...INTRODUCTION Recognized as the most diverse health care company in the United States; leader in providing innovative health benefits and services worldwide to help people live healthier lives. UnitedHealth Group (UNH) serves the markets two ways: for health benefits through UnitedHealthcare, which was created in 1977 and is the largest health care provider in the United States; and through Optum, the growing markets for health services. UNH stands firmly on its’ mission to completely commit to the evolving needs of health care by continuously enhancing the health system through their cutting edge approaches, products and services. With their core capabilities in clinical care resources, information and technology UNH builds a stronger, higher quality health system that is sustainable for the long term. (UnitedHealth Group) STREGNTHS UnitedHealth Group named ‘World’s Most Admired Company in the Insurance and Managed Care’ sector, was ranked No. 22 in 2012 (ranked No. 17 in 2013) by Fortune’s 2012 “World’s Most Admired Companies” list. With their highly adaptable business model and rated No. 1 in innovation, they are operating in all 50 states and 20 countries worldwide and servicing more than 85 million individuals overall (Fortune 500, 2013). UNH delivers a unique influence in creating a modern health care system, by providing clinical insight to optimize care resource, advanced data and information, and enabling technology. Having UNH offering a more affordable, simpler...
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...Health Care Experiences A Health Care Questionnaire Lori Sorrells HCS/212 Professor McKinnon October 16, 2012 Health Care Experiences Health care resources are very important in today’s society. Everyone will need health services at some point in their lives. In today’s society health care is becoming a more common need for individuals. More people develop chronic diseases and diabetes than they did a decade ago. Through vast resources such as the internet, phone books, and family or friend recommendations, finding the health care you’re searching can be as easy as one-two-three. Know what your need, why you need it, and exactly how you would prefer to find it. My experiences as a health care consumer affect both me and the health care industry. As consumers we expect our health care services to be quick and easy. Through health care research making decisions and finding information about health care services are easier than ever before. Health care resources include any information used in providing health care services. Locating health care resources is easy in today’s society. The use of the internet today is widespread. Locating health care services has been easier than ever before using the internet. A consumer, such as myself, could simply type in local health care providers and/or a specific type of health care services and the search engine will pull up numerous practices in the area. The more difficult task is finding health care providers that take the...
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...Abstract This paper address the challenges to determine what parts of the Affordable Care Act can apply to Puerto Rico and the impacting the Medicare, Medicare patient services and employees. Most of the people in the island think that the Affordable Care Act is giving more security and help to address the existing disparities in the healthcare system. With the new Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act, the insurance companies can no longer drop the coverage if one becomes sick, bill individual into bankruptcy because of an annual or lifetime limit, and they will not be able to discriminate against anyone with a pre existing condition. Most of the Medicare and Medicaid community suffers do to the imbalance in our healthcare system this situation affects the quality of care and places a financial strain on the government, individuals and families, employers and employees, and public and private providers. Most of the Medicare beneficiaries have to enroll in the MA program to help them to succeed and receive the adequate treatments without MA to help the disadvantaged seniors on the island, Puerto Rico's elderly citizens will be forced to turn to Mi Salud in larger numbers. Although Mi Salud is scheduled to receive an average of $690 million annually during the next five years, the widening deficit in MA funding is likely to create a net negative impact on federal funding for healthcare in Puerto Rico. The Health care Policies and Issues Ethical concerns and issues ...
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...Professor: Daniel Goldsmith, DBA Email: Daniel.Goldsmith@strayer.edu Phone: 202-744-3467 COURSE DESCRIPTION This course provides an introduction and overview of government contracting and its unique nature, demonstrating the differences between commercial and government contracting, with a concentration on the federal system. Based on online resources, students cover the organization of the Federal Acquisition Regulation and how to interpret relevant subject coverage. Current reforms in the acquisition field will be incorporated into the course and emerging controversies will be highlighted to provide students with an up-to-date view of the profession. INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS Required Resources Compton, P. B. (2010). Federal acquisition: Key issues and guidance. Vienna, VA: Management Concepts, Inc. Feldman, S. W., & Keyes, W. N. (2011). Government contracts in a nutshell (5th ed.). St. Paul, MN: Thomson Reuters. Supplemental Resources Brown, T. L., Potoski, M., & Van Slyke, D. M. (2009). The challenge of contracting for large complex projects: A case study of the coast guard’s Deepwater program. IBM Center for the Business of Government. Retrieved from http://www.businessofgovernment.org/sites/default/files/deepwater_magazine_0.pdf Rendon, R. G. Critical success factors in government contract management. Retrieved from http://www.ippa.org/IPPC4/Proceedings/19Others/Paper19-2.pdf Schwartz, M. (2009). Defense Acquisitions: How DOD Acquires Weapon...
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...North C arolin a Polic y Wa t c h Cru cial Co nv ersa tion The Trans-Pa cific Partnership: Worse than NAFTA? Septemb er 2013 Lori Walla ch Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch Outcomes of 20 Ye ars of NAFTA, WTO, FTAs… Crushing of Americ an Middle Class: more than 5 million US manufa cturing jobs (1 out of 4) & 60,000 US manufa cturing fa cilities gone. Millions of service sector jobs offshored: c all centers, computer, programming, engineering, a cc ounting. Wage “arbitrage” in a ra ce- to-the- bottom. U.S. re al median wages at ‘70s levels. Income inequality at Robb er-Baron-era levels. When manufa cturing, good jobs go tax bases shrink – and schools, public services, infrastructure cut, and construction sector unemployment soars. Floods of unsafe imported food, products. Financial deregulation, instability and repe ated financial crises. He alth, labor, land use, other public interest laws around world atta cked in foreign tribunals. Some dump ed. Initiatives chilled. Billions extra cted from taxpayers and paid to corporations for violations of new “rights.” Drug prices up. In poor nations, de adly cut in a cce ss to meds. Rich nation higher prices slam poor consumers, govt budg ets as Big PhRMA profits soar. U.S. loses 170,000 family farms. In ‘12, volume of U.S. food exports only 1% higher than ’95 (when NAFTA-WTO started). Imports of food now 97% above ‘95 level. Livelihoods of tens of millions of pe asant farmers destroyed, mass migrations...
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