In 1998, the states paid a little over seven dollars a day per inmate for healthcare (Kinsella, 2004). You can imagine that in the last thirteen years, this cost has continued to increase and will only get worse with the aging prison population, the occurrences of communicable disease and
The Transition Plan is an HMO product including a prescription drug benefit that helps reduce monthly premiums (Kaiser Permanente, 2011). Having a community partner helps Kaiser Permanente to identify low-income individuals in which are not eligible for Medicaid and Medicare. The community partner helps individuals apply to the Transition Plan. In addition, the Ohio Region has an Access to Care Program called Healthy Connections Network in Akron, which assist individuals that are ineligible for other assistance programs. Many patients in which has a medical home are more likely have better continuity of care and less likely to need high-cost emergency care services (Kaiser Permanente, 2011).
Mortality Rates As the medicinal industry becomes more advanced, life quality drastically improves. There are many causes to why mortality rates in the 1500’s were low but there are also multiple factors that helped changed the mortality rates to the way it is currently. Mortality rates of today have decreased vastly compared to the 1500's mortality rates in Europe. “A mortality rate is a measure of the frequency of occurrence of death in a defined population during a specified interval.” There are sub categories in mortality rates, such as crude, cause-specific, age-specific, infant mortality rates, and much more. During the 1500’s in Europe, one in every three or four children born died before the age of 15.
Barry Folland In 2000 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its report “ Too Err is Human”, citing that as many as 98,000 people die per annum from medical errors and attributes to the eighth leading cause of death. The cost is estimated at between $17 and $29 billion a year, of which health care costs are one half. The Department of Health and Human Services did a survey in 2010 and found that 180,000 people die per year as a result of medical errors and infections. The health care industry has been behind a decade or more in attention to assuring basic safety. Safety is a critical first step in improving quality of healthcare.
B. Results The results of the Massachusetts reform have been encouraging along a number of dimensions.3 First, there has been a dramatic expansion of health insurance coverage in the state. The data vary across sources, with state-level data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) showing a 60 percent decline in the uninsured since 2006 — over a period of time where the share of the national population without insurance was rising by 6 percent — and data collected by the state’s Division of Health Care Finance and Policy showing a decline of 70 percent.4 Either number indicates a sizeable reduction in the number of uninsured, with Massachusetts having by far the lowest uninsurance rate in the nation. A major concern with such a large expansion in access to care is that it will cause congestion on the supply side of the market. Indeed, many have argued that we have a chronic shortage of primary care physicians in the United States and that expanding coverage will only worsen that shortage.
Key Players: The accessibility of employer-sponsored health insurance has dropped about 10% over the past 10 years. With the drop in sponsorship, the total number of Americans that are uninsured has increased. Monthly premiums have approximately doubled within the past few years. With the rising cost of insurance and stagnant incomes, this puts families in a tight situation. Many employers are paying portions of the premium for the employee’s health coverage.
Research is showing that government increased new employee contributions to pension plans, 14 percent increased age and service requirements for normal retirement for new hires, and 9 percent reported that pension benefits were reduced for new hires. For current workers, 23 percent of those surveyed from local government answered that current employee contributions to pension plans had been increased over the past year, 8 percent said that employer contributions had been increased for current workers, and 3 percent had reduced/eliminated cost of living adjustments within the past year. There have been many changes to the provision of health benefits as well. Among the top three changes, 50 percent of the local government human resource executives reported that their government shifted more health care costs from employer to employees (examples: higher premiums, co-payments, and deductibles) over the past year. Twenty-seven percent of the respondents’ governments had created wellness programs, and 11 percent had shifted more costs from employer to retirees within the past
Current research from the National Institute on Aging indicates that the prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease doubles every five years beyond age 65. As the population ages the disease impacts agreater percentage of Americans. The incidence of the disease is rising in line with the aging population in America. 2012 Alzheimer’s disease Facts and Figures article provides a statistical resource for U.S. data related to Alzheimer’s disease, the most common type of dementia. An estimated 5.4 million Americans of all ages have Alzheimer’s disease in 2012.
Healthcare 1 Healthcare Cost Control Sherry Jones English: Composition II 121 Michelle Pinkard July 6, 2009 Healthcare 2 When it comes to healthcare we all wonder how we will be able to afford the cost. Being able to control healthcare cost is up to the people, for example if you can go see a doctor instead of going to an emergency room that will be saving money not only for you but for the insurance company as well and it will keep insurance cost down. Healthcare premiums has raised 25 percent since 2004. “Healthcare costs have increased dramatically over the past few decades and are now thought to be excessively high. That has caused current political revaluation of our health care costs.
In 2011, it was predicted that the number of Americans uninsured would be reduced by more than half when the Act is fully implemented (Rosenbaum, 2011). “The law will result in health insurance coverage for about 94% of the American population, reducing the uninsured by 31 million people” (Rosenbaum, 2011). With the expanded access to health insurance provided by this law, more and more people are now seeking health care. Because of this new trend, the supply and demand for nurses and other healthcare professionals will be unbalanced. Another rationale for shortages has to do with the retirement of the aging population in the nursing workforce.