Hospice care in the United States

Learning Check Question 1 The culture and industry of the United States health care system are harmful to its citizen’s wellness and health due to: special interest groups influence and disregard of human life for profits; lack of affordable health care; and cultural and environmental factors. First, as depicted in the movie, “Obama’s Deal”, there is a blatant lack of consideration and compassion for the pubic on the part of the insurance and pharmaceutical companies (Frontline, 2010). The…

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…

The rising healthcare costs continue to be a problem in the Unites States. A major factor is the increased spending on prescription medications. This issue remains heavily debated in the political arena and in healthcare. In the United States people pay the highest cost for prescription medications in the world despite income levels or insurance coverage. The difference in prices is enormous compared to other countries such as France, Switzerland, Japan, Canada, and Germany. This problem is…

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” (p. 50). The authors drew on many different points to support this goal as well as offer ideas on ways to adjust medicare . With favourable ideas on aspects of medicare that needs change as well as…

Hospice care has been around longer than one may think. It can be traced back as far as medieval times. The word hospice came from the root word ‘hospitality’ and became known as simply ‘hospice’ in the 1800s and more accordingly was used to describe caring for dying patients. In the beginning a hospice was a place for ill or tired travelers to rest. It became what we now know them as after a physician by the name of Dame Cicely Saunders began working with people with terminal illnesses. She…

Even though hospice providers feel they are providing compassionate care for patients in the end stages of life by focusing on pain management, and emotional and spiritual support, they should not be allowed to deceive the government, hospice employees, or the terminally ill and their families. The goal for most hospice providers is to keep the patient census high so Medicare and Medicaid can be billed for millions, and the owners of these companies can maintain their affluent lifestyles. At…

atmosphere across the United States of America, keeping prisoners into their later years. Furthermore, Penrod, et al (2014) states that due to the length of stay, prisoner with chronic and serious sickness require the most basic of healthcare. Therefore, the goal of effective hospice or palliative care is to provide physical, psychological, social and spiritual care to the inmates with life-restraining conditions as referenced by Stone, et al (2012). In addition, Stone, et al (2012) states that…

Thesis Palliative/Hospice Care: Necessity or Extension of Healthcare: a topic chosen to obtain clarity of services, while questioning who is benefiting, patients or the healthcare system. I. Introduction: The Historical Roots of Hospice In Homeric times (8th century B.C.), all Greeks without exception were regarded as being under the protection of Zeus Xenios, the god of strangers and supplicants. A wanderer would be treated as a guest and offered food, shelter, clothing, and gifts…

million Medicare recipients, of those 53.5 million were recipients of Medicare Part A (NCPSSM, 2016). Those 53.5 million individuals qualify for receiving the Medicare Hospice Benefit (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 2016). With an older adult (65 and up) population continuously aging and growing, the need for end of life care continues to grow as well (US Department of Health and Human Services , 2015). According to Department of Health and Human Services, in the next forty- four…

in the United States. were under the care of a hospice program (National Hospice and Palliative Care Organizatoin, 2012, p. 4) Obermeyer, Powers, Makar, Keating, and Cutler assert that evidence suggests that hospice care is able to acknowledge and implement patients' needs and preferences at the end of life, decrease the cost of health care, and improve quality of life and care experiences for families and patients (Obermeyer, Powers, Makar, Keating & Cutler, 2015). Medicare funded hospice…