Mukau, Leslie. "American Health Care in Crisis: Fundamentals of Health Care Reform." American Journal of Clinical Medicine® 6.4 (2009): 32-46. Web.…
In “Both parties can win if we cut healthcare costs,” by Arthur Garson, the author attempts to persuade intended bipartisan readers to find common ground in the health care debate. In “How healthcare controls us” by Robert Samuelson the author attempts to persuade intended republican readers to take a stand on how to reform current health care overspending. While Samuelson and Garson appropriately appeal to their respective audiences’ emotions, Samuelson is more likely than Garson to succeed in accomplishing the goal of getting the American voters to take a stand on healthcare reform because the writer presents himself as someone the intended readers will more readily identify with and offers evidence that readers will find more compelling. First, Samuelson’s strong ethos is due to his superior education on specific topics compared to his target audience’s education; he easily earns ethos through a teaching role simplifying explanations to complex ideas that thus allowed the target audience to better perform their duty as citizens (making educated stances on political issues).…
Our Veterans for years have struggle to access health care. These groups of population are vulnerable because they cannot obtain an appointment for health care within a reason time frame. A recent article discusses how the Veteran Administration kept double sets of appointment books. One book claim the wait time for new patient appointment was 24 days when in reality it was 115 days if not more.…
I feel that education is key in healthcare. We need to speak to the people and make them aware.…
Back when I was six, I was standing on the streets of Saigon when suddenly, BANG! A motorcycle backed up into me and my head slammed into the metal gates behind me. My skull started bleeding and I blacked out. I was rushed to the hospital. Another time, I was standing on a chair when suddenly I fell, cutting my chin.…
Patients, like Tommy, don’t truly know the effects of not pursuing the doctor’s recommendations due to the lack of education on the sciences itself. In Abraham’s book, Dr. Jones suggests that the government should encourage “aggressive public health programs [to] help [the] poor, less educated patients live healthier lives” (Abraham 144). By implementing such programs, individuals can not only be well informed of the long term effects that they may not foresee when making poor medical choices, but also build a stronger bridge between the physician and patient. Through the analysis of this book, it would be interesting to know more about how physicians can improve upon their method in portraying the importance of good health to their patients. Additionally, in what ways can we implement the aggressive public health programs, as suggested by Abraham, at a national, or even a global level in efforts to improve global…
Veterans do not have typical issues dealt with by most of the American public. It is imperative that the professionals helping them be trained in dealing with their specific needs. Training individuals to meet these needs is just the start, many states have inadequate funds for their VA hospitals leaving the hospitals staffed with too few professionally trained workers. Also existing is the problem of buildings being too small with insufficient room for patients and waiting lists that are unacceptable. It is apparent…
Affordable care act (ObamaCare) for short has been one of the holes threatening to sink the United States Titanic health Care system. Immediate repairs to this act are needed before it capsizes the health care system. The Obama care act is a healthcare act that gives affordable, quality health insurance to registered U.S citizen especially focusing on low-income families who cannot get quality health insurance otherwise. However, this “wondrous” Obama Care comes at the expense of health beneficiaries, tax payers and even senior citizens who require it the most. Health insurance is a major segment in the American society and inevitably American families.…
Reading about the struggle for immigrants to receive healthcare is pretty disheartening. You imagine an individual or a family who goes through all the work of getting to the United States, establishing themselves with a job and a halfway decent place to live, and then working their hardest to contribute to society, but at the end of the day, they can’t get healthcare coverage either because of their status or the fact that they work jobs in a sector that provides little to no coverage. The chart from the National Immigration Law Center shows how willing we are to accept and help individuals such as those seeking asylum to sustain a heathy living with coverage and government aid from organizations such as SNAP and medicaid, but the question…
Physicians and health care workers have to change the way of practicing, but also adjust the methods utilized in hospitals. Delving deeper than the provision of care, is the need to persuade beneficiaries to change how they behave, as well. Since the beginning of health care in the U.S., the system has been a reactionary system, although now it is being impressed upon beneficiaries to be proactive. Physicians are required to be diligent in the education of their patients and advocates for proactivity. (Are Medicare ACOs Working,…
Healthcare to U.S Citizens In the USA there are a variety of organizations provided to our citizens. Healthcare plays an important role in our society in general because it factors into our production. Programs, Production of Resources, Delivery of Services, Economic Support, and even Management organize our National Health System; we use this particular system because it shows how health needs or problems can produce health results or outcomes. Not only does it provide a systematic way of examining any one system but it also is a method for comparing health services around the world (Barton, 2009).…
The U.S. health care system does not meet the perimeters of a free or market-based system. In a free or market-based system, the price of health services is an established agreement between providers and patients. A free market is an economic system that allows the price of products to be determined by unrestricted competition in the market. Under a market-based system, prices are determined by supply and demand and the government has little control over production or trade. It is interesting align health care with the terms free market or market-based systems.…
However, the epoxy resin lining food cans was still a grave concern and widespread problem throughout the United States. A new study done during this time found BPA in several canned fruits, vegetables, and pasta treats consumed by many children. A Harvard study found that volunteers who consumed canned soup daily for five days had a 1,000 percent increase in urinary BPA (Datz, 2011). BPA is found in many foods and drinks ingested by Americans every day.…
The second challenge is that the U.S. does not put enough emphasis on primary care (Blumenthal & Hsiao, 2017). The U.S. chooses to focus on specialty care instead of primary care. “The third challenge is the administrative inefficiency of the U.S. health care system” (Blumenthal & Hsiao, 2017). The authors discuss that receiving care and the physicians care has become extremely complicated due to all of the paperwork and laws required. The fourth challenge people who are low income or low education have a significantly reduced chance of receiving care.…
Health care has several issues that needs to be fixed but the biggest issue I believe is accessibility. I believe accessibility is a big problem within the health care industry because its not easy for all Americans to get access of. In 2019 the uninsured population may increase to 65.7 million people or 23.2% of the population In the United States of American the population is growing which means the systems needs to get even bigger than what it is.…