Essays on Cutler

There is no question that health care costs are an important subject that is being discussed on national scale. Americans have watched as health care costs have increased over the last decade. Some people are paying thousands of dollars more than they have in the past; this equates to nearly $3 trillion across the nation (Herman, 2014).There are a number of different key drivers that can have serious impacts on the overall health care system and the people who need it. Two of the key drivers that are contributing to high health care cost are, first and foremost ...

In her book Social Media and Public Relations: Eight New Practices for the PR Professional, Deirdre Breakenridge illustrates eight new skillset that public relations experts require to make brands and involve clients in a social world. She also illustrates how to combine technology and communications in a more efficient manner, how to cultivate insights into how clients perceive and construct their brand relationships. In this book we learn from her that through public relations we can be able to avert a crisis in communication within the organization and with the customers. We can also be able to eliminate communication ...

How does the reliability of health care services affect the quality of care you receive?

Reliability is a crucial aspect when delivering quality services. It can be defined as the ability of a system, device or process to achieve its prescribed function without failing. Notably, to achieve reliability, the system has to operate correctly in a particular environment. In the healthcare system, patients want to experience quality services that are reliable. Healthcare systems that fail to provide reliable services for a prolonged period contribute to numerous medical errors that result in 98,000 annual deaths in the U.S. (Cutler, 2014). It is important to note that although a healthcare system can achieve reliability without ...

How the Obamacare affects demand health insurance

Before the introduction of the Obamacare, demand for health insurance was not based on the demand and supply law but rather on the need for one to be protected in emergency cases. After the introduction of the Affordable Care ACT, the demand for health still is based on the want to be protected in emergencies, but the costs applied affects the demand for the health insurance (Cutler, 2015). The cost assistance introduced by the Affordable Care ACT insinuates that more people can get coverage of the health insurance. The increase of out-of-cost and demand has resulted in problems in ...

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The developed nations or the high-income countries in the 21st century offer national and universal health care based on their health policies and laws. However, the United States of America as the superpower, on the other hand, does not have any universal health care programs to the citizens. One primary reason that explains the scenario is that the U.S. has a more expensive system of health care than the other OECD countries. The per capita expenditure that the U.S uses on health care is the highest among the OECD countries. Considering the health care expenditure of the other developed ...

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ATTN: Director, Project Support Office I have reviewed the project summary and the following are my findings and recommendations in moving forward. We are already at the midpoint and we have already accumulated a cost overrun of $59,750. Assuming that we will maintain the same performance, we will incur a total overrun of $119,500 by the end of the project. With a planned budget of $471,000 and projected actual cost of 530,750, that would be 12.7% over the budget which is too large a variance to allow. For the work done so ...

Every individual is unique. This is not the most outstanding statement, but the one people know from their childhood. This is actually true; human beings have different characters, habits and reactions to the same events. A lot of personal qualities are determined in the early years of each individual. The character is formed in the childhood and a lot depends on the way the parents bring their son or daughter up. The environment, friends, relatives and even country, everything is essential to influence the future of adult man or woman. The surprising thing is that in spite of the ...

The implementation of ACA has increased accessibility of health care for many Americans. This has been critical. The ACA has adopted various implementations mechanisms. Firstly, the ACA ensured that the process of implementing the market reforms takes place swiftly. The health care act took the establishment of healthcare insurance to market and expanded the eligibility of Medicaid to adults with low incomes (Gardner, 2009, p. 419). Allina Health has welcomed the ACA. The implementation of the act has seen the management use the resources at their disposal to connect its patients. The essence of health reform is to strengthen ...

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PTP (Pretrial publicity) creates a set of problems that forensic social/cognitive/experimental psychologists are uniquely qualified to address. What are some of these problems? Hint: they are psychological (social/cognitive) and legal (procedural/substantive). Thus, begin by addressing: why we are concerned with PTP at all? What are the alleged effects and what does the social science research indicate regarding these effects (be specific in citing literature)? One of the problems, caused by Pre-Trial Publicity is the cognitive one. This means that juries get the information about the case under some circumstances, identified by the pre-trial mass media articles, which they ...

Abstract

The payer mix in healthcare financing currently comprises of three broad groups that include private insurance, government payers, and private payers. Private insurance covers 61% of the US population and contributes 49% in revenues. Government payers cover 31% of the population and contribute 55% of the revenues while the private payers account for 5% of population and contribute 6% of the revenues. The Affordable Care Act seeks to increase the insurance coverage in the United States. It would increase the contributions from government payer and reduce the default risk associated the private payers. This would also ensure that all ...

The critical care units of hospitals treat frequently treat patients by administering oxygen via the insertion of tubes into tracheostomies, the nose, or the mouth; nosocomial infections may result, leading to ventilator-associated pneumonia, or VAP (CDC.gov, 2015). The infection is not generally associated with non-sterile techniques during insertion, but rather from tube contamination. The nosocomial infection is most often diagnosed in intensive care departments and research has been directed toward identifying methods of oral care as a means of prevention. Comparisons of the effectiveness of sodium bicarbonate swabs with that of chlorhexidine swabs have been made and the hospital ...

If 10 different people were asked if they were happy, there is the possibility of getting a positive answer. The majority of people believe that a happy person encounters more positive life experiences than negative life experiences. This is also means that each individual has their own way of defining happiness (Khoddam 1). This paper will discuss two approaches to happiness by two different individuals to include McMahon and comments received from the Dalai Lama when interviewed by Dr. Howard Cutler. McMahon asks a very serious question at the very beginning of the article “Doesn’t every American want ...

I. WHAT IS HAPPINESS? II. WHAT THE DALAI LAMA AND D. GILBERT SAY ABOUT HAPPINESS

A. THE DALAI LAMA’S VIEW

1. Desires – are they good or bad? 2. Self-satisfaction as the moving force. 3. Greed as the obstacle to happiness. 4. Two ways to be happy. B. DANIEL GILBERT’S POSITION. 1. Parents happiness with children 2. Reasons of parents’ unhappiness. a. Overexpectation. b. Children as a natural way to feel happy. c. The only source of happiness. III. PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS OF THE TWO APPROACHES FROM THE POSITION OF INDUCTION AND DEDUCTION. IV. THE FIRST APPROACH IS MORE PROFOUND, AND THE SECOND APPROACH IS ...

Ventilator-associated pneumonia

Abstract The intensive care unit in most hospitals plays the role of providing care to patients dealing with life-threatening conditions. The technological and other set ups in these hospital units are vital in ensuring that these patients continue to receive the best regarding care while with the intentions of having them emerge with desirable outcomes. There are however challenges relating to the care that these patients receive since, in most cases, they are usually under mechanical ventilation. A patient under this condition faces the risk of developing ventilator-associated pneumonia if the ventilators are not handled with the required care. ...

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In late 1987, the Palestinian community in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip started a mass civil disturbance designed to overthrow the “occupying” Israeli forces in their territories. The rebellion, or the Intifada, was not called for or mobilized by the leadership of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) from its Tunis base; rather, the uprising is a mobilization of the general public as well as the groups and entities that were developed during the occupation of Israel in the area. The movement engaged a large number of the population, with a good number of them without ...