Health Insurance Article Reviews Samples For Students

Berk, ML, Schur, CL, & Cantor, JC. (1995). Ability to obtain health care: recent estimates from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Access to Care Survey. Health Affairs 14(3): 139-146.

In Berk et al. (1995), the researchers investigate Americans' ability to access health care. The findings hypothesize that a more concrete definition of health care needs, including supplementary services like dental and mental health care, among others, is needed to find ways to improve access to needed services. The data set examined in this study included findings from the 1994 National Access of Care Survey, which included 75% ...

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is also known as the ObamaCare is a healthcare reform in the laws of the USA that improves and expands access to curbs spending and care via taxes and regulations. The major focus of this act is to provide more American citizens with easy access to affordable health insurance, regulating the health insurance sector, improving the quality of healthcare as well as health insurance, reducing the amount spent on health care in the United States. There are many different provisions in the Act that are used to address the different aspects of health care ...

Article Review

The Affordable Care Act brought so many changes since in the health industry. This Act led to regulations and reforms in the health care industry. The regulations and reforms stipulated under the Affordable Care Act are instrumental in influencing the relationship between the employers and employees. This Act involves the aspects to track and report on the requirements of the employees in the job place. The health insurance also relates to the shared responsibility tax and the revenue code. The Employer Shared Responsibility Tax involves the amount of hours worked by the employees working on non-fulltime basis. This Act ...

USA Health Care System

Over the years, the health care system of many nations has evolved. The changes, some good and some bad, can be attributed to the cultural view of health care, situational factors, employee insurance coverage of health care and other economic factors. The most important factor that has changed, especially in the ever-growing US health care market, has been the spiraling costs of such care. Employers have been under greater burden of providing for the ever-rising costs of medical care and are trying to reduce such burden through covering less, covering fewer persons, passing the increases onto employees, or simply ...

Healthcare Class: Comparison and Analysis of Two Critical Articles

Introduction
This paper reviews the two critical articles written on American healthcare system. The author, David Goldhill, has narrated his personal experience of American healthcare system in his article “How American Health Care Killed My Father” (Goldhill 2). Whereas the other article “Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills are Killing Us” written by Steven Brill is essentially a critique on the current US healthcare with much of its emphasis on current US President Obama’s healthcare policies recognized as ‘Obamacare’ (Brill 7).
The complexities of US health care system has raised countless debates and discussion in the American social ...

The article being reviewed is entitled ‘Health care reform: Revolution or evolution-What did we get from the affordable care act?’ It was written by Dr Len Saputo (2011). This article appeared in Sunday, 29th May, 2011 of the Natural news publication. Natural news forum features topics pertaining to various contemporary health issues.Dr Len Saputo (2011) is a certified internal medicine board practitioner. His practice is recognized as being focused on holistic, person centered care (Saputo, 2011).
Precisely, in the article referenced Dr Len Saputo (2011) expressed his sincere concerns regarding health care in America. To his dismay health care ...

In present economic scenario many people are underemployed even though the unemployment rate is low i.e. workers are less unemployed but still the underemployment rate is high. This underemployment is a social problem. It affects the job growth, poverty levels, business growth and career growth.
Unemployment rate is the fraction of the labor force that is out of work and looking for a job or expecting a recall from a layoff. But underemployment is the measure of employment and labor utilization in the economy i.e. the way the labor force is utilized in terms of skill , expertise and availability ...

Community

The California insurance marketplace has experienced a couple of events this year, in terms of the member registration and signing up for insurance covers. California has signed up more Asian-Americans and Asian immigrants than Latinos. The major method that these Asian communities are using to sign up for the Covered California insurance policy is through Certified Insurance agents rather than community groups. Fourteen percent of the eligible population in California consists of individuals from the Asian descent. Thirteen Percent of those signed up with Covered California is comprised of Asian individuals (Aliferis, 2014).
The news value evident in this ...

The websites reviewed have several things in common. Chief amongst them is how visually boring they are. For the most part they are all basically directories with simple click interfaces. Rather than utilizing the latest available web technology they seem to be stuck in an old mind-set when dial-up connections were the norm, and people were still accepting of information presented as they were in informational pamphlets handed out in the doctors office. Today however, we use the internet to give us a deeper depth to our content and these websites fail to do that. In effect they are all ...

Article Summation

Burns et al., (2014), in their research work, offer a critical appraisal on the uptake of health care services for childless low income adults who have just been enrolled into a public health insurance scheme. Eligibility for Medicaid (the U.S a governments’ insurance program) witnessed an expansion for eligible adults to include adults who fall below the federal poverty level (FPL) of 138%. However, the Supreme Court’s ruling which made this cap an option for states rather than an obligation meant that states could now extend the limit for persons to be covered under Medicaid Insurance. Among these ...

National health insurance by the current American regime is actually a good indication that the country has decided to avoid bad health. This may seem clear except for the fact that the insurance system is meant to reduce the expenses of a nation without necessarily making the person lose track of other expenses. This may be the case of America if the citizens did not have to have a rigid system of healthcare insurance. I must commend the idea of having a live insurance plan for the citizens but for the need to pay heavily for it. Currently, Americans tend to be the ...

Managed Competition

The article is about health reform in the United States. According to the author, one of the failures of the government of barrack Obama is the failure to reform the health care regardless of the fact that he had promised to make changes in the system. There are many people who die in the United States who should not have died. It is argued that most of the people who die are those who have no health insurance cover. The candidate had promised to come up with a method that would ensure that the entire citizen is covered. According to ...