Hundred Days' Reform

“Iron triangle of health care” are access, quality and cost. Access to health care is a moral and economic issue to the society. Million Americans are uninsured or underinsured, which means they have very limited access to medical help. The Health reform tried to improve access to care by opening the doors to insurance coverage for more of them. But experts are measuring systems, not personal experiences. Seems to me, when measuring accessibility, we have to include in the equation the time…

Medicine is considered as one of the most important necessity to medical care. Adherence to medication is a pivotal part of patient health care, for achieving pharmacotherapy out come and clinical goals. The World Health Organization defines Medication adherence as “the extent to which the persons’ behavior (including medication taking) corresponds with agreed recommendation from a healthcare provider”. And the Non adherence means opposite to this scenario. In some studies, Non adherence is…

Research the case of Stella Liebeck, an elderly grandmother who received third-degree burns when she spilled coffee purchased at a McDonald’s drive-through. What was the basis of her claim against McDonald's? The basis of Liebeck claims was that she was severally injured after purchasing a cup of coffee through the Mc Donald’s drive thru in Albuquerque, New Mexico on February 27, 1992. Furthermore, the cup of coffee was served by Mc Donald’s and was given to her dangerously hot, which caused…

compensate and support these elevated drug costs via increasing premiums (“The high prices of prescription drugs,” n.d.). Digging deeper in the mindset of the drug companies, they exploit the blend of regulations that oblige insurance companies to incorporate fundamentally all of the costly medications in their policies (“The high prices of prescription drugs,” n.d.). They also use the logic and mantra that really stipulates that each novel health care good be accessible to the masses (“The high…

FACTS YOU PROBABLY NEVER KNEW ABOUT PUBLIC ADJUSTERS Insurance adjusters are people who are hired to help an insured fill in insurance claim after a disaster, for example road carnage, fire breakout, robbery among others. There are three categories of insurance adjusters namely; staff adjusters, independent adjusters and public adjusters. The main difference between them is who hires them. Staff adjusters are officially employed and paid by an insurance company. Independent adjusters are…

The role of private management in Medicare has grown rapidly in recent years. The health insurance advocacy center has broadly stated the dangers of turning these successful community health programs into profit-driven private insurance companies. However, despite efforts by the center and other advocacy groups, privatization continues. Many regions - including Illinois, Florida and south Carolina - recently concluded all or most of their Medicare services. The only cost control and care…

Part of British people will be against the current health services in the United Kingdom, this people have opinion that privatisation is the best way for health care. At these days in the United Kingdom most healthcare is provided by the National Health Services (NHS). The NHS were founded in nineteen forty eight, in the beginning doctors, pharmacists, hospitals, nurses, opticians and dentists were together in one organisation to provide free services for people. The major rule that all can get…

The government should NOT provide free healthcare. Free healthcare is a plan to increase taxes and would not help the financing of this country. It is also too ambitious and would be very hard to regulate. In the past free healthcare has been exploited by patient and Doctor. In the chapter Night Doctors the Lacks family doesn’t trust Hopkins because they allegedly stole African Americans in the night to do experiments (Skloot 165). Hospitals like this took advantage of poor and black people…

Emergency medical services are not just composed of 911 calls, there are different types of companies. The most common EMS is 911 they move the critically ill patients from one facility to another, and respond to medical emergencies ("What is EMS? Department of Health). According to the department of health the different type of services that are available are government EMS, the ambulances work alongside fire departments and police officers, but operate separately and are funded by the local or…

"It turns out that not all hypothyroid patients are the same." - Dr. Antonio Bianco (Chicago, IL) -- Antonio Bianco, MD, a leading expert on the thyroid gland, came to Rush University Medical Center two years ago to lead the creation of a comprehensive destination thyroid program combining top clinical and basic research with diagnostic, medical and surgical capabilities. (Photo Courtesy Rush University Medical Center) You could say he hit the ground running. In the past couple of years,…