I will look on allocating resources for the elderly and end of life, and how it goes against ethical standards. Allocating Resources for the Elderly and Ethical Standards In an article by Craig (2010), it talks about how the health care resources has been diverted from the elderly and given to younger generations because they are the future and needs to stay healthier in life. This is an ethical issue that denies the elderly their right to health care. In this cases, though the elderly will not leave longer life compare to the younger people, but still need to receive their full health care till their last breath on earth. Ethical standards, I believe should be in allocating resources for elderly and end of life is the right to a good health care.
Currently, in the Obama administration, several acts have been passed to overhaul the healthcare system today. President Obama has also put healthcare reform as his top domestic priority. Both administrations, past and current, have attempted to enact several different policies in terms of healthcare reform; this essay seeks to examine the differences and similarities between the two while analyzing the social, economic, and political environments for the times the policies were discussed and/or implemented. Due to the increasing numbers of the population without healthcare, this problem continues to be an intense area of debate. According to author Michelle Andrews, healthcare remains a top domestic issue…but the candidates are focusing on major reform, and, when referring to healthcare reform, they generally focus on two primary areas: accessibility and affordability (Andrews, p.32).
The primary ethical dilemmas surrounding organ transplantation arise from the shortage of available organs and the criteria on who should receive an organ first and why. Not everyone who needs an organ transplant gets one. But not just that, Medicare funded organ transplants add another set of ethical issues to the equation. Medicare is a federally-funded health insurance program available to retirees over the age of
America has their reservations that a universal health may not work because of its lack of choices and freedoms. There are pros and cons to having a universal health care system. For one, a universal health care offers free health services to people that cannot afford health care the services they need. The cons, is that a universal health care system often results in long wait times for patients and not everyone may receive the type of care that they need. The rising cost of health care has cause the government to step in and control regulations and spending; thus creating a health care reform system.
Reimbursement and Pay-for-performance Theresa Kilgo HCS/531 December 16, 2013 Dr. Rachael Kehoe Reimbursement and Pay-for-performance There are a lot of problems within the health care system that State, Federal, and Local governments are trying to correct the matter by moving away from the fee-for-services model and move to the pay-for-service model. One of the problems is cost and efficiency of health care, and one of the ways that they are trying to fix the problem is with pay-for-performance. That can be defined as an incentive that provide financial funds to health care providers to carry out improvements focused on achieving prime patient issues, this program is widespread and many states have adopted the program, and many have a report that they have seen an increase in quality of care. This program was created to improve the healthcare systems, however, many authors have different meanings and roles of pay-for-performance but all agree on the definition and function of the program, “the objective of pay-for-performance initiatives is to link reimbursement to quality and efficiency as an incentive to improve the quality of health care, as well as reduce system wide costs” (Shi & Singh, 2012, p. 237). There are a lot of pros and cons of pay-for-performance in health care (see appendix for charts.)
Assignment 1: Health Care Economics Strayer University HSA 510 Sophia S. Medlin Dr. Pica-Branco Debate whether or not economics apply to health care. Be sure to discuss in what ways. Health is a vital part of living and in my opinion goes hand in hand with the way people decide to live their lives. When looking at the economics of health care it rewrites the overall study of how make decisions in regards to their health. When we examine the issue it mostly focuses on the people to people interactions; which in most cases are physician to patient, the entire health care system, and the health care policies defined by the government (Lawrence R. Wu, 001).
End of Life Issues Alicia Lange Indian River State College End of Life Issues In today’s society with the advancement of modern medicine and technology, ethical dilemma’s regarding quality of life versus quantity of life exists. Everyday families and loved ones are faced with the grueling decision to keep their loved ones alive as opposed to letting them die a peaceful, natural death. Being faced with the notion that modern medicine and technology can keep someone alive, but not add to the quality of their lives is a difficult decision we will all possibly face one day, either with ourselves, or our loved ones. Because of the advances in medicine and technology today, people are living longer with a growing number of elderly persons. Even though many of these elderly patient’s have Living Wills in place, the dilemma at times is that the family is not quite ready to let go.
History of U.S. Health Systems The need to supply quality health care for all U.S citizens has been a major concern for the people as well as the government from early on in our nation’s history. The ever increasing costs of health care led to many attempts to institute national health systems, but these attempts were defeated and the development of private health insurance was instituted. Although this has brought health care coverage to many citizens it has left many people without coverage, and has not affected the cost of health care as hoped. More attempts to institute a national health system have been attempted and met with defeat, but according to (Quadagno, 2004) "legislation was successfully passed in 1965 to provide governmental financing for health care services for the elderly and the indigent” this was the introduction of the government programs Medicare and Medicaid. Even with these government programs in place the cost of health care still rose at an astounding rate and other attempts to control costs were implemented.
According to the article, Sustainability of Evidence-Based Healthcare: Research Agenda, Methodological Advances, and Infrastructure Support, the healthcare system needs funds to perform evidence-based practice studies to improve health care and patient care. Although, evidence based practice of patient care has suffered because the lack of sustainability and the continuation of the funding for the research, resulting in diminished patient care. Evidence based practice is performed to promote optimal care for patients, but the means of conducting such practices and research must come from somewhere. Grants are received to conduct research to collect data, analyze the data ,and implement the data, although the collection of data, analysis, and implementation ceases one the grant runs out due to lack of sustainability. For example, in the article, Following the Evidence: Planning for Sustainable Change, the team is analyzing the benefit of a rapid response team.
According to American nurses association disclosing patient's details without their permission is considering breach of confidentiality (ANA, 2012). Disclosing patient's information is against medical ethics. Hippocratic Oath and Nightingale Pledge mentioned the importance of patient's confidentiality and the healthcare staff's commitment towards keeping patient's confidentiality (American Medical Association, 2014). All healthcare should ready to follow code of ethics for maintain the standard of patient care. Breaching of confidentiality may lead to weakening the relationship between healthcare staff and patients.