CASE STUDY: BUSINESS FEELS THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE UNINSURED PROBLEM Vanessa Flores November 5‚ 2012 Ashford University Describe the issue based on the topic/content area/change in your own words (2-3 sentences) (the uninsured issue is the case study in this chapter): Uninsured employees choose to stay sick or self-medicate instead of going to see a doctor. This affects the stakeholders because it leads to lower employee morale and productivity due to their health issues that are not being
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Case Study: Stakeholder Dynamics Stakeholder Dynamics The main issue that is described in this case study is the impact of uninsured is great for many of the stakeholders that are involved. The main problem here is that there doesn’t seem to be a solution anytime soon. Unemployment continues to be a major concern and without a job insurance is not very probable. In mid-September the US Census Bureau reported that the number of people without health insurance increased in 2009 to an all-time
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Stakeholder Dynamics-“Business Feels the Consequences of the Uninsured Problem” Abstract This paper explores how businesses are suffering due to people that are uninsured. There is a growing concern from business‚ employees‚ hospitals‚ tax payers and the government on the increase rise of people that are uninsured. This paper examines the impact on stakeholders from a case study. Research was gathered from the text book‚ internet and health magazines to gain a better understanding of
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over 47 million non-elderly (>65) Americans were uninsured (KFF‚ 2013). Since the ACA was implemented researchers found 32 million still remained uninsured (KFF‚ 2015). Why are so many still without insurance? Researchers have found that this population mostly consists of low-income‚ working families (KFF‚ 2015). In other words‚ those who are working hard to make ends meet‚ but cannot afford insurance premiums. The consequence of going uninsured is detrimental to one’s well-being‚ as the chances
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People on Medicaid or uninsured should just get a job! Why are we paying for their medical needs? A person with BCBS‚ Cigna‚ and United Healthcare should get quality service because they are hard working citizens‚ unlike THOSE on Medicaid! These are typical statements and questions people will make. I’ve never understood the personal vendetta against people on Medicaid or the uninsured‚ not all Americans are able to afford health insurance. An article from ProCon.org states there are 46.3 million
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Who pays for the uninsured‚ and how much? By Scott Cooney On March 3‚ 2012 · 1 Comment · In Policies of Sustainability ..inShare. According to a 2009 US Census Report‚ 50.7 Million People are uninsured in the United States. That is 16.7% of the population. Or one of every six people. You might be surprised who is uninsured. The cost of health care for the uninsured is paid for by the government and by increased costs to everybody else. Both of these costs are passed on to us in taxes
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Role of Nursing to Mitigate Uninsured Patients As a nursing profession‚ the American Nurses Association is advocating for a single-system payer to reduce inefficiency‚ simplification of rules for the health care reform that will provide a universal coverage‚ and curtail the increase cost of administration‚ as originally proposed by the Institute of Medicine in 2004 (Lopez‚ 2011; Groves‚ 2014). Nurses can stand together to petition the lawmakers in Texas to expand the current programs for Medicaid
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Stakeholders in a business Terms of reference I have been asked to compile a report on the different stakeholders of a business. Stakeholders are a group of people who have an interest in the business. I have been asked to research‚ investigate and explain the stakeholders that influence the running of Tesco and Harrods. Procedure Firstly described the following stakeholders and stated the interest they had for the business: * Customers * Employees * Suppliers * Owners * Pressure groups
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how a lack of insurance has implications to not just the individual‚ but society as a whole. The number of America’s uninsured has increased steadily over the past quarter century. In 2005‚ nearly 47 million Americans were uninsured‚ representing close to one-sixth of the nation’s population. Suffering from high levels of economic insecurity and poor health outcomes‚ the uninsured place large costs on the U.S. economy. Success in extending coverage depends upon making health plans affordable enough
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Business Dynamics- Ventana Systems Name: Institution: 28th March‚ 2013. Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modelling for a Complex World Introduction The problems that arise today often do so as a result of the resolutions that were arrived at yesterday. Social systems today suffer from what is known as policy resistance. This is the tendency for interventions implemented with a good will to be defeated by the reactions or retaliatory responses of the system to the same intervention
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