Health Care Reform Research Paper

Proponents of Organ donation state in The American Transplant Foundation that over 700,000 transplants have taken place in the United States since 1988. Anyone can become a organ donor, though children must have a parents consent to become an organ donor. The American Transplant Foundation states that around 116,000 people in the United States are currently on the waiting list for a lifesaving organ transplant. If you are a healthy person you can be a ‘living donor’ by donating blood, bone marrow, a kidney or part of your liver, lung, or intestine. Relatives are most of the time a living donor but can also donate to a stranger.

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down In the book, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman explores the cultural collision between the Hmong Lee family and their American doctors. Along with the culture clash, the social stigma against the Hmong family brings to light a lot of the systematic, moral, and ethical issues that can arise in our healthcare. Ultimately, the combination of the cultural clash in medical perspectives, the underlying social stigma, the inadequate treatment, and the miscommunication hindered the proper diagnosis and recovery of led to the demise of the Hmong child. However, many of the problems could have been easily avoided or resolved with more patience, objectivity, and most importantly, cultural competence. Cross-cultural methods and approaches should be taken to accommodate for the diverse patient population in our communities.

Therefore, business was not good for doctors and hospitals since only the wealthy and the dying would reach for their services. Due to the circumstances, and in the search to ensure health to everyone, Baylor University came up with a solution, for .50 cents a month; a person would be cover if hospitalization were needed in case of sickness, so the first insurance was born in 1929 by the name of “Blue Cross”. Although during the Great Depression the health program had a setback, World War II changed the course of health insurance. Companies were buying it for their employees, later on, it became popular due to the fact that it became tax-free for the employer and became one of the benefits for the

James R. Baker, MD and chief medical officer of Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE), writing an article for the STAT Magazine, discloses information regarding the pharmaceutical drug pricing controversy, in his case EpiPens, that affects many middle-classed Americans. By using the appeals of ethos, logos, and pathos, Baker presents a viewpoint that is antagonistic of the business practices pharmaceutical companies have been following for the last decade. One of the ways Baker acknowledges their argument is by appealing to the emotion of his audience with his introductory sentence that shows how parents are forced to make hard choices surrounding the health of their children. “All too often, parents of children with food allergies are forced to make hard choices. Many are splitting up twin packs of EpiPens, others are keeping them past their expiration dates, delaying filling the prescription,

First, Alymer knew from the beginning that he was not a good scientist. His records showed that “many of his experiments...ended in failure” (Hawthorne 2). When he offered to ‘fix’ his wife’s birthmark, he should have known

When healthcare leaders fail to preserve the principles of medical ethics, the leaders are vulnerable to administering morally inappropriate patient care; consequently, the effects of such actions lead to undesirable patient outcomes. A physician in a case study involving a depressed elderly gentleman did not execute the ethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, and non-maleficence. The physician violated these ethical principles and as a result, he did not respect the right of the patient to refuse treatment, his actions did not benefit the patient and his health or well-being, and the physician prolonged his suffering. The following paragraphs will review the history of the case study and give examples of how the physician breached these ethical principles. Finally, as it pertains to the case study, a paragraph discussion focuses on

Many factors, including economic, social, demographic, biologic and ecological ones, led to the decrease in the occurrence of infectious diseases by novel pathogens. These factors include income increase, expansion of education, improvement of health services, industrialization and urbanization. The disease transition, known as the “second epidemiological transition” was undergone first by developed countries (Uusitalo, et al., 2002). The rate of infectious diseases has decreased the last decades because of development of medical practices and public health measures. During this time period, the burden of mortality has been shifting toward non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as heart failure, cancer, and diabetes (Harper & Armelagos, 2010).

These cyber threats have made most of healthcare's trusted technology less reliable and there is a race to find solutions. Issue Education According to the Solutionary, an NTT Group security company, "the healthcare industry was the victim of 88% of all ransomware attacks in U.S. industries last year and 89% of studied healthcare organizations have experienced a data breach, which involved patient date being stolen or lost over the past two years. These health data breaches have cost the healthcare industry in America alone an estimated $6.2 billion, according to the Ponemon Institute. Health systems are such an

By the end of Russia’s involvement he was sending poorly trained and ill-equipped men into battle and was losing the confidence and backing of the Russian army. This was one of the major factors that led to his demise, he was a weak leader and commander but also he was running a very undemocratic government and this was shown with the creation of the Duma. The first Duma was established after the defeat in the war to the Japanese in an attempt by the Tsar to retain power. The Tsar however did not expect when he offered free elections to the Duma that the electorates would begin to criticise him and demand change. This resulted in the collapse of the first Duma which showed that the people hadn’t a right to an opinion and nothing could be changed as long as Tsar Nicholas II was in charge.

Healthcare workers, patients and communities at large remain highly exposed to healthcare waste. Contaminated needles/ syringes and other supplies are unsafely disposed off in a number of countries and this pose a risk to healthcare workers and to the public at large. More than 16 billion injections are administered word wide. Of these, 95% are curative in nature, and 5% are administered in immunization setting. It is estimated that 50% of infections given in developing countries are unsafe, and these account for 33% of new hepatitis B virus, 43% of hepatitis C infections and 2.5% of new HIV infections (Path,

“As a part of the 1993 Economic Plan, President Clinton cut taxes on fifteen million low-income families and made tax cuts available to ninety percent of small businesses, while raising taxes on just 1.2 percent of the wealthiest people (whitehouse.gov, 2013). Along with this President Clinton also signed the largest deficit reduction plan. This resulted in over six-hundred

They also show how the 5 month period to get those in need as too long and the government should create an emergency Medicare system that can be called on incase of disaster. Nevertheless the most sobering cause to the health care disaster during Katrina is that the system itself is broken with millions uninsured and poor planning all the way up the federal government. With them stating the only way to truly prevent this from happening again “is reform the health system, making it accessible, affordable, and quality-oriented for

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 are many factors that led up to the reasons why healthcare costs have risen so rapidly, but one of the main reasons

He collected taxes without the consent of the estates general in order establish many things, fund a series of wars, build a bigger and stronger military and to build his palace, the Palace of Versailles, when it was built he insisted that the nobles spend more time there (Doc 2). This eventually led the nobles into debt because they spent most of their time and money at the Palace of Versailles. The nobles being in debt meant that they lost status and power, which ultimately fed the basis for the French Revolution. Document 3 states; “The aftermath of the revocation was disastrous for France. Many of those who abjured [gave up] their Protestant religion repented of their weakness.”(Doc 3) This demonstrates that the removal of the Edict of Nantes drove people insane because it granted the people France substantial rights, however when the rights were removed by Louis XIV people became infuriated, which is another reason to why the French Revolution occurred.

In this country, the healthcare system is struggling to incorporate a proper formula to insure an adequate transitions of care between different facilities. Due to these issues, hospitals and community practices are trying to develop better transitions of care systems to coordinate better care with their patients. Hospital readmission rates are becoming alarming, with almost 20% of discharged elderly patients returning to hospitals within a month for the same medical conditions (1). These readmission rates both hurt the hospitals, and more importantly, the patients involved; so, an effective system must be implemented that could ease this transition of care and help reduce readmission rates and healthcare expenses. The National Transitions