The expansion of 340B discounts, where oncology drug makers provided outpatient drugs at deep discounts to facilities that met their criteria, also faced lots of criticism since the facilities where to pass on the discounts to the patients but did not (Wang, Tao & Hamilton, n.d.). All facilities are recruiting additional physicians. With the shortage of oncologists and other specialists many cancer facilities are using non-physicians such as nurse practitioners or physicians assistants to treat patients. The patients rated their care with non-physicians at 92.5% satisfaction rate (Acheson, M.D., A., n.d.). b. Orthopedic
This same protocol inadvertently restricted phlebotomy personnel from drawing blood out of the heparin locks, forcing them to initiate another needlestick procedure. Needs Excessive needlesticks are leaving patients angry and bruised. By addressing this problem immediately, we can help restore patient confidence and staff credibility. We must reduce the number of needlesticks are patients are receiving and eliminate any protocol that inherently or inadvertently increases the number of needlesticks. Scope The proposed plan includes a detailed assessment of methods, personnel requirements, training (including costs), feasibility, and expected results.
Rhetorical Analysis of Sicko In Sicko, Michael Moore presents a relatable documentary of the disintegrated U.S. healthcare system which deprives a lot of Americans the health treatment that they need. As the film progresses, he fulfils his argument that Americans need to fight for Universal healthcare by unfolding the flaws of the American healthcare industries and contrasting it with the socialized healthcare in other countries such as France, Canada, Cuba, and Great Britain. Moore further supports his argument by showing real life horror stories and testimonies of insured working class Americans and the healthcare workers. He also uses rhetorical appeals to persuade the audience such as showing them (the insured or uninsured people) the agony and even death that the ordinary people had to endure all because of the American healthcare system that is inhumanely declining health treatment for making profit. This gives the audience an emotional response mainly anger, hatred towards the American healthcare companies, sympathy towards the afflicted and fear of being one of the victims of American healthcare system.
They also may be targeted as a people that are frauding the government because of all the medical attention they need. People with chronic conditions are always at the doctors or needing some kind of procedures done. It is very difficult for the government to decipher whose claims are fraudulent and whose are real. The government needs to unite with the insurance executives and come up with a plan and a program to investigate frauds and recover some of the money that has been given out. If the government and the insurance executives work together they would be able to get a lot accomplished.
Benson as negligence. Keeping in mind the definitions of negligence, gross-negligence and malpractice, I would have to argue that Mr. Benson’s case is one of malpractice. The defining fact that Mr. Benson was injured at the hands of a medical professional makes this an issue of malpractice rather than negligence. Mr. Benson’s injury was a direct result of a medical professional failing to act in “accordance with the prevailing professional standards” (Guido, p.93). The circumstances surrounding how the incorrect extremity was amputated was not clearly identified, but the doctrine of res ipsa loquitor – “the thing speaks for itself” – can be applied in this instance (Guido, 2010).
STDs, most types of pneumonia, infected wounds or lacerations, and most other bacterial infections are routinely treatable now, but were far more debilitating or even lethal just a few decades ago. • the decline in deaths from heart disease and stroke. Between 1972 and 1992, death rates from heart disease plunged by 51 percent, but coronary heart disease is still the leading cause of death in the United States. The decrease was driven by combinations of screening, education, cholesterol and blood pressure medications, dietary changes, and exercise regimens. • the recognition of tobacco use as a health hazard, which I’ll talk about in greater detail in a moment... • motor vehicle safety.
Almost one-third of adults in the U.S. are obese, and more than two-thirds of adults are overweight. Obesity rates have increased by 214 percent between 1950 and 2000(Livestrong.com). Also According to livestrong.com, the main cause for the increase it weight among American’s is lack of exercise, as well as the convenience of fast food, and caloric increase. This rise in obesity has increased diseases such as heart disease, and type 2 diabetes. As a country, we are spending over $190 billion a year treating these diseases, diseases that could be prevented by increasing exercise and decreasing calories.
Healthcare Spending Paper Tracy Grainger HCS/440 August 8, 2011 Humberto Munoz Healthcare Spending Paper Why are the United States healthcare costs skyrocketing? There are several conditions that have been working together that have moved to a decade of unrelenting increases. The United States spends more on health care than any other country does, and studies have shown that 30% of it, more like 700 billion a year has been wasted on unneeded care. This is mostly due to routine CT scans, MRI’s, office visits, hospital stays, minor procedures, and brand name prescriptions that are requested by patients and ordered by doctors every day. Patients in higher spending regions such as Los Angeles get more tests, more procedures, more
As these children grow older, they are actually, in many cases, at high risk of being seriously injured or even killed by this harmful thing, obesity. Only six years ago a survey was taken up that led to knowledge of estimated deaths caused by obesity-related illness. The astounding statistic shows that 112,000 to 325,000 American adults die from it every year. This means that people with the highest BMI’s are twice more likely to die prematurely than the average American. Here are a few examples of the illnesses caused by obesity: type 2 diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular (heart) disease, and asthma.
Considering that Medicare spending has increased significantly at the present level, all budgets, allowances, and reimbursements relating to Federal programs and private providers has hit an ultimate high over the past year. Mainly because many Americans are facing a future with the highest US Deficit; a staggering level of unemployment; and no medical coverage for health care. The Federal Government is accountable for an overwhelming increase of expenditure by more 35 percent within the first quarter of the annual reporting cycle. Approximately, 1 in every 15 people are at the poverty level and do not have health care (US Census, 2011). The most shocking factors are that more funds of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) went to health care