“Obama Care” Health Care Statement of Ethics and Rationale By Kevin M. Ali, Doctoral Candidate “Obama Care” A Statement of Ethics and Rationale President Obama (2008) representing the public interest proposed Modern Health Care for All Americans. The Obama health care plan constitutes important public policy that exposes a challenging ethical dilemma in the current business environment. The fundamental considerations of health care reform involve various morally relevant factors that express straightforward goals that seem well-matched with consequentialist ethics. According to Salladay (2006), consequentialist ethics takes the view that ethical choices are relative to the context in which they must be made and should be guided by the desired outcomes, which must be beneficial (p. 24). Ethics, market integrity, and the role of regulation in facilitating market integrity have major implications for private industry, government, political groups, and special interest groups.
Ethical Self Assessment Health care management fields, networks and systems have consistently changed since all began. An important part today’s business world is Ethics; this also applies to the health care field as patient’s information is a sensitive area. The American College of Health care Executives (ACHE) demonstrates the the organization’s commitment to ethics and support the ethical decisions made by its members (Ache's commitment to, 2014). This assignment requires a self-assessment of an individual’s ethical decisions within the health care industry, and the effects of the decisions made by the author during the evaluation process. It can be stressful for one to look at the results of a self-assessment test and see areas that need improvement.
It is especially important that each patient understands both the benefits and risks involved in using statins. This article will bridge the gap of understanding between doctor and patient; however, it is an overview and not a comprehensive exposition of the subject. Thus, doctor and patient must decide together whether statins are the best treatment for a specific case. Cholesterol Cholesterol: Is it good or bad? The truth is: It’s both.
The Impacts of the Affordable Care Act: How Reasonable Are the Projections? Jonathan Gruber NBER Working Paper No. 17168 June 2011 JEL No. H3,I18 ABSTRACT The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the most comprehensive reform of the U.S. medical system in at least 45 years. The ACA transforms the non-group insurance market in the United States, mandates that most residents have health insurance, significantly expands public insurance and subsidizes private insurance coverage, raises revenues from a variety of new taxes, and reduces and reorganizes spending under the nation’s largest health insurance plan, Medicare.
Enhancing patient safety also contributes to the overall success of the healthcare facility (Potter & Perry, 2013, p.370). Patient safety is a sensitive topic that I feel that must be discussed and addressed very often. The purpose of this paper is providing awareness to patient safety, and how medical errors and lack of safety can compensate patient safety. Review of Literature Patient safety is a growing concern
However they did not take immediate action but it still did help add to the list of reasons to why the government needed to take action fast. Changing attitudes was perhaps the most important factor as the government are the people who needed to tackle public health actions. Once the ‘big stink’ reached them it was inevitable that
“During the 2008 US presidential election, then-candidate Barack Obama (US Senator, D-IL) campaigned for the need to reform the American health care system, stating that the cost of health care was a threat to our economy and that health care should be a right for every American”("History of the," 2011). Health care reform was on top of the would-be presidents’ agenda. In November 2008, President Barack Obama took office. In 2009 and 2010, he continued to try to persuade Congress to pass the reform on health policy. “An explicit health policy can achieve several things: it defines a vision for the future which in turn helps to establish targets and points of reference for the short and medium term”("Health policy," 2014).
Their diligence in researching the matter was great, however, they had to be very careful in what they were reporting and how they worded their findings as well. Diplomacy in informing the public about the virus without highlighting the fact that many Gay men were contracting the disease was of the utmost importance to the US government, so much so that the CDC’s funding for research and
Explain what universal health care could be, and my experience with the health care expansion. The recent health care reform measure has expanded and inhibited access to health care. The health care reform was signed into legislation as The Affordable Care Act on March 23, 2010 by President Obama. The law is to give people with no health care a chance to obtain health care affordably. It also helps individuals with preexisting conditions to be covered as well.
(2008). Employer adoption of evidence-based chronic disease prevention practices: a pilot study. Retrieved November 10, 2010, from http://www.cdc.gov/PCD/issues/2008/jul/07_0070.htm Geyman, J.P. (2005). Myths and memes about single-payer health insurance in the United States: a rebuttal to conservative claims. International Journal of Health Services, 35(1), p. 63–90.