Future Direction of Health Care There are many challenges the health care system faces in the future. In moving forward in a strategic direction challenges they face are: access to health care, technology advancements, maintaining a skilled workforce, health care reform, legislation, and rising costs. These areas present challenges and there is much need for changes and reforms. In this paper I will address five areas with challenges in health care and strategies organizations can adapt to
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Healthcare always had problems. The cost of various treatment or an annual visit is getting to become expensive. The Affordable Care Act is a way to ensure everyone in receiving the health services they need no matter what. Mohandas Gandhi ( ) states that, “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” This is helping me and Get Covered America to fight for our dream of everyone getting insured. Once more people are insured, then everyone is able to live a healthier and happier life. I liked
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The Transformation of Nursing This world we live in is forever changing, everything for modern technology to healthcare. In wanting to improving health outcome and ensure that all has access to affordable healthcare the United States has transformed the healthcare system ("IOM REPORT," 2011). This transformation will impact one of the largest sectors of the healthcare workforce which are nurses. According to the IOM, the Future of Nursing report released on October 5th, 2010 its designed to “…ensure
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Affects of the Affordable Care Act on Taxpayers The Affordable Care Act, largely known as “ObamaCare” was signed into law by current president Barrack Obama in 2010. As of 2010, approximately 50 million Americans were uninsured, ObamaCare was signed into law to significantly reduce the number of people currently uninsured, as rising health care costs can lead to insurmountable debt in the case of a tragedy. The recessionary economy at the time of signing played a huge role in the overall acceptance
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Health Care Reform from an Economist Perspective Managerial Economics 2/28/2013 Introduction Today there are many Americans without health insurance. This is due to the lack of financial resources they have to pay for the insurance , perhaps due to the unemployment rate and also due to those (younger generation) who choose to opt out of paying for health insurance. Many Americans live day to day hoping they will not get sick. From the results of these rates, President Obama signed
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Health care and everything that it surrounds is continuously changing on a daily basis. There are many milestones that helped shape the health care industry. Some of these milestones of past and present are the substantial growth of uninsured Americans, the rising cost of health insurance and premiums, and The Health Care Reform Act. The financial aspect and technology has also changed healthcare. More money is being spent on technology which allows better treatment for patients. Advanced technology
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attempt to create a solution to health care, President Barrack Obama came up with a universal healthcare program called the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Obamacare was signed into law on March, 2010. It has been the most significant repair to the United States healthcare since Medicare and Medicaid passed in 1965. Affordable Care Act has its benefits and concerns such as the cost of Health Care, universal health coverage to everyone regardless
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The second is rule consequentialism which makes the rules or guidelines that would create happiness or pleasure that is derived from a decision or action (Morris, 2014, p. 29-32). In 2010, President Obama created the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) which was created to ensure that all Americans had healthcare insurance. Currently there are 44 million American’s without healthcare insurance. When creating the ACA President Obama had utilitarianism in mind because he put forth
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decades, our health care organization mainly focused on the cost and reimbursement aspects of health care. For this purpose, the Affordable Care Act was implemented on March 23, 2010, to expand health insurance coverage, improve the quality of health care and lower costs for everyone overall. As a result, this has helped our health care system change by not rewarding providers for the quantity of care but the quality of care. Quality health care can be described by receiving health care services that
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With a dawn of a new era in American healthcare history came the highly controversial Affordable Care Act. This act will create an estimated 16 million newly insured people by the end of 2014. However, there are public policies that need to be resolved. The public policy question that warrants further inquiry and needs to be addressed is section 3502 of PL111-148 does not include nurse practitioners. The public policy question is: Should the federal government mandate inclusion of nurse practitioners
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