Healthcare reform

Haitian proverb “Mountains Beyond Mountains” is the title of the book written by Tracy Kidder about Paul Framer and his adventures through Haiti, Peru and Russia. Dr. Framer is a Harvard graduate physician and anthropologist. “Mountains Beyond Mountains” is an excellent title for the book because it not only shows Dr. Framer’s understanding of difficult, relentless work needed cure tuberculosis, but also that once one obstacle is accomplished another one is sight already, hence hard work must…

only then, being legal. The discrimination affects the minority population not only the African Americans but also the colored people. Despite the efforts to reduce segregation the one area that seems to have received low attention was quality of healthcare and/or access to it. This articles seeks to explicate the reasons why African Americans and other colored people are not insured in the health care. Most of the African American people do not have access to health care because of their…

ways of thought regarding the role of government. This transition from Progressivism to conservatism was one of the leading dynamics of the 1920s. Although the middle and late 1920s saw a resurgence of conservative thought, Progressive ideas about reform would continue into the early 1920s. Grassroots campaigns by the newly formed League of Women Voters, along with a variety of other women’s clubs and Progressive organizations, seized the message of military preparedness. They sought to convince…

It’s tax season again, which seems an even colder season than winter for many of us. Physicians, especially, can feel a chill in the air this time of year as they attempt in vain to get ready for April 15th. Between taking care of their patients and trying to stay compliant with so many initiatives, many doctors have little time to actually learn the basics of the tax codes that apply to them, and so they wind up getting involved in questionable investments and “tax shelters” to, in the end,…

Healthcare has been at the forefront of confrontation for centuries. From the first implementation of the U.S Marine Hospital in 1798 to the execution of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) in its current state, the questions of who will pay, who will have access and what is going to be the quality of care remains a challenge. Healthcare as we know will always come at a cost. Someone will need to pay for the services rendered as nothing is free. How much you pay, often speaks to the…

I am beyond frustrated watching the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee interview Governor Rick Snyder and the EPA official, Ms. McCarthy on C-span. I watched as state government officials, mainly Gov. Rick Snyder, try to toss the EPA advisors under the bus. Between the two of them, they went back and forth playing the blame game. It was as though there was no one taking accountability. The thing that infuriates me beyond all reason is the fact that the Governor is using Michigan…

A professor of bioethics, Peter Singer, published an article in The New York Times Magazine, arguing his “solution” to poverty. He claims that what money you’re currently spending on luxuries should be given to those who need need food, medicine, and other basic life necessities. The issue of poverty is so complex, however, that every solution has pros and cons. In Singer’s solution though, the cons outweigh the pros. Obviously, most people would take any opportunity to help out a fellow man who…

getting sick or getting injured, but when they do they have to find affordable ways to seek care. Around the world, one might find that healthcare is presented in various ways in different countries. For example, the health care in the United States and the health care in Canada. These two counties are not easily compared, they are different in the way healthcare is funded, the population it is being delivered to, health outcomes, and health care resources. Starting in 1968, the federal…

In the United States, the financing of the health services system is extremely expensive. The most dramatic change in the financing of the health services system was the Affordable Care Act, which made the most current and largest change in the nation’s health care financing system. “The United States system of financing health care is quite distinct from those used in other developed nations; most other developed countries have a system that involves a set of services to which every citizen is…

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, eight out of the ten highest-paying occupations in 2016 were some type of physician. The expenses and many years of schooling, along with the importance of these professions, are what justify a physician's large paycheck. Physicians can have very stressful jobs and hectic work schedules. On a typical day, doctors work in hospitals to examine patients, take medical histories, prescribe medications, and treat or assuage the pain of the ill and injured.…