I was shocked mainly by two major problems that the dean of UNC’s medical school‚ William Roper pointed out in his lecture. The first issue I was shocked about was that over 50 million Americans go without health insurance in the U.S‚ each year. This is a devastating number for America because this means that 17% of our population is left uninsured each year. I find this distressing because this means that many Americans are not receiving the routine and preventive medical care that they need. In
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Lack of coordination among stake holders: Project stakeholders are the persons‚ group or organizations that have an interest in the project. Project stakeholders may be categorized by the question: “Is this stakeholder actively engaged‚ or just affected by the project?” The answer to this question will determine the level of interest and amount of contribution that the stakeholder has in the project. For example‚ an engaged stakeholder would be the project sponsor - as they have the ultimate authority
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www.ccsenet.org/ass Asian Social Science Vol. 8‚ No. 10: August 2012 Managing Stakeholders: An Integrative Perspective on the Source of Competitive Advantage Minyu Wu’ ’ School of Business‚ Curtin Universify Sarawak‚ Sarawak‚ Malaysia Correspondence: Minyu Wu‚ School of Business‚ Curtin Universify Sarawak‚ CDT 250‚ 98009 Miri‚ Sarawak‚ Malaysia. Tel: 60-8-544-3844. E-mail: minyu.wu@curtin.edu.my Received: March 19‚ 2012 doi:10.5539/ass.v8nl0pl60 Abstract Despite the enormous amount of academic
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Uninsured and Underinsured in America By Audra Wellington PBHE 502 Abstract In America‚ we not only have the problem of the non-insured but the under insured which causes just about as much problem as the underinsured. Each group has contributed to the vast growing cost of healthcare. Over the last decade or two‚ the amount of uninsured has risen due to the job market in the economy and the fact that most insurances are tied to employment
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The treatment for a person that is homeless and uninsured and mentally ill is appalling. They are treated indifferent in society. From the eyes of African American man in Louisiana; I seen them been rejected talked about. This is from doctors to the nurses to the staff. I seen people looked over and curse
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Stakeholders A stakeholder is a person‚ group or organization that has interest or concern in an organization. Stakeholders can affect or be affected by the organization’s actions‚ objectives and policies. There is two different types of stake holders‚ these are internal and external. Internal stakeholders are people who are on the inside of the business that already serve the organisation‚ these include staff‚ managers‚ board members etc. external stakeholders are from outside of the company but
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Every business has stakeholders involved. A stakeholder is anyone who has a claim in some way to a company’s products‚ operations‚ markets‚ industry‚ and outcomes (Ferrell‚ Fraedrich‚ Ferrell 31). Some stakeholders are more involved than others. Members that are needed for the company to maintain are referred to as primary stakeholders‚ whereas others are called secondary stakeholders. Primary stakeholders can be identified as employees‚ customers‚ investors‚ and shareholders and can also be governments
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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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STAKEHOLDER THEORY: A LIBERTARIAN DEFENSE R. Edward Freeman and Robert A. Phillips Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to suggest that at least one strain of what has come to be called "stakeholder theory" has roots that are deeply libertarian We begin by explicating both "stakeholder theory" and "libertarian arguments " We show how there are libertarian arguments for both instrumental and normative stakeholder theory‚ and we construct a version of capitalism‚ called "stakeholder capitalism
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of health insurance plan. Most of the uninsured population is made up of the young and healthy. It could have been cheap to insure the young and the healthy. In that regard the uninsured immigrant population is made of the young and the healthy. In that manner health insurance premiums could be lowered and thus benefit everyone who is covered under the provision of the Affordable Care Act (Capps‚ 2014; Medicaid‚ 2015). Many of the unauthorized and uninsured immigrants do work in dangerous and high
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