Influenza Vaccines: A Case Study

46.8 million Americans were reported as uninsured in 2013, which equivocates to one sixth of the population. Those without insurance have revealed that they risk “more problems getting care, are diagnosed at later disease stages, and get less therapeutic care” (National Health Care Disparities Report) and those insured risk losing their insurance. Inadequately covered citizens are often working-class individuals who simply cannot receive insurance due to uncontrollable inconveniences and therefore jeopardize having medical coverage. In these instances, Americans have a chance of being diagnosed with diseases that they had no opportunity to prevent or could not diagnose them at an early stage of the illness. Patients have suffered unnecessarily due to lack of health care, and “18,000 Americans die every year because they don't have health insurance” (PNHP).

When ObamaCare was passed, Americans were assured that it would provide insurance for 32 million people who did not have any coverage. Four years later, ObamaCare has covered far fewer new people, between 10% and 20% of what was promised, and about half of those were through an expansion of Medicaid—a burden that will eventually bankrupt the states—rather than through ObamaCare’s insurance exchanges. Most of the people buying insurance through the exchanges are those who were kicked out of their previous health insurance plans by new regulations. It turns out that if we liked our health insurance, Americans could not keep it. For some, this will be bad.

With limited sources of assistance, our veterans depend on volunteers, donations and funding from outside the US Federal Government. 3-c. A substantial amount of donors have halted their contributions to WWP, awaiting the results of the current audit. Though understandable, the true victims are and will be the disabled veterans. The outcome uncertainty, among the employees, contributors and disabled veterans, will hinder upcoming programs and assistance funds. Parents of two disabled war veterans, Fred and Dianne Kane, have donated $325,000 to WWP, over the past 5 years, through their personal charity, Tee-off for a Cause.

Maynard and Diaz had been married just over a year a year when she was diagnosed with cancer. Uprooting their lives in California to move to Oregon was challenging for their entire family. Like my daughter, all Americans should have the right to die with dignity "That was one of the worst things, having to leave our home at that time," Diaz told CNN 's Dr. Sanjay Gupta in 2016. "We move to Oregon; Brittany applies for this (lethal) medication; she puts it in the cupboard, and that 's it. "We continue doing everything we can to extend her life," Diaz said.

According to government and private studies, about 22,000 of our fellow Americans die each year of treatable diseases because they lack insurance and can’t afford a doctor. (Reid 2) The wealthy people with money, the elderly, and the less fortunate are able to receive all of the benefits of having health care insurance, Medicaid, or Medicare. Unfortunately, for the rest of the people who make too much or make too little, who may also one day come down with an illness, are basically left to die. It is as unfair

In the year 2014, “48.1 million Americans lived in food insecure households, including 32.8 million adults and 15.3 million children” (FeedingAmerica.org). Welfare is in existence to prevent these statistics from occurring. It is to provide homes and nutrition to those whom cannot receive said necessities without government support. However, several Americans take advantage of this system, leading welfare to appear as a mockery to the onlookers. If welfare is removed from the American country, then this statistic would grow catastrophically year by year.

Health equity has become an increasingly popular research topic during the past 25 years. The increased popularity as a research topic reflects that a growth of interest in health equity on the part of policy makers, donors, non-government organizations (NGOs), and other stakeholders[1]. Hundreds of published papers on the health equity have uncovered that many countries in the world have been implementing the reforms of the healthcare systems, in ways which are management systems of the healthcare are being improved and modernized financially and technically. The main aim of the reforms in most low and developing countries is to provide universal health coverage to the citizens[2]. The universal health coverage (UHC) refers to securing the

Vaccinations have been proven to help prevent the spread of infectious diseases, but due to personal or religious belief, there are individuals who have refused to vaccinate their child and therefore put the public at risk for vaccine-preventable diseases. Vaccines have helped stop the exposures to deadly diseases. Prior to the discovery of vaccine, vaccine preventable disease outbreak killed thousands of people around the world each year, but for those who survived the disease lived with life long complications. The most devastating disease that killed a drastic amount of innocent lives throughout the century is smallpox. According to the World Health Organization, “smallpox is an ancient disease caused by the variola virus.”(WHO).

Aristotle once said, “Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime” (Aristotle, Aristotle 's Politics, 1920). Poverty has become a huge issue that the whole world is facing. People who cannot afford the life’s basic needs such as food and shelter are said to be poor. According to UNICEF, 22,000 children die each day due to poverty. “And they die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scrutiny and the conscience of the world.

7 months later I lost 84.6Kg! When I went to my GP she tested my blood sugar levels and pressure and I was told that I could throw away my diabetes medication. The Banting diet works because ‘unlike so many diets, it isn’t a punishment’ where one starves. The Banting diet has not limited my life but rather it has improved it and I feel that Tim Noakes saved my life. I have never heard of any failures but only success stories of the Banting diet.

The owners of Hobby Lobby Stores Inc., the Greens, devoted Christians and married couple who filed a suit back in November 26, 2013. This lawsuit was filed because of what the Green’s had to offer their employees in their health care agreement. Being devoted Christians, it is against most people’s belief to use contraceptives. As a business owner who is closed on Sundays and pays 90 percent more above the federal minimum wage, it 's safe to say that the Green’s mix their religious beliefs into their business and make sure there employees are taken care of. Out of 20 FDA approved contraceptives that are federally mandated, the Green’s had only objection to four of them.

so, each day, 4,000 – 8,000 people, mainly children, die from vaccine-preventable diseases” (Ulmer and Liu 292). However, if a law was created that made getting vaccinations mandatory, these numbers would go down and fewer children would be dying. That’s always a

It has been estimated that between two thousand and ten thousand dollars a month" (Dworkin 187). The cost to keep these patients is cringe worthy and there are very few patients that are wealthy enough to sustain the costs. For those who are not wealthy the cost and burden of debt falls onto love ones. Most family members do not usually think of the costs while they are still on this earth but when they pass away they are left with a huge hospital bill, sometimes leaving people bankrupt. Ronald Dworkin, author of Power for Life, said that "most patients want to spare there love ones with burdens of keeping them alive (193).