...Jerrica Miller English III 2/19/2016 “Why Healthcare Should Be Free?” As Marcy Jackson walked to the counter of the Healthcare information desk, she took a deep breathe. Marcy had been to the healthcare desk once before about 4 months ago and she was denied access because she was overweight. So Marcy thought if she lost the 13 pounds within this month, she could go back and reapply. Walking up to the desk, she was accompanied by her daughter, who was 6 –years –old, Anna Jackson. The receptionist asked her, “How can I help you today?” She replied, “I am here to re-apply for healthcare.” She received the forms, filled them out and was told to wait for a phone call in a couple of days. A few days went by and Marcy was away at work and missed the call from the Healthcare organization, but they left her a message on the answering machine. The message said, “Hi, sorry that you missed our call. I am a representative from the healthcare organization that you applied to a few days ago. I am so sorry that because of your weight, you have been denied access for affordable healthcare. If you have any questions you can contact us at your local healthcare location. Have a nice day.” Marcy fell to her knees she could not believe what she had just heard. She tried so hard to lose the weight and just when she thought it was enough, she failed again. Marcy worked two jobs just to keep things in order and being able to afford healthcare for her and her daughter, just was not enough. And this should...
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...The United States faces a long battle to repair its economy. Issues like unemployment, the federal budget deficit, immigration, gun control, etc, seem to create never ending discussions without any resolution. The healthcare system is one of the many issues that have been affected by the economic crisis and according to president Barrack Obama, reform is a must. Besides all economic factors affecting the healthcare system, the system has been blamed for inefficiency, excessive administrative expenses, inappropriate waste, and fraud and abuse. Many Americans today are having trouble keeping up with the continue rise of healthcare costs and many firms cannot afford to provide coverage to their employees. Although the government is working on a reform for the healthcare system, many questions are still pending to be answered. One question that has raised polemic discussions around the country is: should the U.S. government provide healthcare to all citizens? While many feel there should be a simple yes or no to this questions, many others realize that we do have to consider any potential ethical, moral or legal issues that can cause collateral damage to our economy and also the healthcare system. President Obama has been focusing on a reform for the healthcare system prior to his first election and to give a little overview of his reform, according to The White House (2013), see table below: Overview of Health Reform “It makes insurance more affordable by providing the largest...
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...In your opinion, should healthcare be free? No, I don’t think healthcare should be free. Well I take that back, I do think basic healthcare should be free. I think we should all be covered under something like Medicaid for the basics like routine exams, dental, vision, etc. I think beyond that you should have to purchase a plan either through your employer or directly from the government. I don’t think our taxes should pay for extended care such as specialists or elective surgeries but I don’t do think basic care is a right we should all have as an American. If we are the richest country in the world, surely we can afford to do that. I think the Affordable Care Act is a step in the right direction but we need to go further. I think programs like Medicare should still exist as it does today and you would transition into that at age 65. I personally find it very difficult to stomach the fact that I pay taxes for someone who is probably very capable of getting a job to have free healthcare (I also have issues with Welfare and Food Stamps – but that’s for another day). There are circumstances in which it’s warranted, like disability or even in between jobs but not so you can stay home and do nothing. It’s not fair, so I believe we should all benefit. Now in this world, if you do not have a job, you can get free extended care, however, it would be highly regulated. Meaning, you can’t just be on this program and not doing anything. There would be monthly check-ins to...
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...Should Health Care Be Free? It is clear that health care is imperative to achieve, the issue raises when we have to decide if whether it should be free or not. According to Ted Kennedy during his speech given on Memphis, Tennessee on December 1978 pointed out that “Health Care is a Right, not a privilege” (abcnew.com, Dec). It should not be a commodity for wealthy people; it should be a basic right for all individuals, no matter age, race, ethnicity, or gender. After Kennedy’s accident in an airplane crash and having all the care possible given to a privilege person, as he was, he realized that medical care must be provided to all Americans and it should not be a limitation for those who cannot afford it. Currently in the United States, healthcare is considered a privilege, not a basic right. The Center for Economic and Social Rights states that: “Although the United States offers coverage for the very poorest Americans through Medicaid, this fails to reach millions of Americans who do not qualify as the poorest but still have far too little money to afford purchasing their own health insurance (Pies, 2011). Healthcare should be considered a civil right where Americans with less economic possibilities can still be treated by a doctor. In this case, we refer to the insured and uninsured citizens. Although lack of health insurance does not entirely prevent a patient from receiving healthcare services, it certainly makes it extremely difficult (Trotochaud, 2006). Ethically...
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...In regard to free-government-smartphones, and especially the people who utilize them, an exceedingly significant plus monumentally relevant point deserves consideration. Meaning, a myriad of incorrect or automated assumptions can easily occur among those who deliberately or even accidentally choose to remain uninformed. Particularly, needy people and wealthy ones alike, must actually "endeavor" to remain cognizant of mutual needs, including human desire for self-satisfaction, plus the privilege and pursuit of increased familial happiness. In American society, individuals from various walks of life can still learn from one another. In actuality, there is minimal reason why less financially fortunate United States citizens should forfeit the chance to place themselves in forward-moving...
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...Business and Canadian Government Policy; Initiating A New Policy Introduction This paper looks into a proposal on the introduction of a universal pharmaceutical policy or pharmacare in Canada. Canada is a country that has a global reputation of offering a successful healthcare to its populations. The Canadians enjoys free healthcare facilities because when they get sick they just need to visit the hospital or their doctors even when they do not have money. The government funds for the universal health policy by use of government revenues. The government gets the funds to pay the policies through taxation of Canadians who are well-off. Most Canadians especially the ordinary Canadians have benefited from the universal healthcare as it has increased their accessibility to health services (Fierlbeck, 2011). Although most Canadians and stakeholders consider the Canadian healthcare policy as universal, it is not comprehensive. A comprehensive healthcare policy should offer a complete healthcare package for citizens. The current healthcare policy in Canada does not substantially offer a comprehensive healthcare policy. This is because various core areas of healthcare are not covered with the current policy on healthcare. The core areas that have been left out by the policy include dental care, prescription drugs, and prescription glasses. The prescription drugs are more important as it remains hard for a person to recover without drugs. Drugs are very expensive to buy and they prices...
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...Luo and Wang first used the model to measure areas of physician shortage (Luo & Wang, 2003). First, the models use physician location to identify all the population that is within a threshold distance of the physicians, and from this, a population-to-physician ratio is computed. In the second step, the models use each population location and identify all physician locations that fall within the threshold distance and sums up the ratio from step one. The summed ratio represents the accessibility index for each population locations to healthcare. The model was later modified to account for distance decay by incorporating kernel density with a Gaussian function (see: Wang & Luo, 2005; Luo & Whippo, 2012; McGrail, 2012). The 2SFCA model has successfully been used in measuring accessibility to healthcare in various studies. Luo and Wang (2003) used the floating catchment area to assess differences in spatial accessibility to primary care in Chicago. They used a range of travel times in the model to analyze the sensitivity of the result and found that areas closer to the city center had better accessibility than other areas. Luo and Whippo (2012) examined spatial accessibility to physicians in the ten-county region in Northern Illinois. Their work varied the catchment size and found a greater detail in spatial variability compared to the fixed catchment sizes. McGrail and Humphrey (2009) studied spatial accessibility...
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...have less medical expenses or that people treasure good health more than money. The goal of a healthy lifestyle is to have a long life and remain disease or cancer free. The United States of America is known as a developed nation and people would assume that it provides its citizens with equal and an adequate medical care. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “America spent more on health care per capita ($8,608) and more on health care as a percentage of its GDP (17.2%), than any other nation in 2011.” This means that the US puts a lot of emphasis on their healthcare compared to any other country in the world. But the reality is the Commonwealth Fund, a private American foundation, ranked the United States of America last in the quality of healthcare compared to the world in 2014. Also, America is ranked as one of the most expensive healthcare providers in the world. The US was compared to countries like Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden and Switzerland. The rankings prove that the American healthcare system is indeed facing many issues. Some of the major issues are accessibility of healthcare to all, lack of consolidation within the industry, deficiency in technology, lack of data availability and lastly, over dependence on medications by healthcare professionals such as doctors. The issue highlighted in this research is that the doctors are not focusing on promoting and maintaining a healthy lifestyle to prevent...
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...December 18, 2013 The National Health Service (NHS) of Great Britain was established in 1948 to create a national health system that would serve all citizens regardless of ability to pay. There were three main objectives established that were critical to the success of the program: (1) equal access to care, (2) provision of preventative and curative care, and (3) services provided at no cost to the patients (Perlman & Fried, 2012). Today, the NHS is still alive and well and is meeting the expectations of the original objectives set forth at its inception. Currently, the NHS is credited as being the single largest publically funded health care system in the world. In 2010, the Commonwealth Fund declared that “in comparison with the healthcare systems of six other countries (Australia, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand and USA) the NHS was the second most impressive overall. The NHS was rated as the best system in terms of efficiency, effective care and cost-related problems. It was also ranked second for patient equality and safety” (Perlman & Fried, 2012). This paper will address the author’s impression of the NHS based on research and information collected and reviewed as well as discusses the perceived strengths and weaknesses of the program. As stated previously, the NHS is the world’s largest publically funded health care system. It employs approximately 1.7 million people of which include 40,000 general practitioners, over 370,000 nurses and 105,000...
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...1960’s the birth control pill was put on shelves and one in every four women were taking in. As the years continued many other aspects would change as well. The Planned Parenthood organization are in place to help families, women, men, adolescent, and children with education, sexual health questions, and even deal with other pregnancy services. The services will come to many that cannot afford proper health care to little or no cost at all. The Planned Parenthood organization’s mission statement is as follows: “A Reason for being”. The mission statement is in place to show individuals of any race, gender, or ethnicity that help is available to them, and each of the individuals that come into the organization all over the world will be free from any harassment or judgment. Respect and values plays an important role within the Planned Parenthood organizations, and each of the qualified employees or volunteers plan to keep it that way. Long term goals that the Planned Parenthood organization would like to implement would be to continue to provide those that are unable to pay for health related services, the services themselves. Without each person have the burden of a costly exam. Each individual will provide proof of incomes and eligibility can be established. Another long term goal the organization has in place is to...
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...finance model. There are many calls to move towards contemporary American free insurance and service market system6. It is argued that if there is no competition, the consumer will continue to be poorly served and second-class treatment will remain. However, many responses listed out the sophisticated problems that have arisen from the American healthcare system. Patient Choice One of the important justifications of the system in the US is greater patient choice. Under the concept of “money following the patient”, patients would not be constrained by cost considerations when choosing services between private sector providers and public sector providers6. Americans are free in the selection of doctors, standards of services as well as service providers. From the experience of the US, voluntary private insurance permits doctors to offer more expensive services beyond the basic provision. Patients are required to pay out-of-pocket for any extra charges. This kind of rigid payment system actually constrains rather than expands freedom of choice of patients6. Patient choice is expensive and thus is more likely to be restricted, especially when there is cost containment. It is the situation in the US that one of the main functions of HMOs was to introduce a gate-keeping role for GPs and limit the wide choices of specialists inherent in the traditional insurance mechanism11. Efficiency With free choice and free market, people have the incentive for enjoying maximum services and claiming...
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...Introduction Healthcare access across the world is vastly different between countries. The citizens of those countries also have varying opinions of those healthcare systems. Some of these countries utilize private healthcare systems. That is where the citizen is responsible for their healthcare. Some countries use government run systems. In some countries, it is up to the citizen to decide which route they want to choose. It is important for people to know what is available to them and to understand what each of the systems mean. After interviewing an individual who lived in of Canada for many years, it is easy to see the differences between their healthcare model and the United States’ model. How would you rate the healthcare quality on a scale from 1-10? The individual interviewed stated that he would give the Canadian healthcare system an eight out of ten. This person stated that healthcare access had been very easily obtained for him. He also stated that he had no difficulty in scheduling appointments with primary care providers. Also, he had to have a knee surgery and getting that taken care of was not a stress at all. One of the other reasons he rated it so high is that it is free. That is something that is greatly different between Canada and the United States. Also, in comparison to hospitals in the United States, the hospitals in Canada are not as nice. With that in mind, he said it was worth it because it was free. I would give the American healthcare system...
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...IHP-504: Healthcare Policy and Financing Case study: To market or not to market Southern New Hampshire University The evaluated case study depicts a scenario wherein a recently established local nonprofit healthcare organization has been in operations for a little over a year. It was founded by a number of healthcare professionals (volunteers) including nurses and administrators who share a common mission, vision and goals. Their mission is to increase the community’s health by extending free preventative health services, such as regular check-ups and immunizations to the most financially vulnerable patient populations, hence their intentions are purely altruistic. The group of healthcare professional volunteers find that since the inception of their venture the results are supremely disappointing as “the current use of their services is only at an estimated 7% of original expectations” (SNHU, n.d., para. 3). Additionally, the no-charge rental space arrangement necessary to conduct the provider-patient physical interactions is limited to the total of three years’ time, and the arrangement is due to expire in less than two years. A new venue may need to be secured and it may not be rent-free (additional expenditures for future consideration). Both the current circumstances that leave a lot to be desired and the uncertain future appear to be increasingly discouraging in continuing this nonprofit venture. However, one of the important aspects that could have prevented...
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...about the Affordable Care Act and Indian Health Care Improvement Act, which extends current law and authorizes new programs and services within the Indian Health Service. This information is all well written and easily accessible for the general public, members of IHS, providers, and also those looking for a career opportunity in this specific field. This site also provides legal information such as eligibility and legislation for IHS, which covers 566 federally, recognized tribes in 35 different states. Overall this site is credible and well put together in order to aid the public in learning more about the health system for Native Americans and Alaska Native. NBC News. (2014). Broken promises: Reservations lack basic care. Healthcare on NBC News. Retrieved from http://www.nbcnews.com/id/31210909/ns/ health-health_care/t/broken-promises-reservations-lack-basic- care/#.VIOJX4d692c This news article provides a real life example of the Indian Health Service system failing to provide proper care to a five-year-old girl on the Crow Reservation in Montana. The article goes on to discuss the legality and weaknesses that are highly present in the IHS and also refers to the “don’t get sick after June” concept that is said when federal dollars for this service run out. Provided these real life examples and detail research...
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...Cell Awareness Walk Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Be mindful the following dates: 6. November 1st -Community Health Fare 7. November 13th – First Aid Certification Meeting 8. November 30th – First Aid Certification Meeting 9. December 5th – Blood Bank Rally 10. December 20th – Sickle Cell Awareness Walk Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! The Residents of Grey’s Creek Windsor Park Sub-Division The Residents of Grey’s Creek Windsor Park Sub-Division Phone: 901.555.3240 Fax: 901.555.3245 123 Main Street Memphis, TN 38134 www.windsorPark.com Phone: 901.555.3240 Fax: 901.555.3245 123 Main Street Memphis, TN 38134 www.windsorPark.com Windsor Park Healthcare Community Mailer Windsor Park Healthcare Community Mailer Our Community Our Community Health IsWealth Health IsWealth Health Is Wealth Health Is Wealth Community Demographics Cultural/Age Related Community Demographics Cultural/Age Related We reside in a very diverse community. We have veterans, baby boomers, empty nesters, young adults, and families of all ethnicities. Our community consist of all ethnicities, which makes our community’s diversity our greatest strength. We have identified patterns and themes as a result of the last annual health fair. According to the collected information 30% of our community are on prescription medications due to weight related illnesses. The Home Owner’s Association will be building a walking trail...
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