Rush will continue to treat uninsured patients, and eventually the accumulation of unreimbursed costs for health care services will be shifted to taxpayers. Not an attractive alternative in my opinion. There is also concern as to whether the rest of the PPACA can take effect even if the individual mandate is held unconstitutional. There is a chance that the whole law could fall apart if the individual mandate falls. If this happens, well, we will be right back at square one – a health care delivery
Spreading the burden to the entire population is unfair, especially when considering treatments that are required as a result of one making poor health decisions, such as: smoking, obesity, and drug use. Allowing those who make such poor decisions to pay the same amount as one who has attempted to lead a healthy lifestyle, is a very unwise decision. This is because it subconsciously promotes such bad habits, as there are no economic consequences imposed. Additionally, if one feels that taxes are high now, wait until a universal health care system is in place. It has been estimated by several economists that $339 billion a year in additional taxes will be the bare minimum needed to compensate for the high cost of health care.
2.0 How does Genzyme’s focus on orphan drugs affect the degree of competition it faces? The Genzyme corporation chose a different path then many other biotech companies. The fact that the company wants to be independent from larger pharmaceutical firm is both highly risky but if executed correctly if can generate more revenue. The key idea was that if there is only a few companies that specializes in orphans drugs, there will also be
Doctors who lack proper training or those who have impairment problems tend to believe that their patients are honest about issues concerning prescriptions. These may include certain issues such as losing prescriptions, or early refills. This, however, only happens when the doctor fails to identify a drug abuse problem in the patient. Another ethical dilemma in the same field occurs when doctors do not disclose full patient history in the medical file of the patient. This may cause other doctors to prescribe the wrong drug thus putting the life of the patient at risk, either due to possible
We all have an idea that the act was an unlawful one, to handle another human beings life as something we can take control over whenever we see fit. From an ethical standpoint, I can understand how the doctors did what was done, but moral they had no right to make a unanimous decision to end lives. The laws may vary from state to state the U.S. Supreme Court has walked into this arena, but the end effect has been to let the state decide what to do. “The Hippocratic Oath, traditionally taken by doctors, states: “To please no one will I prescribe a deadly drug, or give advice which may cause his death” Hippocrates (c. 460 BCÐ380
MDMA should be reviewed and rescheduled due to the fact that the initial scheduling reports were flawed, there are vast medical uses for MDMA in treating patients who have shown no improvements with other psychological treatments, and there is a very low possibility of death amongst users of unadulterated MDMA. Why must we withhold a drug that can be so very useful for the treatment of extreme mental conditions and possibly cure thousands of Americans of their
“Comparative News Story” Both the American and Chinese’s Healthcare systems are currently facing challenges. President Obama’s healthcare law is currently being analyzed by the U.S Supreme Court because there is a question of if it contradicts the constitution. Based on the article “How the Affordable Care Act Helps the U.S. Economy”, there are politicians who believe that President Obama’s healthcare law is unconstitutional. On the other hand there are citizens and other politicians who are supportive of the healthcare plan. China’s economy and citizens health is currently under fire because the universal health care spending is no longer proving a profit for the economy.
Again, this is not a genuine choice, but a social issue, one that stems from how our society cares for its elders and for the poor, and whether minority groups can get good health care” (Lynn, 2006). People think that some people will be pressured into committing suicide instead of having other choices while they are dying. They think that people with no or poor health care will choose this just because they will cause less of a burden on their families. “A 1997 study conducted by the American Medical Association (AMA) found that more than half of Americans believe physician-assisted suicide should be legal. However, when people are told about alternatives to the technological treatments so many of us fear, and about the availability of pain control and hospice care, their support for physician-assisted suicide goes down to under one-fifth.
This will lead us into a case where, Pfizer failed to keep its commitment to corporate social responsibility as one of the most successful pharmaceutical companies, the choice they made to choose to bear unethical behavior in 1996. “Given the risks and costs of developing a new drug, pharmaceutical companies will jump at oppor- tunities to reduce them, and Pfizer thought it saw one” (Hill, pg 139, 2011). The case in point is the event that Pfizer gave its novel antibiotic “Trovan” to allegedly sick children without the consent of the parents when there was a serious outbreak of meningitis in Kano Nigeria. Pfizer’s choose the risk route and chose to ignore the children’s personal safety in testing. For personal gain and envious reason, this is was a violation of commercial ethics.
Physician Assisted Suicide Why is it only ethical to die “naturally”, after a long illness filled with highly “un-natural” life extending medical procedures? Over the last twenty years, physician assisted suicides have become a sensitive issue in governmental offices as whether to legalize such an option. Even though many religions prohibit suicide and the intentional killing of others, and some believe it violates a portion of a doctors’ Hippocratic Oath, Physician Assisted Suicide should be a legal option for those with terminal diseases or conditions because reasonable laws can be constructed which prevent abuse and still protect the value of human life. Physician assisted suicide is the voluntary termination of one's own life by administration