Health Care Reform On March 23‚ 2010 President Barack Obama signed The Affordable Care Act‚ also known as health care reform‚ into law. (whitehouse.gov‚ 2013) The Affordable Care Act has brought on a lot of controversy within our country mainly because the people who oppose the new act are not well informed on what the aspects of the new law entail. With so many details to this new law‚ it is no wonder why so many American’s are confused; the Affordable Care Act is meant to help us not to hurt us
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Imagine waiting two to three years for a routine hip or knee replacment‚ or being an 8 year old child who has a serious health issue but not being able to receive proper health care due to inadequate or no insurance. Many people in America can not afford health insurance and face issues worse than this on a daily basis. Problems like these are issues that politicians are constantly working to come up with a solution to. One of the proposed solutions is universal healthcare. I will elaborate in the
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United States of America. It was out of this particular case and others as such that the guardian/ward relationship was created to form the Snyder Act of 1921 and the Indian Health Care Improvement Act of 1976 ("Indian health services‚" June ). It provided legislative authority for congress to move funds into specified health care of and for the Indian People. Because there is still the existence in the untrue biased belief that American Indians and Alaska Natives are not citizens of their states of
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2010 earthquake‚ struggles even more then before to maintain the health and wellbeing of its citizens. An overwhelmingly large percent of Haiti’s population lives below the poverty line and suffers form malnutrition‚ anemia and other diseases. Haiti has about 25 physicians and 11 nurses per 100‚000 population. (Wikipedia.org) This is a very sad situation for the citizens of Haiti because the incident of disease is so high and medical care so low‚ one could imagine the mortality rate for disease that
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Task 1 P1. Explain the concepts of equality‚ diversity and rights in relation to health and social care Health and social care practice should acknowledge‚ respect and accommodate this diversity. Promoting inclusion and equality‚ taking rights into account‚ is an important part of health and social care provision. A central issue for care worker and care originations is how best to respond to the needs of a diverse population‚ while also ensuring that every service user enjoys equality. For example
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Principles of Health and Social Care Practice This unit develops understanding of the values and principles that underpin the practice of all those who work in health and social care. Learners will consider theories and policies that underpin health and social care practice and explore formal and informal mechanisms required to promote good practice by individuals in the workforce‚ including strategies that can influence the performance of others. Module Contents 1 Understand how principles
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Healthcare Transparency According to American College of Physician “ transparency is defined as characterized by visibility or accessibility of information especially concerning business practices and readily understood" (American College of Physician‚ 2010‚ p. 3).Transparency when applied to health care focuses on sharing of information and processes. The health care provider needs to disclose the cost of the most common procedures they perform (“Gov. Doyle‚” 2010). It will help consumers get price estimates
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reduce errors. Despite focus on increasing patient safety in hospitals‚ medical errors continue to remain high (Petula 2005‚ p. 6). By adopting the concept of systems theory this could possibly help to reduce medical errors and improve quality of care. By ensuring that the medical teams work as a unit rather than individual members‚ errors can be reduced and quality improved. By adopting system theory thinking‚ the healthcare team visualizes the entire healthcare system as a whole‚ not just as
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confidentiality in the health care systems and how to protect and prevent it from landing in the wrong hands. Many patients and clients does not feel like their medical health and conditions are been kept safe in their health providers care. So many security bleach has happen in numerous hospital across the country that has put patients‚ workers and families at risk due to lack of security in the system. Even with computer electronics in most hospital patient medical information are still being
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* Health Care Paper * Health is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “the condition of being sound in body‚ mind‚ or spirit; especially: freedom from physical disease or pain”‚ but it is much more than that (Merriam-Webster‚ 2013). Health is one of the main components of living a long and happy life. Without our health‚ we could not live our daily lives in the manor that we normally do. Health care is imperative to ensure a healthy community and a healthy nation. One may assume that the
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