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Healthcare Reform
The debate over whether to create or change major governmental policy regarding health care coverage through public sector insurance programs or private insurance companies.
491 Questions
What are the three interconnected phases of health care policy making?
Formulation, implementation and evaluation.
Why would insurance companies disagree with universal health care?
Universal health care would mean that a person that does not have a great deal of money to spare, would then not have to give it to an insurance company just in case they get sick. At present the insurance industry has every one over a barrel. they not only control enormous amounts of money, but they also control the actual quality if health care with their economics as the criterion. In other words you have to go with them to get health care but they also control the quality of the care you get. If they have to compete with a scheme that is essentially free to the man in the street, they stand to lose a lot of money. they stand to lose control of the cost structure involved in treatment leading to better o utcomes for the patient in many case's.
Explain the term of duty of care?
provision of proper mutrition clothing and toileting bathing proper safety measures administration of needed medicines and the like by a competent designated caregiver
What are the contemporary issues in social care?
current issues in the media that affect people's lives e.g diabetes- how much it is costing the NHS to treat peolpe
What are the pros and cons of health care reform?
The Pros and Cons of health care reform
The below applies to US healthcare reform in general and in regards to Obama's 2010 Healthcare Reform Bill:
* Everybody can have health insurance if they want it.
o Insurers will not be able to stop paying for people who are sick, even if they lose their jobs.
o People who cannot afford health insurance won't have to pay as much money.
o People who are already sick will be eligible for healthcare.
* In the long run it will (hopefully) reduce medical costs significantly. Rising medical costs are the main reason the long-term budget projections are so alarming. Something has to be done. Unfortunately, this bill might not do enough. While there will definitely be some savings, it's not clear that they will be as transformative as hoped.
* Health insurers can no longer cap coverage. In other words, they will no longer say that they have spent enough on you and you're on your own for the next hundred thousand dollars. This should reduce medical bankruptcy.
* There will be increased competition in the insurance market. It might be from a public option. It might also be from some kind of non-profit, state-specific co-operative. This might push the healthcare companies to lower costs and provide better service.
Cons:
* For the first ten years, it will cost about $100 billion a year. This is about the yearly cost of the Iraq War.
* The bill might increase the cost of health insurance. This depends on whether the gains from increased efficiencies and increased competition is outweighed by the cost of providing additional benefits.
* The Individual Mandate. You will have to either buy health insurance if you don't have it or have a 2% tax increase. This insurance will be subsidized-but there is no guarantee that the subsidy will suffice for your specific situation.
* There will be a tax increase on very high income people. If you are making more than half a million (or maybe a full million) you will have about a 1% tax increase.
Other stuff that might be good or bad, depending how you see it
* Increased government involvement in health care. Government already pays for huge amounts of health care-so this won't be anything new.
* Additional regulation on insurance companies. This might increase costs. It will increase quality.
* Physicians will have increased access to information about what treatments are most effective for their cost. If two treatments work equally well and one is cheaper, doctors can recommend that one. This was almost universally considered a good thing until a few years ago, but some people have started criticizing it lately.
* Large employers may also have to offer health insurance to more of their employees. If they do not, they may have to pay some extra tax.
What is the Steps in community mobilization in primary health care?
Steps for community mobilization are as follows a. Know initial contact with the community leaders b. Know the community c. Communicate intention to the leaders d.arrange meeting with the community leaders and community representatives e. Develop agenda for the meeting f. Explain the purpose of the meeting in an acceptable language.
Healthcare in Germany is still a semi-market based system without any kind of direct government buying/selling/funding of healthcare. A great article describing the kind of healthcare used in Germany can be found here - http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/17/health-reform-without-a-public-plan-the-german-model/
What are Republicans' views on health care?
As Congressman Grayson put it: "Don't get sick! If you do get sick, die quickly!" The Republican attitude is every man for himself and screw your neighbor. They don't believe in any type of social contract or government intervention, until something goes wrong and they need help. Then they go crying to the Government like babies like the Governors of Mississippi and Louisiana have done after Katrina and now the oil spill.
What are contemporary issues in health and social care?
i dont know you tell me????? im stuck on same question mate
What should the goals of health care reform be?
Insure the 50 Million Americans who do not have health insurance and dramatically reduce the rate at which health care costs are rising. Making people healthier would also be a bonus.
Why does the US need health care reform?
50 Million Americans do not have health insurance and another 25 Million Americans are considered under insured. In addition, over the past 10 years, health care costs have increased by 120% while our GDP and wages have only increased by 30%. Health care costs are rising at twice the rate of inflation and are bankrupting private citizens, state governments and the federal government.
Who actually wrote the house health care bill?
(1) I suspect a hand picked group of Ivy league professors & interns (law).
(2) Actually, this Senate Bill was never intended to become law. It was a jumbled up mish-mash of bargaining points expected to be combined with the House version in Conference Committee. But, in the rush to get this monstrosity passed, there was never a Conference Committee; therefore, never discussed by the House & Senate, with no Congressional "intent of Congress" and no "blue book" (which is like minutes taken at meetings of all conversations, etc.) Without the "intent" and "blue book", the regulation writers who tried to decipher this mess did the best they could with what they had to work with, which is why none of it makes a whole lot of sense.
Is there an official email address for health care reform?
You can go to WhiteHouse.gov and click on a variety of topics.You may get a reply, but itis a standard form letter or some unwanted e-mail from David Axelrod like I did. I never addressed any questions or remarks to him. Be aware that any personal info you give must by law , be retained by the White House, and I have no idea with whom they share their contact lists.
Write to the email addresses of your representatives in the Senate and House of Representatives to express your opinions on healthcare reform.
How much is the cost of the health care reform per taxpayer?
The CBO estimated that the cost of HR3240 is 1 trillion dollars over 10 years. There are about 130 million taxpayers per 2005 data. So it would cost about $750 per taxpayer per year.
Has any branch of government voted on health care reform?
Has any branch of government voted on health care reform?
When will universal healthcare be implemented?
HR3240 calls for the employer mandate to go in effect in 2013 with an additional 30 million people being covered in 2019. The CBO estimate on HR 3240 contains a timeline with the number of people covered, and uninsured. All of this assumes that the bill passes.
What do you think about healthcare reform?
I think we are focusing too much on so called "reform", when it is actually just a reform of the payment system. We should be focusing more on preventing disease, education, rewards for positive health decisions and less on how we are going to pay for the people to get sick by their own hand. Aberrant behaviors such as obesity, smoking, drinking in excess, drug addiction, inactivity, all contribute to the burden of the current system. Lets look on reforming behaviors first. Reward the good behaviors, make bad behaviors less attractive.
Physicians, nurses and select medical personnel should be more involved in health care reform - they are the ones on the front line. Having someone who sits in an office or who practiced 20 years ago, making health care decisions for today's market, is folly.
Certainly government personnel are the absolute worst choice for health care policy making. People are being fooled by the false claims that are out there - on both sides.As an RN, I totally agree that we need more medical professionals helping to educate the general public on this subject and to enable and push for corrections of the current poorly designed system. That is why I strive to give some of that education myself.
I also agree that politicians are the wrong people to design the corrective actions and to make the policies that should be put in place. In today's US Congress, we can see clearly that we can not trust them to make decisions for the good of the people, and I'm becoming weary of their inability to make any decisions and angry about their ties to the rewards from lobbyists.
Rewarding good behavior is a good idea, however, first we need to address the problem of children and adults who are dying from medical conditions that are not due to excesses or unhealthy practices. They are dying because the care they need is no longer affordable and often over-priced. This is why reform is needed.
And, I most heartedly agree that we should all learn and practice better wellness behaviors.
But, I do not agree that most of the people who are uninsured and needing health care services in the US are sick "from their own hand", in fact...that would more likely apply to the wealthy who can well afford those behaviors and their resulting healthcare costs.
Rewarding good behavior is a good idea, however, the immediate
need is to address the problem of so many children and adults dying from conditions that are not due to excesses or unhealthy practices. Too many are dying right now every day because the care they need is not affordable. This is really why reform of the health care and insurance systems is critical right now:
A Harvard study found that 45,000 deaths per year
in the US today are a direct result of a lack of appropriate and timely care, because it was not affordable. A link about that study is in the related links section.
Where can you find a copy of the healthcare reform bill?
Actually one bill has not been chosen yet. Though several sketches of bills that the various Congressional groups have been working on have been published in various online news stories, a final vote has still not taken place. Search the internet for HR-3240 and you will find it, but it is reportedly 1000 pages long of legal jargon. I found that the CBO's report on HR 3240 was fairly informative and is a brief 17 pages.
What events took place in 1998?
- January 1 - Smoking is banned in all California bars and restaurants.
1. Describe the major trends in the evolution of health care services in the United States over the past 100 years. The major trends in the evolution of health care services in the United States has change over four consecutive time periods in the development of health care. During the 1850s hospitals were developed marking the beginning of organizing of health care, in the 1900s the movement of health care into the era of scientific medicine. World War II and the years to follow until 1980 was a major social and political development, while the years 1980 to the present represented the change of health care, from a primary clinically driven system to one that was increasingly economically driven.
How much does healthcare cost for the average American?
16% of the GDP and growing. Simply too much of it going to administration and CEO pay not the welfare of the sick.
Define the term ' duty of care'?
Its a legal obligation to look after and care for any vulnerable individual that is unable in any capacity to look after themselves. Actually by law, everyone owes a duty of care to everyone else, wehther vulnerable or not.
