Health insurance in the United States

providers with the necessary tools to facilitate the sharing of healthcare information that leads to a more active role of the patient in managing their own healthcare and making well informed decisions about their care choices. In addition, public health initiatives will be enhanced by the influx of massive amounts of aggregated data that can…

According to the World Bank (2014), the United States spent 17.9% of its gross domestic product on healthcare in 2012. In dollars, this represents approximately $3.8 trillion spent in this country on healthcare. This astronomical figure might be acceptable if the country enjoyed the best health outcomes in the world; however, according to the World Health Organization the United States health system ranks 37th of the surveyed countries worldwide (Colorado State University-Global Campus, 2014).…

Silver Water by Amy Bloom strives to illustrate the inadequacies within the American health-care system as well as the negative impact they have on families. The girl who the novel is centered around, Rose, is the elder of two sisters. When her and Violet, her little sister, were girls they were extremely close, and violet had deep admiration for Rose. However, during their adolescence everything changed Rose lost touch with reality, and she lost all mental stability to the point that she…

Many healthcare facilities do not accept Medicare, or they limit the number of medicare patients that they will treat. This is because Medicare pays the doctors of those facilities a lot less than they would get from a normal patient not with Medicare. Because they make less from doing the same work, they decide to make themselves less accessible to these patients with Medicare. Doctors that actually do provide for Medicare are paid these pre-determined fees for each task, and therefore it…

There are many challenges that affect the direction of health care today. Proposed health care reform and legislation, accreditation, quality of healthcare, and organizational compliance, economics, including third party payers, future funding, rising costs, the Medicare and Medicaid programs, access to health care including the uninsured and those in poverty and the elderly, and maintaining a skilled workforce have created many obstacles for providers (Ashford, 2016). Healthcare reform and…

have different opinions about our cultures. Even though we all come from diverse backgrounds we all encounter this same issue daily where we are all prejudged because our families come from a specific background. All of us were raised in the United States for the clear majority of our lives except for Tenzin who recently moved here a few years ago from Tibet. Many other ethnic groups categorize the Tibetan people to either be Chinese or Japanese since they are a minority group in this very…

Health care is something that everyone will need at some point in their lifetime. Unfortunately, the cost of health care continues to rise with no end in sight. Researchers have looked at many different angles to try and determined if they can pinpoint a cause. The article “Surge continues in US health-care spending” by Daniel S. Greenberg talks about cost and premiums of health insurance. A second article by Curtis S. Florence, Peter Joski, and Kenneth E. Thorpe, “Which Medical Conditions…

In this didactic piece Canadian Medicare: We Need It and We Can Keep It by Duckett and Peetoom, the authors delved into aspects of Canadian medicare that need to be refurbished to ensure the system remains sustainable. The book describes medicare in the past and how healthcare around it has changed, inevitably meaning medicare needs changes as well. The main goal the authors depict for medicare is the idea that “the right person enables the right care in the right setting, on time, every time”…

The United States differs in an approach to healthcare as compared to other developed countries considering healthcare costs, medical care and access to healthcare. Health Insurance is defined as a type of insurance coverage that pays for medical and surgical expenses that are incurred by the insured. Based on a country’s healthcare philosophy, the insurance could either be social or government financed national health insurance depending on the cultural attitude and source of healthcare…

provides health care to all their citizens they have very few appointment requirements and a relatively low cost (Health Care: The Difference…, n.d.). It would cost about $20 or $30 to see a physician even if a person did not have health insurance (Health Care: The Difference…, n.d). The cost is “controlled by a government-imposed national fee schedule, which limit how much physicians can charge their patients” (Cooper & Taylor, n.d.). This compares to the United states where health insurance is…