Essays on Health Care Reform

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The paper on Comparative Politics by Maioni, A. (1997, pp. 411-431) makes a comparison between the evolution of the health care systems in two neighboring countries – Canada and the U.S.A. The crux of the argument and facts presented are based on the differences in the governance and political systems of the two countries. The paper tends to argue the facts around the post-depression period of the 1930s and the 1940s where both the countries faced different paths with regard to health care ...

Abstract

Numerous attempts to reform health care in the United States on the federal level have been made since the 1930s, but differences between each state represent a significant barrier to every previous federal health care reform. In 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law, but the current implementation and effects of the law are not the same across different states. The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast the effects of the health care reform in California and Florida, as well as the positions of the two states. It was found that the insurance ...

CHAPTER FOUR

Introduction This study will mainly focus on the ways that can be proposed so as to make the medical care provision of Russia be improved. The results that will be achieved from this research work will immensely contribute to the improved and much efficient health care provision in Russia.

Findings

Notably, the research methodology employed a mixture of both qualitative and quantitative analysis. We shall therefore look at the various prospects of Russian healthcare business in the global international healthcare market. Some of the most visible prospects and fragments that are the backbone of the healthcare sector include demographic issues, ...

Chapter 2

Literature review Russia has a very large number of hospitals, physicians, and health care workers as compared to any other country in the world. In spite of this, the medical care fraternity has failed to offer standard and acceptable health care services to its people. Russia has faced a health care system crisis for an extended period since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Significant transformation in the social, economic, and political environment has adversely affected the health care system (Britnell, 2015). The poor health care system in Russia has been precipitated by the lack of medical and technical ...

Introduction

Obama Care aims at extending health care services to all the U.S. citizens, but it impacts the economy positively and negatively. The Affordable Care Act requires that firms should compensate the medical insurance cover of their full-time employees. The specific aspects of the economy that are impacted by this provision include employment, supply, and demand, trickledown economics, GDP, fiscal policy, wage and health care inflation. While Obama care forces firms to hire employees on part time, it results in high demand for medical professionals. As large companies and high-income earners pay their insurance premiums, the trickledown economics becomes real. ...

The paper deals with comparing and contrasting health care reform data for the two states of Minnesota and Arkansas.

Lack of Health Insurance According to the last data recorded, Minnesota had 7 percent of its total population without any private health insurance, neither their employer nor the government has it for them (State Public Health Statistics, 2016). This percentage has decreased only by 0.9% in last one decade. For Arkansas, it is the state that ranks 35 when it comes to having health insurance for the state’s population. 13.9% Arkansas population lacks health insurance, privately, through the government or the employer (State Public Health Statistics, 2016). Lacking health insurance privately put people in having difficulties accessing the ...

The full implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) happened in 2014, introducing health insurance reforms and fresh health coverage options in Pennsylvania, California and other regions in the United States. Before the Affordable Care Act, under a waiver, California made several initiatives to expand the state’s Medicaid program – Medi-Cal – and made plans to restructure the health care delivery system within its safety net. Within the first two years after the ACA went into full effect, Medi-Cal, together with Covered California, which is the state’s health insurance Marketplace, facilitated the health coverage of millions of California residents. ...

In the USA the federal government has three branches of power: Executive – The President, Legislative- the Senate and Judicial – The Supreme Court. Members of Executive and Legislative branches are elected by people, while “members of the Judicial Branch are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate” (the Whitehouse). The Supreme Court is a real power in the USA and it is very important in the public policy arena. According to the Article 3 of the USA Constitution, “the judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the ...

Health insurance is a prepayment plan that provides cash or service indemnities in times of illness. Not everyone in U.S has equal access to health care services and insurance in the United States. Low health access, can increase the rate of death from preventable diseases and also leads to overall poor health outcomes. According to the latest population survey, there were 49.9 million uninsured people in the U.S. they account for ~16% of the country’s population. The rate of people who were uninsured, are higher among the Hispanics, followed by African American. A better understanding of the reason ...

The Patient’s Bill of Rights refers to a written law or declaration that contains a list of minimum guarantees to which every patient is entitled such as fair treatment, autonomy regarding medical decisions and confidentiality of patient information. Adopted in 1995, this Bill of Rights gives every American patient the right and freedom against discrimination based on medical condition, to consult a physician of their choosing, purchase medical care of their choice and to be given full disclosure of the healthcare insurance plan. With the enactment of the ACA in 2010, President Obama introduced more regulations that would ...

Discussion post- Healthcare Policy

The healthcare reform law is not entirely negative; it has some positive parts that are worth keeping. However, for equitable health care, the policy should be revised to make healthcare more affordable for majority. This can be done through the reintroduction of the public option in insurance to mitigate the high cost of private insurance providers. Accessible healthcare is important for all. As an elected representative, how would you "poll" your constituency as to whether they are in agreement/disagreement with health care reform law? As an elected representative, I would use an independent survey to gauge my constituent’s ...

Introduction

Undeniably, the cost of the Healthcare system in the United States has been increasing rapidly. Despite the introduction of Affordable Care Act (Obama Care) in 2010, the Americans continue to face a rising cost of medication. In fact, according to the report on 2015 healthcare provider outlook, the U.S health care expenditure is likely to increase to about 17.9 percent of GDP by 2018, making health be the largest sector in the U.S economy (Healthcare provider’s outlook United States, para 1). In this paper, we analyze some of the major facts on U.S healthcare system. Next, the paper ...

Public Policy: Health Care Policy Issues

Health care policies refer to the decision, actions and plans that are done in order to achieve health care goals within a society. There are several different explicit health policies in order to achieve different things as it defines an idea for the future of the people. This in turn helps establish targets and points of reference for other short term and medium term goals. These policies outline the urgencies and the likely roles of different groups and department in the government and the private sector. It also builds consensus and helps inform the people about how the government ...

The Patient and Protection Affordable Care Act dubbed ObamaCare is a health care reform in the US aimed at expanding and improving citizens’ access to healthcare and insurance. The act was signed into law by President on 23rd March 2010, but most provisions came into effect in 2014 (ObamaCare Facts, 2015). The specific objective of the law include things such as ; offering Americans more benefits and protections, allow for purchase of health insurance in a marketplace; expanding Medicare for the aged and disabled; improving Medicaid coverage in more states; increasing employer coverage; making it mandatory for people to have ...

Introduction

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) safeguards health care services in the United States. It embodies numerous statutory clauses that not only affect the health care system but also creates the necessary impetus for quality and precision in the sector (Schoenewolf, 2012). Before its enactment, the health care system in the United States was fraught with inconsistencies that were detrimental to the overall quest for quality health and wellness. Due to the broad nature of its provisions, the Act may take some time to be fully implemented (Schoenewolf, 2012). However, such a challenge should not deter the ...

The passing of the new law, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has provided new opportunities and direction for the troubled healthcare industry. In this instance, the healthcare industry has been plagued by the continuous increase in healthcare costs while at the same time, affected the quality of healthcare offered to individuals (Emanuel, 2015). The most vulnerable groups in the society comprised of the elderly and the poor, are the most affected by these adversities. Therefore, the PPACA has been seen as the right step in the right direction in the industry. In this instance, the provisions as ...

Introduction

Health care industry consumes more than ten percent of the GDP of many developed countries. The industry can be rated as one the largest and also fast growing industry in the world thus demanding more resources to be invested in it. This industry mainly deals with the provisions of services and at times goods to give patients preventive, curative, palliative and rehabilitative care. In terms of management and finance, health care industry may be divided into three subsectors namely: hospital activities, dental and medical practice activities, and other activities of human health (Home Health Care Services Industry report, 2011). ...

Introduction

Increased health costs in the recent past have forced US government to come up with health care reforms that will help to reduce its expenditures on health care provision. These reforms are contained in the health care reform bill that was enacted in 2010 by President Barack Obama in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Cohn, 2010). Health care reforms have numerous pros and cons to both the government and the citizens. The democrats support these reforms while the republicans oppose on different grounds. This paper discusses the benefits and costs that come with these health care reforms ...

Introduction

The cost of health care in US has been rising for the past several years. According to Medicare report (2010), government budget on expenditures in the last two years has tripled compared with the amount spent in 1990s. In 2008 the government spending on health care was about $2.3 trillion which represents 16.2 percent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP). According to this report, the percent is the highest among all the industrialized countries in the world. The annual rate of growth of government expenditure on health care is 4.4 percent and it is predicted to increase ...

Human Right or Commodity? The Ethics of Universal Health Care

The political storm raging over the Obama administration’s health care reform legislation sometimes obscures the fact that universal health care has been a bone of contention in Washington for decades. The American Medical Association (AMA) first endorsed the idea of health care for all Americans in 1921. In the early 1990s the AMA put forth a short-lived proposal for providing affordable insurance for all citizens but it fell victim to politics and traditional (some would say irrational) fears over the socializing of America’s health care system. Politics favored the push for health care reform this time around - the ...