Healthcare Reform

Massachusetts hasimplemented a individual mandate coupled with a mandatory basic health insurance package. They have also expanded state run health care programs for low income workers and retirees and implemented a health care exchange called The Commonwealth Connector. The thought is that by requiring individuals to either get health insurance or pay a fine that insurance companies would have larger risk pools to work with and could therefore drop premium prices. The Connector is aimed at helping those who are self employed or unemployed or otherwise ineligible for employer based insurance to pool together to get lower premiums. While the MA system has dramatically reduced the number of uninsured, health care costs have skyrocketed putting the state in a dire economic situation The state recently had to raise the sales tax to compensate for health care cost increases.

The Industrial Revolution had led to widespread poverty in urban areas. The revolutions of the late eighteenth century had whetted people's appetite for representative government.

The chain of command in its simplest definition is the line of authority and responsibility along which orders are passed within the nursing department, the hospital, and between different units. Nurses who ignore the chain of command may lose their jobs, and in some cases their licenses.This also applies to other personell.

It would depend on which country you are living. It will make very little difference to the poorest countries of the world.

Enrollment in managed care plans appeals to members because it can provide savings over traditional indemnity insurance plans, which typically serve the singular function of claims reimbursement.

i think is in 1914

It takes longer to pass laws that go against the will of the people. All the right people have to be bought off.

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It always takes a while to pass any new innovation due to the fact that roughly half the people and their representatives will be for the new idea, and roughly the other half will be against it.

For many reasons, I believe that people should pay for their own care BUT that it is to society's benefit if we have catastrophic care insurance so that people who fall seriously ill will not be bankrupted. There can be significant advantages to having health insurance and peace of mind should be one that is standard across the board. Unfortunately, that is not the way it is in the US. More than half of all bankruptcies are over medical bills and 75% of those folks have insurance, so it's clearly not doing its job. "Aldrich's situation is "asinine" but increasingly common, said Dr. Deborah Thorne of Ohio University. Thorne, co-author of a widely quoted 2005 study that found medical bills contributed to nearly half of the 1.5 million personal bankruptcies filed in the U.S. each year, said that ratio has likely worsened since the data was gathered. ... Like Aldrich, Thorne said, three-quarters of the individuals in the study who declared bankruptcy because of health problems were insured." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20201807/ Because we also have millions on government run plans (such as Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP) I think it is to the taxpayer, patient, and doctors' advantage to correct the numerous problems within those systems and transfer them to catastrophic care WITH one physical per year, one follow-up, and one ER visit (if needed) for reasonable co-pays. All of this to be provided for a reasonable premium cost that is sliding-fee scale based so that everyone can afford to be ensured. This may sound like it would cost more than now, but it should not because by not contributing towards unnecessary visits (paying for the sniffles), following other cost cutting measures outlined in the book, reducing the cost of prescription drugs (no "donut hole" nonsense either!) we could get better health care for no more than we spend now. This plan is outlined in Cassandra Nathan's new book: Save America, Save the World. You can read the basics of this plan, which includes how to fund it, at: http://www.booklocker.com/books/3068.html

The World Health Organization defines self-care as "activities individuals, families, and communities undertake with the intention of enhancing health, preventing disease, limiting illness, and restoring health. These activities are derived from knowledge and skills from the pool of both professional and lay experience. They are undertaken by lay people on their own behalf, either separately or in participative collaboration with professionals."

The main purpose of the health care reform is to help out the 50 million people on America who do not have health insurance and to help people who have health care conditions but are being refused coverage from insurance companies, or are being charged huge prices.

The votes are cast electronically. They don't really know the order votes are cast.

As nurses are probably the most underpaid professionals in industry today, he will not specifically target their salaries. However...many hospitals, in order to protect their bottom line, will target all healthcare salaries...much like they are starting to do now. Most of us don't have the luxury to be protected by unions. The same unions that block vote for democrats, thus Mr. Obama, instead of identifying the unions as the culprits in contributing to the high cost of health care by holding....for instance, GM "hostage" by making them pay for their "premium" health care coverage, he instead blamed the corporation (GM) for paying such high costs for said health care benefits.

Obama, McCain, Biden, Hilary and any other politician that pushes for health care reform will indirectly hurt nurses' and any other health care workers' salary as the CEO's have tunnel vision and only see salary cuts as the way to decrease the financial problems they face.

Many people argue that healthcare reform (if done right with a public option to be in competition with the insurance giants making them keep their prices down), will increase the number of Americans able to get health services since they will be more able to afford the lower premiums and out of pocket costs of care once reform is enacted. Today, many are going without health care because they can not afford the high costs of the insurance or the uninsured care.

If there is affordable healthcare, the number of patients increases because they have new coverage from a public option that they can afford, providers such as hospitals and doctors will have increased revenue from the increased demand for services, and will not have to lower staff or staff salaries.

A properly designed healthcare reform package should help to stabilize providers' cash flow, increase utilization and quality of health care, and improve staffing ratios and improve the overall health and wellness of the US people. The hospitals and providers are now struggling due to inappropriate denials of coverage of care by insurance companies. These administrative/red tape hoops and dances cost the providers significant administrative costs of appealing the coverage denials, filing and refiling claims, doing collections of accounts receivable from patients without the ability to pay, and causes a waste of money that could be being used to hire, train, and keep top nursing professionals.

Most nurses support healthcare reform as originally proposed by President Obama, with a public option.

The Biomedical Model. The biomedical model of medicine was developed in the 19th century as a response to the medical knowledge of that time. The knowledge being that man was a part of nature and therefore could be studied in the same way as nature, at a cellular level. The biomedical model was highly successful in identifying main causes of illness and death at that time, these were accidents and infections. The biomedical model suggests that man only got il from things which invaded the body or from accidental damage. Also the biomedical model suggests that man is either healthy or ill - there is no 'in between.' However, as the century progressed individuals no longer died from infections, society changed with industrialisation, living conditions improved, nutrition improved and new illnesses such as Coronary Heart Disease and cancer became the leading causes of mortality and morbidity. The biomedical model no longer was as effective due to the fact that other factors, social and psychological, played a part in illness. The biomedical model still stands today in identifying illnesses and diseases but not what causes them and what causes death.

Nothing, it's absolutely free.

Home health care is a cost-controlling strategy because it reduces the need for more expensive hospital stays and institutional care by providing medical services in a patient's home. This approach often leads to lower overall healthcare costs while improving patient outcomes and satisfaction. Additionally, home health care can help manage chronic conditions more effectively, potentially reducing emergency room visits and hospital readmissions. Overall, it offers a more efficient use of healthcare resources.

The hospitals in Columbia MO are owned by the University of Missouri Health care System (Columbia Regional and University of Missouri Medical Center).

Boone Hospital Center is under the auspices of BJC of St Louis MO.

According to a Google search, Franciscan is based in Tacoma , Washington , is part of a three hospital network owned by a Catholic outfit in Denver, Colorado.

Pneumonia-causing germs can become airborne and hence spread easily from person to person. While taking care of a patient recovering from pneumonia it is preferred to use a face mask so that there is minimum exposure to airborne droplets from the patient formed as a result of coughing or sneezing. Moreover, use of hand sanitizer is advised before and after visiting the patient as common surfaces e.g. table tops, door knobs and bed covers can be rich of body fluids from the patient.when <a href="https://www.healthunits.com/pneumonia/is-pneumonia-contagious/"> is pneumonia contagious </a> and how we take care of it and get away from it

I am not sure I understand what you are asking, but for me there is an ethical dilemma in the fact that anything not first tested on animals, is first tested on people.

Basically because they want to make money, and since people are familiar with their product, they can charge whatever they want, which they think they can get from insurance companies.

Fortunately, there is a generic version of the auto-injector which works a little differently, but is much, much cheaper. It is called the Adrenaclick, and it is a great alternative to using a syringe to inject epinephrine (which also works, but of course you have to be really careful).

There also seems to be something called the Medihaler-Epi which is an inhaler that delivers epinephrine as well, although I don't have any comparative pricing information on that. These are all things that you should talk about with your doctor if the EpiPen is too expensive for your family.

Since the question is not specific enough, I will give you two answers. PC in the healthcare reform debate is "politically correct. In hospital or medication usage it means "after eating" Latin: Post cibum

The ability to work with other disciplines smoothly across the boundaries of each discipline due to the requisite work, education and respect for the other discpline, allowing for a model of care that reduces the boundaries that used to cause inefficiencies and unnecessary time wasted.

... they will have to raise rates on their policies, possibly to the point where many policy holders can no longer afford them.

With water and plenty of sunshine. You weed the bed it is in and you feed it regularuly to ensure it will grow and prosperm and give you the enjoyment of its fruit.