Hundred Days' Reform

a system that is falling behind by international standards. Rickwood et al states that headspace is reaching the targeted demographics regardless of Jorms claims (Rickwood et al., 2014); however, Jorm is adamant Australia does need a mental health reform. The rest of Jorm’s article is supported by the research conducted by Rutherford et al and Rickwood et al until such time as more in depth external analysis of headspace is conducted to prove the overall effectiveness in treating Australia’s…

Out of all of the leading countries America has become one of the last to offer universal health care. Obamacare, which is the nickname for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), was approved in 2010 (Schacht, 2015). The last five years since Obamacare was created has shown how difficult it is to bring affordable health care into the U.S. I believe the idea of everyone having universal health care is an amazing concept and a human right; however as we have seen, can come with…

Social Problem: Men do not have equal reproductive health coverage compared to women under the ACA Neo-conservative The government is at fault for the ACA coverage gap in reproductive health care between women and men. The government interfered with the health insurance market and distorted market forces by doing so. This is a social problem for American citizens and insurance companies who are forced to participate in the implementation of the ACA. Individuals are being impacted because they…

eventually medical attention. This distinguishment was immeasurably valuable to the future of mental health institutions across the world. The tireless efforts of Dorothea Dix will forever be hailed as one of the greatest accomplishments in social reform in American…

Eastern Health also has an extensive organisational personal structure, which works within the Health Services Act 1988, the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission and the new Mental Health Act 2014 (Eastern Health-Organisational Structure, 2014: Chief Parliamentary Counsel, 2012; Dwyer & Eagar, 2008: State Victorian Government, 2014). Structure Eastern Health’s organisational structure is extensive…

For 86% of Americans, health care as they know it will not be changed. The Affordable Care Act, arguably President Obama’s largest achievement in office, has faced much backfire, both with lack of support, as well as raised issues of Constitutionality. This being said, Obamacare has been implemented and now has goals to be fully functional by the year 2016. Many Americans did not know how this change in national health care effects them, which is why many people are against it, simply because…

The article, “Health Care Access, Use of Services, and Experiences among Undocumented Mexicans and other Latinos,” by Alexander Ortega (2014), compares access, use, and experiences with health care services. The author says that the Mexicans without proper authorization or citizenship have few visits to physicians compared to those that are US-born. Similar results were found among the Latinos who were undocumented. The reason why the undocumented immigrants were not willing to pay physicians…

Introduction: What is the Health Care Reform Bill Act and how did it come into existence? In March of 2010, President Obama signed into law the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which is normally known as Obamacare is an endeavor at Health Care reform. Healthcare reform is thought to be required due to soaring costs, low quality of care, Americans lacking medical coverage and to put a stop to healthcare fraud (Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs , 2014). In this paper I will discuss the ACA…

Marcia Clemmit said, “For the first time in history, the law establishes access to affordable health care as a national responsibility, with the great bulk of the dollars coming from taxpayers to fund the coverage expansion.” Since the 2012 elections, Obama has pushed for universal health care nationwide. President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly called “Obamacare,” in March of 2010, and was designed to take effect January 1st, 2014. (Barr, 27) The way…

Many believe the United States is on the edge of national healthcare reform. Healthcare cost seems to be unreasonable while 46 million American are uninsured. In the early 1900s proposals began to surface. In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt’s Bull Mosse party campaigned for health insurance. Moving to today’s day and age President Obama extends the state children’s Health Insurance program through 2013 and created the Obama care in with all citizens…