Hundred Days' Reform

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), universal health care is a service in which every citizen no matter their financial hardships and demographics can receive (Pros and Cons, 2017). I believe that everyone in the US should have healthcare whether their financial status, citizen status, age, gender, race, or living situation is jeopardized. A lot of health care plans in the United States are based on working status, but sometimes jobs are not guaranteed. In the US insurance is…

According to the article, I believe the cost should be equally spread across the board among rich and poor nation. When it comes on to a cheaper price I believe the government of the host nation should subside the cost of demanding drugs. It makes perfect sense for government to play a critical role in the cost reduction expensive drugs. Why should the United States of America suck up all of the cost for a expensive drug while other country pay nominal amount that’s outright not fair to the…

over the long haul. Preventative Care is Cheaper Than Corrections All preventative care procedures are less expensive than their counterparts. For instance, a patient can come in for a dental filling that even without insurance may run only a few hundred dollars at the maximum. If that patient waits a few years, instead of a filling, they will need a root canal, costing up to thousands of dollars depending…

Once every four years’ American citizens who are at least 18 years old vote for President of the United States. The candidate who receives the most Electoral College vote wins. A President cannot serve more than two terms or eight years. President Obama was elected as the 44th President of the United States in 2008 (“Barack Obama”). According to “Barack Obama” he was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961. Based upon his education, health care, and civil rights policies, President Obama was a…

There a plenty of reimbursement models. Not all reimbursement models fit each health care situation or health care setting. Sometimes reimbursement arrangements or models with providers include some combination of different repayment methods. There are key differences in each reimbursement model. Each reimbursement model has types of care that are parallel or work together. According to Kongstvedt (2009), “At a simplistic level there are two basic ways to compensate open panel physicians for…

In the world, there are a lot of things that can respond our need. However, in our life, there are just only four things that are necessary, namely Food, Accommodation, Clothes and Medicine. All of them called Four requisites. Nowadays, we face several pollutants that make an effect on our health. Therefore, most of the people began to pay attention to their health. The government tried to make a policy to support the people and one of the solution is The universal health care. They hold a view…

Single Party Payer System & U.S. Healthcare System In 1965, the Medicare and Medicaid systems, which insure senior citizens and people whose earnings fall under the poverty line, were enacted by President Lyndon Johnson (WHO and Schallhorn, September 2017). This created a large federal healthcare system that covers millions of Americans. The single party payer system and the US Healthcare System ideology are very similar. Both will be mainly funded by the U.S. government. Although there are…

During the summer of 1996, the United States Government passed an act that would forever change the healthcare system. This was the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Here we discuss the great impact HIPAA has had on the healthcare industry over the years, emphasizing both positive and negative effects. Every time you walk into the doctor's office, do you stop to think whether or not your health information can be shared with other individuals? Luckily for you, you are…

Accountable care organization is described as an organized group of providers that coordinates the care for designated beneficiaries in the traditional Medicare fee for service program. Who are the members of the ACO? According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, members of ACO are a group of doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare providers who volunteer to coordinate quality care especially to elderly. ACO focuses more on chronic conditions that involve high cost (Kongstvedt P…

In January 2011, 19 orthopedists affiliated with six independent orthopaedic practices in Berks County merged to form Keystone. Orthopaedic Associates was one of those practices. There were five others as well. In the Federal Register, the FTC calls each of those five practices "Keystone component practices." Each of them became divisions of Keystone after the merger. Prior to the merger, orthopaedic competition in Berks County was robust. Prior to the merger, there were 25 orthopods in 11…