Immigration reform

“To maintain, restore or improve health”, this is the goal of the German health care system.1 In order to strive to provide this care, Germany has a universal, multiple payer health care system which is divided into two major types of insurance: Statuary Health Insurance (SHI) and Private Health Insurance (PHI). The SHI is publically financed by independent, not for profit, non-government affiliated organizations. In addition, health insurance is compulsory for all legal residents in Germany.…

1.Socialize the EpiPen Summary: This article talks about EpiPens but also emphasizes the dysfunction of the American pharmaceutical system. One of the main problems specified in the article was the enormous price increase of EpiPens. Between 2007 and 2016 the price for a set of two EpiPens went from $100 to $600(Jacobin, Sept. 2, 2016). The company that sells the EpiPens is Mylan Pharmaceuticals, however they outsource to Pfizer’s Meridian Medical Technologies, which manufactures a whole…

wouldn’t dare enter into the ‘un-American’ practice of controlling prices and disrupting the free market. Reorganization managed care strategies were also attractive to the “pro-competitive” (Tuohy, p. 72) and pro-business principles of the US. The reforms “based on market principles rather than a profession-state accommodation” (p. 71) planned to incorporate large private entities that were part of the both the supply and demand side of the health care…

Disproportionate Share Hospitals (DHS) which once served as a safety net to the uninsured and underinsured is under threat to provide the population it was designed to help. Drastic budget cuts to this vital lifeline of the health care system could affect the health care needs of this vulnerable population. At the same time, there must be increased restrain to rein in the costs. We cannot talk about DSH, without first discussing the role of safety net hospital play in the healthcare system. Per…

In the Clinton health care reform case, the primary interest groups were the Big Five, Business Roundtable, National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), and Health Insurance Association of America (HIAA). The Big Five was the strongest supporter of the health care reform while the NFIB and HIAA were the strongest opponents of the proposal. The Business Roundtable was predictable to be favorable to the proposal; however, several members favored a newer proposal (Cooper-Gandy) which they…

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Electronic medical records not only have advantages. But there are also some challenges identified for the use of electronic medical records such as financial burden with the start of high system use, high maintenance costs and rising prices. According to PeterChris Okpala (2013), high start-up costs for obtaining electronic medical record systems. The cost of obtaining an electronic medical record system is from sixteen thousand dollars to thirtysix thousand dollars for each doctor. During the…

The Rising Cost of Health of Health Care in America Access to health care is a vital component in the health and well-being of a population. Individuals routinely allow symptoms of diseases or ailments go untreated due to a lack of health insurance. As stated by the Kaiser Foundation, one in five adults claim that they went without care in the past year because of cost. The country that has the highest spending on healthcare in the world is the United States. Approximately 17% of the gross…

3. Motivational factors for health workforce’s migration: There are many factors motivating Health workforces’ migration called pull and push factors. Push factors refer to the existing internal factors in the origin countries which drives the healthcare workers to migrate to better place for working (Cole 2017).These factors include economic factors such as poverty and few job and career opportunities. Furthermore, political factors such as political instability, poor policies and…

The Vblock drug not only decreases recovery time and requires less administration work, but also has no restrictions with being used alongside other drugs. Because Vblock and Nobarf are virtually identical when it comes to reducing nausea, the economic value of Vblock comes from the increase in time efficiency. Despite that, I would not charge a price equivalent to the economic value (to patients) because 1. it does not effectively capture the psychological values of the new drug (for instance,…