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
The reason to question the effectiveness of the fiscal integrity of the Obama care bill. (Heritage Foundation, 2011) There are pro’s and con’s with the Obama care reformation. The cons are that one of the greatest fears of the Obama care is that they will lose the right to choose their own doctor. Another con is the medical cost and billing issues for both the patient and the doctors. Both parties are questioning who will cover the cause of health care treatment.
Ethical Policy Analysis of the 2004 Flu Vaccine Shortage Politicians are often faced with making decisions that affect all citizens’ health and healthcare options. There are different ways that the situations are assessed and policies are made. Some of these decisions are based on an ethical analysis of the situation, while others are made out of greed and other political reason, and some are just made hastily without any real effort. An important question to consider is also how qualified these politicians are to make decisions on citizens’ health. Many policy failures could have been prevented with proper analysis of the situation and implementation of policies to protect the citizens.
Conflict Theory and the Government Shutdown Eugene Peter Lewis, Jr. SOCI 200- D01 LUO Mrs. Susan Deneen November 24, 2013 One of the biggest news stories of 2013 as we near its close is the shutdown of the United States government. The legislative branch of the government has a task enumerated by the Constitution- agree on spending so that the government may be funded. When this does not happen, most of the rudimentary processes of the government fail to function. The Republican members of the House of Representatives desired to fund the government with the obvious exemption of the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare. The Democrats in the United States Senate insisted on funding the entire federal government, including
One common topic in many political conversations is government standardized health care. Government standardized health care is not what this country needs for so many different reasons. Just for starters, the general American public does not support the bill, but our governments legislation is still trying to force it on the American public. Also, more and more government officials are loosing support for standardized health care. Everywhere you go, there is evidence of our economy taking a down turn.
Health care and reform has been the most debated subject in in the recent years “2008 to present”. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act “Obama Care” is the center of debate and conflict between the House and Senate to include the individual States. The goal of Obama Care is to reform the American health care system by regulating the health insurance industry and at the same time lessen spending within then health care industry. On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed “Obama Care” into law, just three months after taking office. The President’s objective “promise to the voters” was to provide a more affordable with not settling for substandard health care to all Americans.
Despite these facts, we are far from universal coverage. The author contends that our insurance system which attempts to cover everyone by providing minimal healthcare services. The article identifies two approaches for reform of the system. The first is addresses a paradox in the system and argues that there be greater access to some of the very technologies elevating the costs of health care under the current system, namely, high technology health care services. The author states that predictive measures need to be available to all in order to improve outcomes and ultimately reduce prices.
When patients only seek healthcare from an emergency provider their care is more expensive and may be disjointed because emergency providers do not have access to a patient’s complete medical chart. In this situation, duplicate testing is done and medications may be prescribed that are not safe for the patient. The use of the emergency room as a primary care provider and the disjointed care of patients in the emergency room are two of the many challenges that healthcare providers and governments face when a patient with chronic health problems loses their healthcare coverage. One step that may assist governments in providing safe and effective care for patients who do have chronic health issues but do not have health insurance is to provide a healthcare insurance program where the premium cost for the
MORALLY RIGHT - ASSISTED SUICIDE DONE Does physician assisted suicide belong in this world? Is it ethical to voluntarily kill oneself and gain relief from the sufferings of society? Many philosophers have a broad range of opinions on this issue. Some argue that it is valid and the correct step to take, while others disagree and state that it has no place in the medical world. For instance, a philosopher named Albert Campus states , “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.” Furthermore, some commentator’s voice that physician assisted suicide is requested because of poor care, is simply wrong, only leads to a downhill path, and goes against the purpose of medical treatment.
31).Conversely, no-one can be appropriately assigned the right to say life-saving means should be abandoned because someone else determines that a patient is an excessive burden or that it costs too much to treat a condition. Humans deserve the right to life, even if that life is not what others may judge as a good one. The government and doctors’ cannot decide who lives and dies by passing a law that relieves patients of their rights. Mankind’s right to die has been extensively discussed; however, passing laws in support of physician-assisted suicide takes that option from the patient and puts into the hands of those who may not have the patient’s best interest in mind. This topic is bigger than allowing a loved one to go softly from life, it involves too much room for the abuse of the nation’s elderly, mentally ill, and poor, which should not, and cannot be allowed to