Immigration reform

Introduction The Healthcare Industry, with global health spending to increase at a rate of 5.3% per year for next four years(2014-17)[1], is one of the biggest industries. Despite of the high growth rate, there is an enormous pressure on healthcare providers due to high costs, government regulations, increasing competition, and requirement of delivering higher quality services. In this industry, supply chain costs constitute a significant fraction of the total costs. Further, its Supply chain…

Healthcare accessibility at “Bottom of the Pyramid”: A study of scope of eHealth in India Introduction According to World Health Organization (WHO) World Health Statistics 2013, India has a ratio of 6.5 doctors, 10 nurses and 9 beds per 10,000 people compared to the global average is of 13.9 doctors, 29 nurses and 30 beds. In order to meet the healthcare requirement of its population of 1.25 billion, India needs an additional 1.54 million doctors, 2.4 million nurses and 2.6 million beds. At the…

Background Health inequality in America cannot be fixed by spending more money on health care. It is suggested that taking care of ourselves by creating healthier communities to create healthier lives is the best way to build a healthier America. The article indicates that a person’s Zip code is a greater determining factor of poor health and life expectancy than a person’s DNA is. Another main focus is that getting good quality care is not always the key to living a long-healthy life,…

healthcare. Aetna also has multiple subsidiaries including Aetna Specialty Pharmacy, the Chickering Group, Aetna Global Benefits, and Active Health just to name a few. Insurers compete over membership, prices, and offerings. Recent Health Care Reform significantly increased the number of individuals looking for insurance; however, the government did place limitations on the prices insurance companies can charge. Getting the right quantity of members mixed with the right quality of…

In the 1930s, only 12% of all live births were of blacks, only 17% of these births took place in a hospital. Times were hard for everyone, especially the blacks. Many could not afford to go to a hospital, and if they did, the quality of that hospital was normally not very good. That 12% were born into a society where they were the misfits, the rejects, the unwanted. They would always be looked down upon, segregated, and hurt with words and actions. The only reason for their extra pain was that…

Orphan drugs under normal market circumstances would not be produced by the pharmaceutical companies due to the expense incurred and potentiality of financial loss due to low levels of sales. Orphan drugs are created to treat, prevent, and diagnose rare diseases with a prevalence of less than 5 in 10,000 per community. An Orphan medicinal product must show an enhanced therapeutic benefit over existing treatments against rare life threatening or debilitating diseases. An orphan drug is not a rare…

health care. There have been many fluctuations in the health care system ever since and there continues to be arguments for and against this legislation. This paper will review the pros and cons of this act and look at the principles of health care reform that are embedded in the PPACA legislation. Improvement or Liability The question that looms in the air right now centers on: is the PPACA legislation an improvement or liability to the health care system? Improvements can be seen in the new…

healthcare system that could potentially lower the cost of health insurance while delivering the highest quality healthcare at rates that people could afford? The introduction of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has implemented several health care reforms that aim to expand coverage and increase health care access. The establishment of the Obama Care (ACA) has lowered the percentage of uninsured Americans, and reduced the costs of health care for many, but not all Americans. In order to improve the…

significant reform to the U.S health care system since Medicaid and Medicare. Some view it as a great and some believe it will be bad for the economy. I believe the Affordable Care Act will be great and its benefit to the well-being of citizens and will go further to be a great reform over all. On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law. The Obama health care has received mixed reviews over the last couple years. It has put in place comprehensive reforms that…

“Ewwww… she looks gross. So not natural.” “Her feet are only 3 inches long! How can she walk?” “Her head is way too big for her neck. She looks freaky.” These and many other comments could be heard as students put the finishing touches on their life-sized Barbie. As part of a Project-Based Social Justice Mathematics (PB-SJM) pedagogy, students investigated body image as portrayed by childhood toys by scaling Barbie dolls to their height (Mukhopadhyay, 2014). Students used the concept of…