Abstract Not unpredictably, the increases in health care spending and the share of GDP dedicated to health care have raised up concerns about the negative influence of health care cost inflation on the U.S. economy. In an era of global economic markets, these concerns are reinforced by the status of the U.S. as a spending outlier among competing nations. The major concern is that rapid increases in health care spending can affect major economic indicators such per capita GDP
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Asthma An important issue that needs to be further researched in the health care field is Asthma. Asthma is a disease that affects the lungs; it causes wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness, and coughing (CDC, 2014). Asthma affects children and adults, but is deemed the most common long-term disease among children (CDC, 2014). It is a prevalent disease in the United States affecting 25.7 million people, including 7.0 million children (CDC, 2015). The reason it is important to continue further
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cumulatively referred to as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), offered 32 million, previously uninsured Americans, access to affordable health insurance (IOM, 2011). As Americans rejoiced and signed up for insurance, concern mounted as to whether the current healthcare system could tolerate the increased patient load. The nursing profession, in particular, was expected to face several obstacles in response to a transformed healthcare system (Trouble, 2014). According to an article in Health Affairs, addressing
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Rural Health Care By: Lurhonda Maxwell, Amanda Hacko, Laura Bottom, Patricia Delaughter, Tamara Boyd and Ta Rhonda Thomas HCS/440 Professor: Chuck Sigmund Due: September 12, 2011 Individuals and families of rural populations are confronted and struggling with the same
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University of Phoenix Material Week 5 Health Care Terms Worksheet Understanding health care terms is a prerequisite for both academic and professional success. This assignment is intended to ensure you understand some of the basic terms used in this course. Complete the worksheet according to the following guidelines: In the space provided, write each term’s definition. You must define the term in your own words. In the space provided after each term’s definition, use the term in a sentence
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think our healthcare system is broken, especially since Obamacare came into action. More and more people are unable to afford the high cost of the insurance plans, and if you do not get the coverage, you get a fine at the end of the year. The Affordable Care Act was supposed to have been created to help people, but with the high cost of plans and outrageous deductibles & being fined if you do not get coverage, it seems to have hurt people more than help them. Healthcare Crisis Countdown: [ALL
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training. 2. Nurses should achieve higher levels of education and training through an improved education system that promotes seamless academic progression. 3. Nurses should be full partners, with physicians and other health care professionals, in redesigning health care in the United States. 4. Effective workforce planning and policy making require better data collection and information infrastructure (IOM (Institute of Medicine), 2011). These recommendations are essential tools that today’s
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stepping forth and picking up the invite of steering the transforming of RN’s throughout nursing’s history and also in today’s altering of the health care system from as we know it. Because of the increasing educational levels that are being required to meet the completing and intriguing work of today’s highly technical environment and the complexes of care that have to be met so nurses can continue to be at the head and lead to affect the changes that are vital to nursing’s progress.
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role in health care and specifically in Medicaid expansion is as follows: Interest groups have been a part of the political scene since the beginning of the United States, but have greatly expanded since the 1960s. These groups can be business and industry, labor, professional, consumer, environmental, social, or religious. They play an important role in agenda setting, but their activity revolves around negative
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Discussion Questions #1 Health insurance has become an ongoing issue in America, in regards to accessibility, quality, and cost for Americans. Since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed in 2010 some of the issues have been alleviated. For example, a decrease in the amount of uninsured Americans. The percentage of uninsured Americans has fallen from 16% to 11%, concluding that the 10 million Americans who had no insurance prior to 2013 are now insured. A primary goal of the ACA was to reduce
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