Healthcare reform

Texas Issue The most important issue facing Texas today is Health Care because the Health and Human services make up the second biggest part of the Texas budget. Despite the billions of dollars spent, Texas remains the state with the highest proportion of uninsured in the country, at about 24 percent. In fact, 4.3 million Texans including 623,000 children lack health insurance. Texans rates, 1.75 times the national average, create significant problems in financing and delivery of health…

People today are spending too much money on health care. If everybody had health care then we wouldn’t have to spend too much money on health care. I know this because “ The US spends more on healthcare per capita than any other member nation.” (1) This shows America is spending too much money on healthcare than any other nation. This connects back to my thesis because it shows that if everybody had health are then everybody wouldn’t need to spend so much money on health care. Most jobs don't…

Medical Advantage Plans There are many different types of insurance companies and different ways to pay health care providers. Choosing the appropriate health plan to fit your needs is where the work comes in. Choosing between fee-for-service, HMO’s, and PPO’s, is where it starts with Medicare advantage plans. Fee-for-service plans are when the provider is paid a set amount for each service provided according to his list of charges, also known as the fee schedule. There is no copay included.…

This will be the single most important piece of information to read when it comes to health. The contents provided is enough to save lives; literally. The brain is an amazing organ that not only controls the entire body’s functions; it also has the ability to heal its host body. In today’s society, developing countries such as the U.S., are bombarded with quick fix medications and foreign elements in the form of pills and injections. Not only does this interfere with humanity’s natural…

In reflecting on these questions in the context of what we’ve read and heard in lectures this week, I’m struck by the nature of how we make choices in meeting our healthcare needs as a nation. Ever since our political leaders applied the principles of federalism to their earliest policy-setting efforts, we’ve had counter-balancing factions line up on virtually every aspect of care, from the training of our physicians, to our investments in facilities and technology, how we cover the costs of…

Justice, comes into effect with all the other principles, ensuring fairness and equality for everyone. It is very essential to health care, as its obligation is to ensure fairness when it comes to costs, treatments, and disbursements. The justice principle is quite contradictory. The main characteristic is to ensure fairness. Arguments arise that this principle only works for the benefits of the wealthy. There are many disparities as questions have been raised as to the uninsured and the…

On the other side of the ledger we find that consumers may also drive up the price for health care through overutilization, also known as moral hazard. Moral hazard arises from the idea that if consumers have too much health insurance, then they will use medical services excessively, or increase their likelihood of engaging in risky behavior. To offset this incentive to take on extra health risks or to use medical services excessively, insurance providers and others have implemented co-pays for…

The rising cost of health care can be reduced by aggressively regulating health care prices. The US and France can reduce health care spending by a substantial amount by regulating health care prices, as done by Japan. The central government of Japan determines the maximum prices for health services which keeps total health spending growth within a target set. Its national fee schedule is revised by a panel of experts using volume projections. Along with the price control, Japan also monitors…

was signed to become one of the U.S. federal statutes on March 2010, and it was meant to change and help in the development of the healthcare system in the country (eHealth, 2016). The mission of the law was to ensure that hospitals and the primary physicians have transformed their practices in regards to finances, technology and clinical matters for better healthcare services that are motivated by lower cost and better distribution…

1. If I had the option to choose, I would prefer a free open source software eHealth system. First and foremost, Dr. Borland states in lecture that a FOSS eHealth system, “may force governments such as the province of Ontario, to abandon the specialized proprietary software systems” (Borland, 2017). Abandoning the proprietary system that the Harper government created would decrease the amount that we, as Ontarians, are paying in taxes. Our taxdollars would no longer be needed to pay for the…