with all of its technology and high industrial development is still lacking to provide all its citizens health services. The health care system in the U.S. has major faults that affect both patients and physicians. Many Americans lack health insurance, and cannot be seen by a physician routinely. There is a shortage of physicians due to the cost of medical school and of malpractice insurance. In order to provide free education for medical students, malpractice insurance for physicians, and free health care for everyone, taxes need to be raised.
Case Study: Jason’s Health Data Scenario: The Missing Data: Data Linkages Celia Langlinais University of Phoenix HCI/520 Manzanita Brown July 28, 2012 Week-Two Selecting a Database for Personal Health Records: A 2011 analysis piloted by Markle Foundation showed that 79% of American adults have faith in the electronic form of personal health records (PHR) would make sizable benefits available in monitoring their health problems. Only 2.7% of the charted individuals keep PHRs in any electronic form. According to Markle Survey (2011), a large crowd of 58% respondents showed anxiety about their personal health records (PHR) security as the number one reason for their lack of enthusiasm to hold the knowledge. Information security is the protection of information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification or destruction. Information security is achieved by ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information.
SCHIP Background Between 1987 and 1989, a peak number of uninsured children lacked access to regular health care because their families lacked the means to pay for health service. According to a Health Affairs Organization report, twelve million children had no health insurance coverage (Cartland & Yudkossky, 1993). This 1993 report suggested that an expansion of Medicaid coverage would not decrease the number of uninsured children because of Medicaid’s income eligibility threshold restrictions (Cartland & Yudkossky). Problems persisted prior to federal enactment of State Children Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), approximately 10 million of children across the nation lacked access to health insurance coverage (Smith, 2008). A sizeable portion of these children lived in middle-class families that could not afford private health insurance or from families near or below federal poverty income limits that did not enroll in Medicaid (Smith, 2008).
I knew we lived in a day where people do not really seem to care for one another, but I would have never dreamed it would have been that way in the healthcare system. Although watching Michael Moore’s film was heartbreaking, it was very well put together. His film is mainly about the American Health Care system as seen through Michael Moore’s own eyes. In the film, Moore compares the non-universal and for-profit U.S. system with public funded health care systems in Canada, United Kingdom, France and Cuba. Sicko focuses on the 250 million Americans who do not have health insurance and who have become victims of the insurance company’s fraud or being denied any kind of coverage for their medical conditions.
It is the only industrialize nation that does not provide health coverage to all of its citizens. There is widespread opposition to providing universal health care because of the substantial cost that will be added to the country’s budget that is already heavily burdened. Indeed, while this is a valid and understandable concern, every citizen in the United States has the right to quality health care coverage. The cost of health care has been on a steady rise for the past several years. According to The Kaiser Family Foundation, the average cost of family insurance coverage in the United States was $13,000.00 per year in 2009.
The Value of Affordable Healthcare The US is the only First World industrialized country without a nationwide healthcare plan. Access to affordable healthcare is a sign of a stable country that recognizes that a healthy citizenry makes good financial and moral sense. The recently passed Affordable Care Act is a start but it falls far short of what could be possible. The cost of the uninsured and underinsured on the economy of the country is enormous. According to the White House, “46 million Americans are without insurance” (p.1).
Having problems paying for primary healthcare is no longer the preserve of the poor or the unemployed, but is affecting even those with medical insurance (Shea, 2005). Fifty million Americans lack medical insurance, while another twenty five
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.
Lack of Health Care in the United States Erica Dobbs Davenport University English 110 Joan Burke July 18, 2011 Introduction The problems Americans face with the lack of health care are insidious. There are many solutions to a problem that affects us all, in more ways than one health care issues and their resolution are at the forefront of the agenda for the United States alone. The problem of patients out numbering doctors continues to increase the lack of affordable care. Being one of the largest industrialized countries, the United States alone has been slow at achieving the goal for its citizen’s to obtain affordable health care. Background Too many illnesses
Nearly 47 million Americans, or 16 percent of the population, were without health insurance in 2005, the latest government data available (DeNavas-Walt). In 2005, nearly one in 20 people between the ages of 18 and 64 said they were unable to get necessary prescription drugs during the past 23 months due to cost (National Center for Health Statistics, 2007). National surveys show that the primary reason people are uninsured is the high cost of health insurance coverage (The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Employee Benefits: 2007). Unfortunately, even the insured are feeling a burden of health care costs.