Decision makers will need to determine how to best utilize nurses, technicians, and other professionals to close the gap in providing services to patients. Nurses require less time to train, are less expensive to train, cost less to employ, and can increase the efficiency and productivity of physicians who provide care to patients. The increase in the use of health care services as well as the increase in the number of venues where health care is provided has also increased the job opportunities for nurses and other members of the healthcare workforce. The demand for primary care services has stimulated the training of nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and certified nurse
The author of “ColoradoCare: [sci] Universal healthcare plan has democrats divided” is Josiah Hesse on Friday, May 20, 2016. The article “ColoradoCare” [sci] is slanted towards the supporting side of universal healthcare. The author only mentions democrats by name and hardly says anything about the republicans. However, you can also tell that the article is bias in the sense that he only talks about all of the politicians who are against the universal healthcare.
Discuss the pros and cons of healthcare costs being passed on to employees from the employers. The costs in healthcare have been parasitizing to a major extent on the family budget for almost a decade. So much so that it has impacted their capacity to afford day to day necessities in life. The employees have huge debts on their credit card which makes them decrease their retirement and other savings so as to pay for the debts in healthcare (“Rising…”2015).
What do you see as the pros and cons of a unionized environment in a health care facility? Working for a union in any job runs its pros and cons but in healthcare, it does seem to run a higher risk. For one, if as a union worker you do decide to strike because of working conditions or pay then, you have the risk of abandoning patients you have built a relationship with and leaving them with unsatisfactory care over a situation they have no control over. This is not saying that the strike will harm the patients, but it does run the risk of upsetting them.
As the nation readies itself to make the transition from an Obama to Trump administration, Healthcare reform is at the top of the political agenda. Historically, healthcare reform proposals have been passionately debated with partisan politics, sometimes complicating or obfuscating attempts to reform. For example, in 1965, despite continued vocal opposition from the American Medical Association (AMA) and conservative Republicans, legislation establishing Medicare and Medicaid programs were signed into law under President Lyndon B. Johnson (Taylor, 2014). Most recently, of the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) was adopted and subsequently implemented only after partisan divisiveness and bitter congressional fights. Despite its’ rocky history, health
Kendra and Elizabeth, You both make great points on the reasons why health care reform is so difficult within the United States. The focus of health care reform is place on developing universal coverage and a wider array of services. But the question remains on how this is accomplished while avoiding high taxes and skyrocketing deficits. The key issue is mainly centered on finances.
Discussion 5- Advocacy According to recent data, the baby boom generation will have all retired by 2030, (AARP), which is only 15 years from now. The population in this generation will include 77 million more 65 and older individuals, not including the 54 million already in retirement and receiving Social Security and Medicare benefits. Please note that many seniors also receive some form of federal benefits such as military pensions, survivor’s benefits, annuities, investments income or an awarded settlement (Quad Agno, 14). Unfortunately, in our society driven many times by greed, this has placed our seniors in vulnerable positions, particularly when health and cognitive functions have declined; a slight disadvantage of becoming older (Quadagno,
Between 2010 and 2050, the United States population ages 65 and older will nearly double, the population ages 80 and older will nearly triple, and the number of nonagenarians and centenarians—people in their 90s and 100s—will quadruple. (KFF, 2015) Trustees of Medicaid are forecasting that in 2024, Medicaid will start running out of funding. Although there is little evidence in the trustee’s projections it is still something that needs to be looked as more and more people are getting older and are needing benefits vs a number of people putting in. Every day there are 10,000 people turning 65 or older.
Despite of high expenses, superior medical technology, and many failed reform attempts, life expectancy in the U.S. has not increased, and infant mortality rates are fairly high. However, the U.S. healthcare system provides easy access to advanced medical technology and fewer waiting lines. The trillion dollars in yearly expenses only provide newer technology and save patients time, which is crucial in many situations, but these expenses do not ameliorate health among the population (Khan, Salman; Khan Academy). 44th U.S. President Barack Obama also acknowledged this issue. Along with 67th U.S. Secretary Hillary Clinton and former U.S. Senator John Edwards, he enforced a plan that allowed employees to keep their insurance if they changed jobs.
Health care has gone through a great evolution through the years. Before 1965, individuals older than 65 years old received inadequate healthcare and more than half of this population did not have coverage (Reinhard, 2012). Due to this predicament, the need to identify issues and implement health policy was imperative to improve health care. Consequently, Medicare was introduced with the goal to mitigate the health issues during the 1960’s and to improve the healthcare availability for individuals 65 years and older. Since then, Medicare has gone through numerous changes in order to incorporate other population needs.
Valerie Benavidez Professor Stewart ENC 1101 15 November 2015 The Healthcare Crisis in the States Today, many Americans struggle to obtain minimum, let alone full healthcare coverage. The cost of healthcare has sky rocketed over the years and has become less affordable for thousands of people across the U.S. The number of uninsured Americans is at an all-time high. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) makes perfect sense, economically, because it eases rising costs, has been more successful at previous attempts of reform, and provides a better healthcare system overall, compared to the initial medical care system we use today.
There is something wrong with the health care in America. People who live abroad in other countries understand there are issues with the United States health care system. According to “The Lancet”, the journal in the field of global health, “Fifteen percent of the population of America, or 37 million persons, have no health insurance or coverage (the highest in the industrialized world), one-third are children under 18.” So if they would fall ill, they could become bankrupt by paying out of pocket for medical attention. It would be better to change the American system to be more like the Japanese health care system.
Healthcare in the United States is in desperate need of reform. There are several rationales to further explain this proposition. As an illustration, the Declaration of Independence states our unalienable rights: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. In other words, every individual should be entitled to healthcare as it preserves life and promotes the general welfare. The federal government should, therefore, enact a program of universal health to better protect and serve all of its citizens.
Aging policy in America has caused on three domains of security for elders: economic security, health security, and functional security (Chernof, 2011). In the years to follow the crisis of the aging Americans, will need comprehensive intervention that will impact older Americans and what’s really in it for Elders. In devising a plan to ensure that the planners, government, private agencies, health care and service organizations are all devoted to providing and caring for the aging. Significant demographic changes in the history of the American people in this century.
Introduction I. We as a human being, we age and it is said that there will be more elderly people in the future. A. According to the graph of 2012 Population Estimates and National Projections from the Current Population Report by Jennifer M. Ortman, the population aged 65 and above is projected to be 83.7 million in 2050, almost double its estimated population of
