Controversial Affordable Care Act: Good or bad? Affordable Care Act‚ also known as Obamacare‚ was signed in to law by President Obama on 23rd March‚ 2010 and the Health Insurance Exchange Marketplace just opened on 1st October‚ 2013. Some people disagree with this new law by saying that Obamacara would increase taxes and Obama is socialist. Is Obamacare really bad for American people? I think that Obamacare has more advantages than disadvantages for several reasons. First of all‚ the universal
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circumstances in which one party will be liable to another in negligence.Breach of a duty of care essentially means that the defendant has fallen below the standard of behavior expected in someone undertaking the activity concerned ‚so for example‚ driving carelessly is a breach of the duty owed to the road users‚while bad medical treatment may be breach of the duty owed by doctors to patients.In each case‚the standard of care which could be expected from a reasonable person.This means that it is irrelevant
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HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS * Laboratory Medicine (clinical pathology) * A medical discipline in which clinical laboratory science & technology are applied to the care of patients. * Comprises several major scientific disciplines: clin chem & urinalysis‚ hematology ‚ microbiology‚ immunology & blood banking‚ for some laboratories cytogenetics‚ toxicology & other specialized divisions are present. USE OF THE CLINICAL LABORATORY * Serve to educate the physician
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interesting aspect of the entire environment regarding how providers are compensated is provided by the RAND Corporation. The article highlights the transformation and the models that have been structured within the health care industry‚ the article is appropriately titled: Paying for Care: In Depth. I will offer two key observations: “In 2016‚ 85% of Medicare fee-for-service payments will be tied to quality or value through programs such as the Hospital Value Based Purchasing and the Hospital Readmissions
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few ideas really made a difference in the healthcare field. The innovation that I believe made a real difference in the healthcare field is the electronic medical records (EMR). Electronic medical records have recently been introduced in the health care field and so far have been getting a positive feedback. Electronic medical records can benefit patients in many ways. One major way it can benefit a patient is the efficiency of the records being organized and easy for any practitioner or staff member
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After reviewing the post‚ there are many aspects that I agree and disagree about the nursing care method. I definitely agree on the first priority of nursing care should be to address the patient’s cramping and bloating. The cramping and bloating was essentially the primary concern of the patient and was the result of the constipation. Additionally‚ I agree that the SMART outcome should involve the goal of the patient having a bowel movement by the end of the nurse’s shift‚ because having a bowel
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The purpose of the Care Act 2014 passed into law in May 2014 is to safeguard adults from abuse and neglect‚ set care standards‚ health education and health research authority (LGU‚ 2015). In the past‚ support from social work services used to be the so-called ‘post-code lottery’ until the Care Act 2014 came into effect in April 2015 and has modernised the legislation and practices of adult care (DfH‚ 2016). The main principles of the Care Act 2014 are the "provision of wellbeing and prevention and
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Evolution of Managed Care HCS/235 Evolution of Managed Care Managed care is a type of system that was formed to help control the costs and quality to health care services; this will give access to services to specific groups of covered patients. The system was created to help the patients (customers) to receive services without having the full financial burden (University of Washington‚ 1998). The managed care services’ goal is to be able to help individuals and their families by providing
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Obama Care (also known as Health Care reform) is a national health care plan aimed at reforming the American health care system. Obama Care’s main focus is on providing more Americans with access to affordable health care‚ regulating the health insurance industry and reducing spending in health care. There are around 44 million Americans who currently are unable to get health insurance. One of the major things Obama Care does is help these individuals to get health insurance through expanding Medicaid
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Reflection 1 I arrived on the ward at 7.00am ready to begin a 10 hour shift. After receiving handover my mentor assigned me the job of bed bathing Mr T with the help of a health care assistant. Mr T was admitted with a broken radius and ulna; this means that your forearm is made up of two long bones that sit side by side. The inside bone is called the ulna‚ and the outside bone is called the radius. You have broken both bones. A fracture means just the same as a break. The bone ends are out of
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