Healthcare reform

GHANA U-TURN TO THE IMF AND ASSOCIATED CONDITIONS. Introduction Ghana`s exit from the IMF in November 2006 came with great hope and high expectations. Many believed and thought that once Ghana had been able to come out of the IMF share, the country will be able to sustain it growth and prosperity. These hopes were however short lived, as Ghana finds itself in the same web it had escaped from. Ghana went for USD$602 million loan from the IMF barely two years later. The reason why Ghana returns…

Free health care is known as a health care system that provides health care to all citizens of a particular country. According to the article “A Great Example of Why Everyone Should Have Health Coverage,” the author mentions that “Providing basic health care is the humane thing to do, and in the long run, it will be cost effective”(McClanahan, 2012). In fact, The World Health Organization(WHO) shows that 400 million people around the world do not have access to essential health services. However…

The issue of healthcare as a right brings Americans to a divide due to the fact that the right to good health, is not mentioned in any of our founding documents. This, indeed, makes healthcare as a right is a wicked problem. Life, liberty, and happiness, are all protected by the Declaration of Independence, as is the right to free speech, which is protected by the Constitution. However, our health is seemingly on its own, and therein lies the problem. Citizens are so mired in the literal…

like these are daunting, but, with an affordable healthcare program, we can avoid this scenario altogether. We, as a people, have a right to universal healthcare. The program that we have now is a private industry that is unprincipled and immoral. If we had universal healthcare, it could be a regulated, government-run program that would benefit the general public of the United States. Every American citizen deserves the right to an affordable healthcare program. The Constitution states that…

Sicko has opened my eyes to a side of private health insurance that I did not think about before watching this documentary. I am fortunate that I have health insurance and had not any serious medical conditions where I needed approval for treatments. I was shocked how American health insurance companies denied potential clients for absurd reasons such as height and weight requirements, pre-existing health conditions, and family history. In contrast, other countries such as Canada, France, and…

Health Care Cost Since 2014, health care spending have increased from 5.3 percent, $3.0 trillion, or $9,523 per person (CMS, 2014) to 5.5 percent in 2015, $3.1 trillion, or $9,695 per person (Luhby, 2015). The consistent increase on health care spending is expected to rise through the year 2024. In fact, between 2014 and 2024, health care spending is expected to increase to 5.8 percent, which is the highest percent of health spending in three decades (Luhby, 2015). By 2014, more than 19.1…

Young & Health (Y&H) is a Pasadena nonprofit organization that offers comprehensive health care to low-income school age children throughout the greater Pasadena who lack or have inadequate health insurance. Young & Healthy has over 350 health providers that volunteer their expertise for the organization and those who they serve. Those volunteers range from physicians, dentist, mental health and other professional health providers, who treat the children at their offices for free; donation their…

Our health is a huge part of our overall well-being. Good health means one less thing to worry about. But what if you were born with an incurable disease and you would have to live with it for the rest of your life? For example, say you were born with Sickle Cell Anemia, which, according to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute , is an inherited gene disorder causing your red blood cells to be sickle-shaped instead of disc-shaped. These cells could potentially block blood flow in any…

In her article “Lowering the Drinking Age Has Serious Consequences,” Tara Watson, an associate professor of economics and chairwoman of the Program in Public Health at Williams College, argues that if the drinking age were to be lowered, the consequences would be severe and even fatal. Although Watson presents a good argument, there are many flaws that come with it. I disagree with her article, not for the sole purpose of myself being a minor, but because there are legitimate reasons as to why…

Chris Gardner and his wife at the time, Linda, invested in a portable bone density scanner a medical device that gave a slightly better picture then what an x-ray could but in a price range it was double. What they didn’t know was they invested in the scanner while the doctors and hospitals stopped using them saying it was not necessary. This sent them into financial trouble as they put their life savings into this revolutionary machine. Linda had to work overtime and pick up extra shifts while…