation of healthcare in the United States. As is argued, there are many aspects to this mess. The writer points out that the most important is that millions of Americans do not have healthcare, or have insufficient healthcare. Further, the writer notes that millions of Americans are unproductive because of this, and thousands die. Other problems mentioned are that the healthcare system is more expensive than it needs to be, due to a number of factors.
Abstract The paper discusses how the shortage of healthcare and poorer standards of quality have tested the ability of society to provide the medical support that the population needs. The paper relates that the present standard of care has raised concerns among healthcare providers and patients regarding the implementation of new methods of improving the standard of care. This paper provides an overview of the healthcare industry's standard of care and suggests concepts that hospital management and healthcare providers could utilize to improve the quality of healthcare overall.
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Standard of Care Conclusion
From the Paper "In the medical profession, the business process perspective refers to internal processes. Metrics based on this perspective allow the managers to know how well their business is running, and whether its products and services conform to patient's requirements. These metrics have to be carefully designed by those who know these processes most intimately, usually includes the identification of mission-oriented processes, and support processes. Mission-oriented processes are the special functions of government offices, whereas the support processes are more repetitive, and easier to benchmark and measure using generic metrics. The patient perspective can be improved by enhancing the quality of care, and perhaps by offering additional services needed by the physicians that are not currently addressed or not stressed enough. The final perspective, financing healthcare, involves timely and accurate funding where the implementation of a corporate database would ideally centralize the majority of the processing of the data in addition to automating the processing of financial data. A hospital or health care provider could successfully implement this perspective by including additional metrics, such as other types of financial related data, such as risk-assessment and cost-benefit data."
Abstract My research compares and contrasts the healthcare system of the United States and that of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Without a doubt, the most noticeable difference between the two health systems is that the United States system works under the managed care model while the UAE system follows that used in one way or another by most of the developed nations: the universal healthcare system.
