Essays on Health Reform

Breaking Barriers: Towards High Quality, Effective and Safe Health Care

Breaking Barriers Towards High Quality, Effective and Safe Health Care With more than 3 million in numbers, nurses comprise the largest section of health care professionals in the US. They spend a huge portion of their time to deliver healthcare services which makes them a viable force in ensuring and safety of care. A careful examination of the nurses’ capacity to support the health reform is essential, especially with the passage of laws such as the Affordable Care Act, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, among others, which aim to improve the design, financing, and delivery of health services (Sochalski ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Introduction

An important indicator of the level of development of nations around the world is that of the existing policies towards healthcare, health promotion, wellness and prevention of outbreak of diseases . The preparedness of the government as well as historical records of success or failure to contain diseases and healthcare conditions help in providing an outlook on the overall healthcare condition in a nation . Sometimes it does happen that a major disease outbreak transforms into a national emergency which seeks to test present the true picture, especially when the healthcare policies and strategies are analyzed against that of a developed ...

The articles I selected are “A federalist approach to health reform: The worst way, except for all the others” and “Medicare and Medicaid spending variations are strongly linked within hospital regions but not at overall state level.” In their article, Aaron and Butler (2008) suggest that the support for state actions should be instituted as part of any model of expanding the health insurance coverage. Political issues, which have lasted for over ten years, have been an obstacle to the national efforts to expand coverage. The researchers argue that some states have expanded the coverage while others have reiterated ...

Abstract

This study analyzes the benefits and challenges of implementing an electronic medical system in both hospital and clinic environments. The overall research problem addressed in this study is determining how to effectively manage and communicate expectations associated with perceived benefits and challenges derived from a new install of an electronic medical record. The purpose of this study is to analyze perceptions associated with both the benefits and challenges derived from installing an electronic medical record system. This problem is relevant to many such as those who ...

Question 1

President Clinton made a strategic miscalculation in health reforms and at the end experienced disappointments. The republicans, moderate democrats, the American Medical Association and the Health Insurance Association of America backtracked from a policy that they had agreed to support (Clinton & Clinton, 1993). The health reform suggested for implementation of universal care coverage that failed terribly remained a dream that never came true. Clinton failed to consider the matters of interest groups as he made a blunder of becoming a partisan in the health reform. The president planned to empower his leadership by public opinions and tried to play the politics of health, which ...

Health care spending in USA has been reported to be high than most nations in the world. A greater percentage of the nation’s total income is spent on health care even though some people are not insured. It is the third largest public health care expenditure per capita due to the current high cost of medical care and utilization

The level of current health care expenditures

Health care costs have been increasing for many years. In 2008, health care expenditures surpassed $ 2.3 trillion which was more than the expenditure in 1990 that stood at $714 billion. In 1980 the nation spent $253 billion. The increase ...

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Connected Health: A Review Of Technologies And Strategies To Improve Patient Care With Telemedicine And Telehealth

- Joseph Kvedar1, - Molly Joel Coye2 and - Wendy Everett3,* + Author Affiliations - 1Joseph Kvedar is director of the Center for Connected Health at Partners HealthCare System, in Boston, Massachusetts. - 2Molly Joel Coye is chief innovation officer ...

Health care reform has long been an issue within the United States given the necessity for quality health care and insurance needed to survive in the modern world. However, while the intension of health care reform is for the benefit of all Americans, positions regarding such idea remains heavily contested even at the present time due to the beneficiaries of such reform and the impact it would have in the health care industry. On the one hand, there might be an increase on taxes to pay for those who do not have their own insurances and cause health care ...

Introduction

The quality of the health care system is meant to be improved by the introduction of the pay-for-performance (P4P) system. Likewise, P4P is designed for cost reductions in the health care system and for stabilizing the continuously increased health care services. Quality and cost optimization are, therefore, the main objectives of the P4P system. Nevertheless, other secondary benefits are targeted to be achieved through the implementation of this program. As such, the pay-for-performance system intends to change the behavior of the health care providers, influencing them to become more proactive and increasing their motivation for delivering improved qualitative services ...

Of the 14 states with state-based marketplace healthcare plans, eight have defined contributions options at present or being planned in the near future. These states include California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Rhode Island and Vermont. Other states have no defined contribution plans and these states include Hawaii, Idaho, Maryland, and New York.

A. STATES WITH DEFINED CONTRIBUTION

California California allows employers to offer defined contribution health plans to their employees. The use by employers of such type of plan requires compliance with ERISA and HIPAA guidelines. This means giving employees the freedom to choose their respective health insurance plans ...

Introduction to Healthcare Systems

Georgia State University Introduction Affordable Care Act or ACA is a remarkable opportunity for people who have HIV, as well as people who are presently receiving services over the Ryan White Program, to raise their approach to affordable and quality health care. The federal states, government, consumers, and insurers have a list of roles and responsibilities to facilitate the implementation of the ACA. Ryan White Program is a national program designed particularly for the treatment and care and for support programs for people who have HIV or AIDS in the United States. The Ryan White Program is controlled by the ...

Political issues in nursing

Introduction Healthcare reform is built on the existing health insurance system and aims at providing more people with the coverage of health insurance. It also seeks to establish protection of customers legally and educate them how to buy insurances. The legislation proposed on health reform is intended to change how health care gets delivered, organized and financed. However focus has been put on the responsibility of federal government; impact of loweringMedicare spending growth rate; provision to pay physicians plus other practitioners who are qualified and collection of information about procedures for end of life care. The policy shows ...

President Barack Obama signed the health reform bill on March 23, 2010, after one long year of debate. Obama wanted to make over the health system of America and transform Washington. Obama's Deal exposes the spectacular details of how a noble president went after the fight for health care, in spite of the admonitions given by his near and dear advisers. The deal also explains President Obama’s negotiations with the powerful special interests during the time of campaigns. Obama took the help of a skillful chief of his staff, Rahm Emanuel to pilot the process of health reform. Rahm helped ...

American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) is one of the licensed organizations for the specialty of Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) (Bernard, 2013). FNP are registered nurses that serve in the primary and specialty health care under a physician. Family Nurse Practitioners in AANP work with patients to diagnose illness, conduct exams, and prescribe medication (Paul, 2013). The nurses serve as the patient’s sole provider to run their private lives. An AANP-FNP will diagnose the illness of the patient, prescribe medication and therapy, conduct routine check-ups, perform disease prevention measures, perform minor surgery, and order patient laboratory tests.FNP addresses the ...

In 1996, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) became law. Its purpose was to update healthcare information records so that they were in keeping with the digitization practices of modern record keeping. Privacy was another issue. Many people involved in patient care, administration, and insurance had access to patient records. Before HIPAA, there were no federal regulations that addressed patient record privacy. Through HIPAA, Congress sought to protect health records because there were so many people who had access to them. Keeping records in a digital format would allow even more people access to health records, which is ...

U.S. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM COMPARED TO AUSTRALIAN The United States and the Australia follow very contrasting healthcare system. To highlight their best, and to learn from their shortcoming, it useful to compare and contrast the system. It will be useful to compare them according to their: accessibility; cost structure; quality; types and availability of the health care settings and services; healthcare quality and outcomes; and health care personnel. Like the rest of the world, United States has both private and public insurers in their health care system. What makes is unique is the dominant role played by ...

Question 1 = Australia Health System Efficient Health care system is an essential component of a country. The three levels of healthcare have its scope and benefits to the populace. The primary care is usually referred to as the first point of contact to the health professional. This is basically because of the scope of practice at this level. It is here we find the primary care physicians, family physicians or general practitioner. At this level of service, the patients do not required referral to access services unlike the secondary health care services that required their patient to have seen ...

Introduction: Health care is not just centered on treatment of diseases and maladies but also focused on providing proper care for children or persons who suffer from chronic or genetic health problems. At such times proper nursing and care is of vital importance.

PART 1:

(A). Cerebral Palsy is a disorder that affects a person’s ability to move or hold a position for extended periods of time. It is a disorder that a person is born with and in most cases it can be diagnosed within the first year of a child’s life. Occurrences: If one reviews the statistics of Cerebral Palsy, one would ...

Historical Background

Healthcare institutions in United States and France have been encountering challenges of unprecedented scope. The increase in the number of elderly in the two countries has not only threatened to increase the cost of managing the healthcare sector, but has also led to the inflation rate. In reference to the current trend in the two countries healthcare systems, researchers and other healthcare professionals have raised their fear that the ever-increasing technologies and expensive medical treatment are likely to wreck havoc on public spending priorities. The increase in healthcare spending in United States of America is also likely to interfere ...

The Obamacare Policy

This is a policy enacted by Barrack Obama in a bid to improve on the provision of health care services in the U.S. This paper details about the key elements of this program and touches a bit on the federal aspects that come with the enactment of this policy.

Elements of the Obamacare Policy and the Problem it is supposed to solve

The key element of the Obamacare Policy is that all Americans should purchase health care insurance plans approved by the government (Thompson, 2012). This provision allows for the transfer of tax-payer funded payments to help families that earn less than the federal poverty level to also purchase health care plans. This policy also ...

I. Introduction

A. “FREE birth control led to dramatically lower rates of abortions and teen births.” Has FOX news solved the birth control arguments? And they reported “One abortion could be prevented for every 79 to 137 women given a free contraceptive choice” according to study by Washington University in St. Louis. (Fox News, 2012 Oct.)

B. Public policy health issues are very serious issues for me. I have been researching the issue of birth control and women as a policy issue. In the U.S. birth control is a religious issue although in other countries it is a health issue. In the United ...

The Role of Women as a Wife and a Mother in the 1870s

Throughout history, men are considered the dominant actors in political, social, economic, and military events. Rarely could one see a woman’s name in historical events in these fields, even see literature depicting the successes of these women without first touching their not so grandiose history, which usually depicted many hardships as compared to the history of heroic men one hears about. One reason for this rare occurrence is the fact that women back in the early centuries did not possess much power, right, and liberty in a male dominated ...

Personal Perspective on Healthcare

United States of America is far ahead in almost all the fields of development. But if we talk about health care system the country lacks when compared with other developed countries. There are a number of health challenges that country is facing like high heath service cost and high uninsured population. 1. Health care system in America is not as per the image of nation. World Health Organization ranked America 37th in health performance and 72nd in health level. America’s health care services are considered one of most costly health services in the world. Country stood 42nd in ...

Health Care: U.S Health Care Timeline

Drugs and life-saving medical operations and procedures provide to everyone a better, longer, and healthier living. In America, the uninsured people have it rough when it comes to having affordable health care services. It has been about a century since America started debates on health care reforms and adoption to have everyone included in the program. A U.S health care timeline allows one to see and learn how the congress has handled the issue of America’s health care cover for its citizens over the decades. The year 1965 was the year that saw the signing in into law Medicare ...