Abstract “In the U.S. alone, more than half a million reports of abuse against elderly Americans reach authorities every year, and millions more cases go unreported.” (www.helpguide.org/mental/elder_abuse_physical_emotional_sexual_neglect.htm) Our senior citizens eventually become feeble physically which means they are less likely to have the capability to fight off an attacker. Majority of elderly do not see, hear or think as soundly as they once had the competence to do, this leaves them vulnerable for immoral people to take full advantage of them. Elderly are being abused more than we know and often by those who are personably accountable for their care. Sadly, majority of the abuse comes directly from family members of the elderly patient. In 2010 according to research about ninety percent were family members of the person in need of care.
Sutter Health’s Retooling of Accounts Receivable October 18, 2010 An increasing issue within healthcare is the inability to collect debt from the rising levels of uninsured or underinsured and patient payment obligations which have put increased pressure on hospitals to maximize up-front cash collections. Today in the United States there are nearly 47 million Americans uninsured and 80 percent of those come from working families. Hospitals incur over $60 billion dollars in bad debt annually because they typically collect only ten to twenty percent of a total uninsured patient balance after service. This is due to a number of reasons, including poor accounting practices, a lack of correct patient information and a lack of generated reports. This paper will discuss how one company, California’s Sutter Health,
They are held back by traditional gender roles. Many women thus have to work two jobs, at the workplace and at home as The U.S. is one of a few countries that doesn’t provide paid maternity leave, so women often lose the opportunity to advance. There is also a huge disparity of women in government positions, as the U.S. ranks #69 among countries with the highest percentage of women in government. Women make up 50% of the population in the United States, but only 17% of Congress and have never served as president. A large part of this has to do with stereotypes, as women are seen as weak and unlikely to serve better than their male counterparts on issues such as national defense.
Going to an emergency room instead of scheduling a doctor's appointment has become a trend in this country. Translated into dollars and cents that means 40.5 million people paid up to three times as much for routine care as they would have paid at a physician's office. They probably wasted a lot of time too because emergency rooms are not set up to care for routine illness, and they do not work on a first-come, first-served basis as many people mistakenly believe. To ensure that the sickest patients get immediate care, emergency rooms use a triage (French for "sorting") system of evaluation so that critical cases, such as people suffering from heart attacks or injuries from serious accidents or violent crimes, are treated first. Everyone else may have to wait quite a while before being seen.
While 58% of families below the UK poverty line contained at least one working parent, benefits available still do not bring them above the 60% median household income. [4,7] Along with income inequality other inequalities such as: ethnicity, housing and the neighborhood in which the child lives; all contribute to poverty. People from ethnic minority groups in Britain are significantly more likely to be living in poverty. Around a third of all children are living in poverty; but disadvantage is deeper among children in ethnic minority groups as a whole. Homelessness; poor accommodation such as overcrowding, poor state of repair blights childhood.
The answer is they wont survive, it is estimated that 15,000 orphans die every day due to malnutrition which is completely preventable. Americans have the means and reasons to help out these children, adopting internationally is expensive, no one will tell you different. But is it worth letting a child die rather than paying for their health? The answer is no, every child deserves a family that you could provide for them. A family that will support them and give them a health life.
Roosevelt started the welfare program he also gave a stern warning that in history society had become dependent on welfare and as a result, it decayed the societies of moral fiber. He went even further to say that it was a violation of American tradition.14 More and more people are becoming dependent on welfare every year. To classify as dependent, more than half of your monthly income must be welfare.15 Did you know that in the state of California you can get $450 a week for unemployment if your yearly income for your last job was over $11,674?16 For a single mother with two children under the age of five in California for one month you could get $131.58 from WIC, $526 from food stamps, free medical, and $704 from TANF.17-19 That is at least $3161.58 a month for raising your children, and who says being a stay at home mother isn’t a full time job? That is why it is so easy to get dependent on welfare. Who would want to work and have less money than if they stayed at
The welfare programs had a drastic drop in recipients between 1996 and 2004 by 9 million cases, the “Welfare Revolution” (Cancian). During this time, millions had entered the labor market and began to learn how to benefit from federal aid programs (Cancian). In the 1990’s welfare gained much criticism because the recipients had felt that being on welfare was much more beneficial than being a part of the work force. Welfare income was exceeding the amount of income from the labor market and this was causing quite an issue. Women were choosing not to work in order to receive more welfare benefits long term (Cancian).
Of all the research found on the internet, the most common effect was that children who had a care taker showed more aggression then children who were primarily taken care of by their parents. The typical nanny works as a full time job. That means that they charge a full, 40 hour week and will do so for a year (per a typical contract). A nanny that makes $9-$12 an hour would cost at least $400/week, which means it can get costly. Because of this, they are typically only used for desperate cases (or rich families).Desperate cases refer to any number of things, but typically are for families where the parents do not have the chance to see their kids all the time.
Today, it is estimated that over 45 million Americans lack health insurance. Of those uninsured, over eighty percent are working, middle class families. The rising costs of healthcare has caused many American’s to just simply “do without”, and employers are struggling to provide adequate coverage for employees. Of those employers who are able to provide insurance, many of the plans cover only a small number of doctors visits’ a year, and fractional percentages of total prescription costs. It is no secret that the United States has a flawed health care system that needs to be changed drastically.