SHOULD THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PROVIDE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL CITIZENS WHO CANNOT AFFORD THEIR OWN? Health care is not a privilege. In fact‚ a good level and quality on healthcare should be an inalienable right for all people. Social class‚ status or economic situation shouldn’t dictate who live and enjoy of good health or who doesn’t. Healthcare in America should be universal‚ continuous‚ and affordable to all individuals and families. Although some of the states in the US are taking unilateral
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“Father of Medicare”. He was the first to create a provincial hospital insurance program which ended up becoming national throughout Canada. An idealistic who achieved his dreams‚ he changed the face of Canadian politics. He created the safety net which we have as Canadians today that ensures we will always have the help we need. Tommy Douglas is what made Canada’s healthcare what it is‚ allowing people to get healthcare when they need it. Tommy Douglas is known as the “Father of Medicare” because
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Disease Economics Introduction The Federal Government of the United States initiated health care transformation for patients that suffered renal failure. According to Sullivan‚ the Medicare Part B made facilitated the initiatives that every American citizen to be entitled to the medical coverage after a given period and without discrimination on age (D.‚ 2010). The ESRD program has been appreciated in several occasions as a success
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and elder are the government‚ citizen‚ and family. The government is responsible for enforcing policies that promote good health and long life expectancy because the wellness gets regulated by the government. Some programs are Medicaid‚ FMLA‚ and Medicare. In addition‚ the government should take action to abuse of elders because the government is the power of the people. However‚ the United States lacks consensus on which policies should get adopted or rejected (Markson‚ Stein‚ Alden‚
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Contrast the Medicare method of payment for physicians with the Medicare method of payment for hospitals. Medicare reimbursements for physicians and for hospitals have some similarities and have some major differences. In one regard they are the same in the sense providers and hospitals are both federally funded for services and not state funded. Another similarity is that on average they are only given a percentage of the payment from the government leaving sometimes a gap in money from what
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Millions of baby boomers are starting to retire‚ and spending on Social Security and Medicare as these programs are currently structured is simply unsustainable. What is your plan to solve the looming entitlement program spending crisis? 3. Medicare as we know it today is facing severe financing problems that are unsustainable and putting future generations’ Medicare benefits in jeopardy. Over the long term‚ Medicare has made $37 trillion worth of promises to seniors that it cannot keep and the hospital
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Assessing Needs Many older patients are prescribed multiple drugs‚ take over-the-counter medications‚ and are often prescribed additional drugs to treat the side effects of the medications that they are already taking. The increase in the number of medications often leads to polypharmacy‚ which is defined as the prescription‚ administration‚ or use of more medications than are clinically indicated in a given patient. One widely used ADL tool is the Barthel Index : measure functional levels of self-care
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Medicare is designed to help with long – term care for the elderly‚ while Medicaid covers health care costs for the poor. Medicare is a federal program that is attached to social security. It is available to all U.S. citizens 65 years of age or older along with people with certain disabilities. The programs include
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our low rates are methods for substantially reducing costs without greatly diminishing the quality of our service. And here are some methods about cutting cost without diminishing the quality of service: outsourcing‚ cut the extra bonuses‚ cut the Medicare‚ cut long tip allowance‚ slow down the promotion and the voluntary administration. Certain airlines have responded to the burden of wages and employee benefits by contracting out‚ or outsourcing services. The first and the most useful method is
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Medicare Severity Diagnosis-Related Groups “For fiscal year 2008‚ Medicare adopted a severity-adjusted diagnosis-related group system called Medicare Severity Diagnosis-Related Groups or MS-DRGs. This was the most drastic revision to the DRG system in 24 years.” (Schraffenberger‚ 2016‚ p. 702) MS-DRGs had a single goal to which was to improve the ability to recognize the severity of a patient’s illness for inpatient hospitals. Within this system hospitals with the sickest patients
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