More often than any time before‚ healthcare budget is top of the political and media agenda in many countries around the world. The debate about the reform on healthcare payment model has frequently become the focus while the voice of supporting the shift from the current volume-based payment or soon to be activity-based payment to the ultimate outcome-based payment is getting louder over time. As a result‚ many authorities have linked the remuneration prob¬lem with concerns about quality and performance
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changes in the U.S. health care system‚ this best-selling text remains the most concise and balanced introduction to the domestic health care system. Like its predecessors‚ it provides an accessible overview of the basic components of the system: healthcare personnel‚ hospitals and other institutions‚ the federal government‚ financing and payment mechanisms‚ and managed care. Finally‚ it provides an insightful look at the prospects for health care reform. Steven Jonas‚ a revered expert in public
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Case summary – Enron Corporation’s Weather Derivatives Steve Haik‚ Dan Sleker and Bas van Bellegem – March 2003 Background In October Mary Watts‚ CFO of Pacific Northwest Electric (PNW) reviewed the forward plan for PNW’s 200-2001 season. PNW’s has been experiencing nearly no EPS growth since 1995 due to deregulation and warmer-than-average winter climate. The stock price had suffered accordingly‚ but there maybe a way to hedge the weather risk via a new “weather derivative” being proposed by
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Ideal healthcare system will be the one that works for all the individuals in the community without disparity or confusion. With an ideal healthcare system‚ members in a community will get adequate access to care‚ basic information‚ better research and information for the patients (Yvonne‚ 2009).In this paper; I will discuss the various key factors to be addressed in the development of an ideal model of care. Access to health care Access to healthcare is a factor of
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The passage of the ACA has changed and still changing the quality of services delivered to four major stakeholders: patients‚ employers‚ healthcare providers and states. As the result of the ACA‚ the congress established the Center for Medical & Medicaid Innovation (called now Innovation Center) and mandate “both robust financial support and unprecedented degree of flexibility in testing and evaluating care delivery and payment/reimbursement models” (p.459). The purpose of the Innovation Center
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Everybody concurs that healthcare must be accessible to all citizens‚ but the debate on whether the United States should adopt a universal health system still rages. According to the Institute of Medicine (2002)‚ the U.S. is the only developed country that does not guarantee that its citizens have health care coverage. President Obama pledged to reform the country’s healthcare system by increasing health coverage and reducing expenses. Opponents of the universal healthcare law assert that the state
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Healthcare continues to be an issue that plagues the United States in today’s society. In 2008‚ while running for the presidential election‚ President Obama stated that his vision for healthcare in the United States was that all Americans would have access to affordable healthcare‚ and that a public health organization would be created that would concurrently work with the medical system to help prevent and treat diseases and maintain wellness (Obama‚ 2008). In order for everyone to be able to afford
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The central text for this project is the film Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room by filmmaker Alex Gibney. This film investigates‚ documents and then exposes the many moves that led to the collapse of Enron. The director focuses on the chief leaders of the corporation as his principal characters in order to develop the story as a human tragedy. Throughout the course of the film‚ each leading character is revealed. All players were found to be distinct in their strategies and methods. However
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The collapse of Enron case study Q1. The key stakeholders involved in‚ or affected by the collapse of Enron are: employees and retirees‚ thousands of them lost their jobs and the investment; the executives: Kenneth Lay‚ Jeffrey Skilling and Andrew Fastow they sold significant blocs of company stock‚ have conflicts of interests; government figures‚ Lay had close personal tie with the Bush family‚ Enron’s efforts influence policy making; regulatory authorities: Commodities Futures Trading Commission
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Systems in Healthcare September 2013 We Can‚ But Should We? Imagine someone accessing another person’s medical information by scanning a bar code square with his or her smartphone? Would you participate if it could possibly mean the difference between life and death? Well‚ a company called Lifesquare is piloting the program and states this program can save your life by saving time in critical situation (Rich‚ 2012). Quick Response (QR) Codes are amongst the growing technology in healthcare. This
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