On March 23‚ 2010‚ President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law‚ putting in place comprehensive reforms that are intended to improve access to affordable health coverage for all U.S. citizens and to help protect consumers from abusive insurance company practices. Changes in the health care reform act will take place between 2010 through 2014; in 2014 the law will be fully implemented. The reform has many factors that can be considered good and bad. One is coverage. By a commonly cited
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decisions in the event the patient is incapable of communicating his or her preference. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA):An economic stimulus package enacted by the 111th United States Congress in February 2009; signed into law by President Obama on February 17th‚ 2009; an unprecedented effort to jumpstart the economy‚ create/save millions of jobs‚ and put a down payment on addressing long-neglected challenges. Ancillary
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Unit 245. Outcome 4 – understand the basic principles and practise of advocacy‚ empowerment and active participation in relation to supporting individuals with learning disabilities and their families. A socially inclusive society is defined as one where all individuals feel valued‚ any differences they have are respected and all their basic needs are met so they can have a dignified life. Advocacy is voicing the cause or policy of interested of the president no longer has the support of
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million people‚ will be without health care insurance because coverage will be too expensive (CQ Health beat News‚ 2005). The United States spends more money on health care than other industrialized nations but is the only one that doesn’t ensure health care coverage for all citizens. Every year‚ approximately 18‚000 unnecessary deaths occur because of health insurance lacking in the United States‚ (Institute of Medicine [IOM]‚ 2002). Proponents of universal health care coverage say this problem is
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Barack Obama’s health care plan follows the Democratic template—an emphasis on dramatically and quickly increasing the number of people who have health insurance by spending significant money upfront. The Obama campaign estimates his health care reform plan will cost between $50 and $65 billion a year when fully phased in. He assumes that it will be paid from savings in the system and from discontinuing the Bush tax cuts for those making more than $250‚000 per year. By contrast‚ the McCain Republican
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Government Intervention in Health Care Increases Cost and Decreases Quality Government intervention is a regulatory action taken by a government in order to affect or interfere with decisions made by individuals‚ groups‚ or organizations regarding social and economic matters. Government intervention sometimes is necessary to correct situations where the market fails to allocate resources efficiently or distribute income fairly. The reason why government usually
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The United States faces a major crisis in primary health care‚ and unless Congress acts immediately it is likely to become much worse. It is widely acknowledged that we currently have the most wasteful‚ inefficient‚ and expensive health care system in the world. American health care is caught in a vise‚ which has created a dire situation. The squeeze comes from the positive gains in life expectancy on one side and unsustainable medical costs on the other. Meanwhile‚ headlines are being grabbed by
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Financial Characteristics of Health Care Pamela S Hill HCA 340 Wanda Carter October‚ 16‚ 2011 "Quality healthcare management includes the financial growth and viability of the healthcare organization. A healthcare organization can realize quality healthcare management only when it is fully staffed with medical and managerial professionals and is able to invest in the most advanced equipment". (eHow.com). In 2009 it was reported that 46 million Americans were uninsured. In 2011 the uninsured
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Deinstitutionalization Deinstitutionalization is the process of in which people were taken out of institutional mental health facilities and given treatment in their own communities.Many people criticize this choice for being either beneficial or harmful to the patient and or the public. I stand in the area where i do believe if a patient is stable enough to take the drugs that allow them to live a normal life without having to deal with the mental illness‚ this will allow the “patient”
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citizens in the U.S. want affordable health care that will be able to help themselves and their family members. The purpose of health care is to facilitate the delivery of health care services‚ to protect individual and families against huge medical care expenses‚ and to avoid breaking national bank while they do so. In the U.S.‚ private insurance system actually interferes with the delivery of health care and is rapidly becoming too expensive. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) also known as Obamacare‚
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