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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prescription Drugs are medications that are prescribed to patients by a doctor to help in many ways‚ such as relieve pain‚ treat symptoms of a disease‚ or to help fight an infection. They are very safe when used properly and under supervision of a physician‚ yet if used without approval of a doctor they can be very harmful and in some cases could lead to death. During your adolescence years‚ teens have curiosity which builds up and leads them to experimentation. They pop a pill‚ get high and then
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Health Care Industry Paper By: Stephanie Santana University of Phoenix HCS/449 Karen Gibble Health Care Industry The health care industry is the fastest growing field. As the years go by‚ more and more discoveries will be made. This paper will discuss the changes from the past 10 years‚ what I believe will be the biggest change in the next 10 years‚ my role in the industry‚ adapting my skills to grow with the change‚ my perception towards the changes‚ technologies role‚ and financial and
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Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic Kartia Kelly COM/156 May 19‚ 2013 Eileen Kicmal A recent poll conducted by the Partnership for a Drug Free America found that adolescents listed drugs as the most important problem facing people their age; prescription drug use is a major problem in our country. (Sallin‚ 2006; Partnership for a Drug Free America). In the United States the second most commonly abused category of drugs are prescription drugs‚ which is then followed
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Argument 1 Prescription drugs are the second most commonly abused category of drugs‚ behind marijuana and ahead of cocaine‚ heroin‚ methamphetamine and other drugs. The National Institutes of Health estimates that nearly 20 percent of people in the United States have used prescription drugs for non-medical reasons (Longley par.8). Some prescription drugs can become addictive‚ especially when they are used in a manner inconsistent with their labeling or for reasons they were not prescribed. Those
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The Health Care Reform Bill is legislation that would change health care in the United States. This bill calls for the creation of health insurance exchanges that would allow individuals and small businesses to purchase insurance on a sliding scale based on income. These state based exchanges would be subsidized by the federal government the amount subsidized would again be based on income. It calls for some of the funding to come from a tax on investment income of 3.8%‚ an excise tax on high end
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healthcare reform now. Every American should have access to affordable‚ quality healthcare‚ and to be able to make our own life and death decisions and not by insurance companies. 1. The cost of health care has skyrocketed and the quality of care has plummeted. A. The high costs are driven by greed by drug companies‚ hospitals‚ medical equipment and insurance companies. 1. Values are compromised B. 65% of citizens are concerned that they will not be able to afford the health care that
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Prescription and Drug Abuse I am introducing an Ethical dilemma of “Prescription and Drug Abuse.” This topic will be very beneficial to me. Since I am in the process of majoring in Pharmaceuticals‚ it will relate to any future encounters of drug abuse in work areas‚ at home‚ or even in the hospital. Prescription abuse is uneasy encounter that needs crucial attention to be controlled as much as possible. Prescription drugs will always have an abuser. There will be people that approach the situation
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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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Obama’s Health Care Reform HLTH 5120 Abstract According to the Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research and Educational Trust The Health care reform’s existing position after more than a year of political debate and legislative banter‚ congress finally approved a comprehensive health reform package. President Obama signed both health care reform bills‚ which included the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. It ’s
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