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This paper relates that the home healthcare industry, according to some estimates, is a $40b annually industry with more than 20k unique competitors. The paper discusses how the vast majority of home healthcare industry consumers consist of the sick and the elderly and Medicare/Medicaid programs comprise a significant percentage of the payment revenues. The paper also notes that the home healthcare industry is largely seen as one of the most viable healthcare alternatives to the rapidly increasing costs associated with traditional healthcare in the U.S. Finally, the paper relates that a survey of some home healthcare patients reveals that home healthcare is largely seen as positive but that many issues exist relative to quality of care and choice of service provider.

Tags:home, healthcare, elderly

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This paper discusses the rising healthcare costs in the United States and its long-term effects. Several of the primary drivers of increasing healthcare costs are examined with their short-term solutions introduced thereafter. The research concludes with the examination of the primary modes of healthcare deliver, Medicare and managed/employment based healthcare programs and the overall solution to the long-term healthcare system problems. The result is the recommendation that the healthcare system be nationalized and several cost control measures mandated by Congress.

From the Paper
"The United States is courting disaster with its current trend in rising healthcare costs coupled with its aging population. In the United States healthcare is fully privatized with employees being offered healthcare insurance through the employer which is usually subsidized by the employer or healthcare insurance is available privately but is expensive. Additionally, there are several federally mandated programs such as Medicare and Medicaid that provide some degree of medical coverage to the elderly and the underserved. Clearly, the United States' medical healthcare system is in dire need of an overhaul; otherwise, the ramifications of having a very large percentage of its population become essentially uninsured, which is to say uncared for, are dire. Below are the primary drivers of this increasingly unaffordable system followed by a recommended solution. The Prescription Drug Industry The federal government must contain the spiraling prescription drug costs."

Tags:rising, healthcare, costs

Abstract
This is an opinion paper looking at whether the individual or society should pay for healthcare. The thesis of the paper is that a system of universal healthcare with strong incentives for individual responsibility is the best option. The paper argues that this type of system allows individuals to receive the healthcare they need, which ultimately benefits society, and also encourages people to take responsibility for the fiscal implications of their healthcare choices.

From the Paper
"Is healthcare a right or a privilege? While, on its surface an issue of ethics, a practical view of this question begs an analysis of its financial implications. With the cost of healthcare to consumers increasing and fewer companies willing to pay for these increases, workers pay more. The corollary question arises as to who should bear the primary responsibility of paying for healthcare -- the individual or society? Many nations provide universal healthcare and others such as Canada, that previously did not provide it, are moving..."

Tags:healthcare, universal healthcare

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The paper discusses how the cost of healthcare in recent decades has far outpaced cost of living increases in comparison to all other consumer markets. The paper summarizes a recent article concerning President Obama's healthcare platform. More specifically, the current discussion summarizes the main point of the article entitled "Healthcare Stressed at Obama's Fiscal Responsibility Summit" and connects its relevance to the subject of healthcare finance. Following an objective analysis, the discussion concludes with a subjective evaluation concerning this writer's personal feelings about the subject.

From the Paper
"As any informed citizen knows, the cost of healthcare in recent decades has far outpaced cost of living increases in comparison to all other consumer markets. The following study summarizes a recent article concerning President Obama's healthcare platform. More specifically, the current discussion summarizes the main point of the article entitled Healthcare stressed at Obama's fiscal responsibility summit and connects its relevance to the subject of healthcare finance. Following an objective analysis, discussion concludes with a subjective evaluation concerning my

Tags:healthcare reform, obama healthcare, managed care

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This writer of this paper examines the current situation in the Native American community and the absence of acceptable healthcare services offered. Topics discussed in this paper include: Healthcare funding, recruitment and retention of healthcare staff, changes to federal programs and cultural issues. This paper also discusses the Hispanic community which faces similar barriers to healthcare. This paper explores the various strategies to address the healthcare issues of Native Americans developed by the Indian Health Design Team.

From the Paper
"Hispanics face similar barriers to healthcare, as do Native Americans. These are the lack of providers, which are close in proximity to the patient. Many Hispanics live in rural areas, which are far from healthcare providers. This problem does not only affect those in rural areas, but urban areas as well, another area which is heavily populated by Hispanics. Patients in this area may still have to travel quite a distance for healthcare, the choice of which may be limited due to type of coverage they have and they may not have adequate means of transportation. Finally, a healthcare provider who is closer may not be accepted due to differences in nationality."

Tags:health, insurance, funding, medical, hispanic, federal, program, indian, health, design, team, minority, healthcare, staff

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This paper discusses the opportunities related to the market entrance of Patriot Health Care, Inc. into the Canadian healthcare market. The paper reveals that while the Canadian healthcare industry is state subsidized, it is actually serviced primarily through the use of private carriers. The paper explains that this model provides for significant opportunity for a United States based healthcare competitor to enter and be successful in the Canadian healthcare market.

From the Paper
"This document discusses the opportunities related to the market entrance of Patriot Health Care, Inc. into the Canadian healthcare market. While the Canadian healthcare industry is state subsidized it is actually serviced primarily through the use of private carriers. This model provides for significant opportunity for a United States based healthcare competitor to enter and be successful in the Canadian healthcare market."

Tags:business, patriot, healthcare

Abstract
This paper discusses healthcare budgeting process as it impacts the economics of the industry relevant to the government rules and regulations that define the overall process. Of particular importance are the Medicaid and Medicare programs and how recent changes in policies and the regulatory environment have impacted the healthcare industry. Overall, the regulatory environment of the Medicare and Medicaid government programs has made healthcare budgeting and economics a much more problematic endeavor.

From the Paper
"While most administration officials view the economics of healthcare budgeting to be nothing more than a specialized version of the normal business budgeting process, in the healthcare industry, this viewpoint can be problematic. The core activities of the healthcare budgeting process are fairly straightforward and can be largely automated through specialized industry software. But the economic impact on the wider community that this process engenders is an extremely important consideration because the budgeting process determines pricing for services, taking into consideration insurance and government restrictions, and this process impacts affordability. Within this process are such line items as staffing requirements, workload activities, as well as a host of variables."

Tags:healthcare, economics, budgeting

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This paper deals with the responsibility the employer has in providing healthcare benefits to its employees. It reviews healthcare systems and recommends how the employer can maximize healthcare benefits for employees. Four different plans are reviewed and discussed. The results will possibly lower the employers healthcare cost for employees.

From the Paper
"Healthcare and all of the fractured issues included in it is one of the most explosive topics in our society today, both politically and consumer wise. Horror stories are continually told about, among other things, the costs of insurance, the inability to receive care, racial and ethnic disparity, and a host of other intervening variables and conditions. Sometime in the past several years America's healthcare system has managed to avoid the checks and balances of the institutional system and plunge into a state of national crises. Economic and business driven healthcare, wherein medical practitioners are seemingly more interested in stock options and bottom line profits than in their patients, is a blight on society as a whole as well as a failing grade for the government whose obligation it is to preserve and protect the country's citizenry. As such that ..."

Tags:healthcare, employers, benefits

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This paper discusses the fluid nature of law and most legal systems and then relates this characteristic back to healthcare. Various aspects of healthcare such as palliative care and healthcare's ethical framework are examined in light of the nuances of an inexact legal framework. This paper concludes that the healthcare industry cannot and should not function off the interpretive method that the legal system does.

From the Paper
"The nature of law has been a hotly contested subject ever since Hammurabi first had his code carved in stone circa 1775 B.C. Since then, law has been subjected to myriad interpretive analysis, written, rewritten and canonized in various ways: the common law of England, precedent or case law in America developing out of England's common law heritage and even religious law as of Islamic law commonly called Shari'ah. The only common dialectical thread through all these historical bodies of law and legal systems, both current and past, is that law is not an exact science. "

Tags:healthcare, legal, palliative

Abstract
This paper discusses the nature of the healthcare system in the United States in 15 to 20 years and what it will resemble. The paper's hypothesis is that the three current trends in payment will drive the industry towards a consolidation of all three within the structure of a centralized healthcare system. Furthermore, the centralized healthcare system will come about because the current system is privileging only those who can pay and leaving the rest effectively uncared for. Finally, the paper discusses how technology will express a great influence on the pervasiveness of this centralized healthcare system.

From the Paper
"The ebb and flow in the healthcare industry regarding payment systems and arrangements for practicing physicians will be especially pronounced in the next twenty years. With the constant rise in healthcare costs, the increased reliance on managed care systems and ever improving technology, the payment strategies used by physicians will become an important component of the business aspect of healthcare: "Insurance carriers are introducing an unending stream of new caps and conditions... Hospitals are undergoing a major restructuring... doctor groups are forming, breaking up, reforming and restructuring...to meet...demands of insurers..."(Galbick, 1996, para.1). This flux in the industry will intensify and will have a pervasive impact on the healthcare industry in terms of payment strategies and systems resulting in a health care system that coalesce around one of the following payment systems but, in all cases, will become heavily subsidized by the federal government."

Tags:healthcare, industry, managed