Medicare

The solution I agree to the most is the National health insurance. I believe that with the National health insurance in which government health coverage for all citizens is a good solution because a lot of people do not cure their sickness due to not having insurance. They do not have insurance due to the lacks money that they make because of their social class. A factor of not having insurance they do not get to go to the doctor to get cure which then allows for the consequences to be deadly.…

Nursing from the 1900’s to now It all started as a sick person taking care of another person. As civilization appeared in Europe nurses used to be under the direction of the priest –physician. It used to be thought that the sick were caused by evil and sin. The Christians came along and introduced the first nurse a Deaconess named Phoebe a practical nurse to Rome. She was the first visiting nurse. As time went by the services in England changed with the break of King Henry VIII. The nuns and…

Gerontologists refer to young old people as 65 years old age to 74 years of age (Novak 34). As for people who are 75 years old to 85 years old, are considered old-old. People who are 85 years and older are considered the oldest-old. These oldest-old people are different from the elderly population in many ways. A few differences include, lower incomes, multiple chronic conditions, and are growing to be biggest population among the elderly age groups. The geriatric population is growing and…

cost and affordable health insurance for over 15 million previously uninsured Americans with low income but it damages the health care industry overtime. This is because by providing cheap Medicare, the health care sector would run low on profits and funds. The Obama Care act dictates a $716 billion cut on Medicare funds in the next 10 years. But in order to fix this problem an increase in tax would be placed on health providers and beneficiaries whose funds have been cut, which in turn would…

Nursing homes have been growing more and more popular since the 1930’s. A Nursing home is a facility that provides skilled nursing care to people with illness, injuries or functional disabilities. Good nursing homes provide services not only to improve someone’s health but also take on emotional aspects as well. Just about 6 percent of older adults are placed in residential facilities that provide a wide range of care. A lot of elders live alone nowadays and many of them are not in good…

care. From the government’s point of view, the Medicare/ Medicaid statutes authorize payment only for medically necessary care and impose criminal/civil for claims that are medically unnecessary.…

Program said, "H.R. 676 establishes a unique American universal health insurance program with single-payer financing. The bill would create a publicly financed, privately delivered health care system that improves and expands the already existing Medicare program to all U.S. residents, and all residents living in U.S. territories." The goal of House Bill HR676 is to guarantee all Americans the chance to have the best quality of health care possible, and additionally to ensure that no financial…

As the society changes, the nursing practice must change to meet the growing needs of the society. Nursing has come a long way from the founder Florence Nightingale who established the first nursing training school in London in 1860 (Black 2014). During and after the American Civil War the need to train nurses to care for the sick and wounded soldiers became essential. Through this surfaced a leader, Dorothea Dix, and 3 nursing schools that molded the Nightingale school in England (Black 2014).…

discussed in the Facility Quality Indicator Profile Report, Nursing Homes comparison report, and on the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Quality Measure Report (Castle, Ferguson, 2010). The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is a federal government health insurance program. In the long term care/nursing home setting, a Five Star rating from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS) is…

Baby Boomers and Ageism: Will There Be a Storm? In the article, “The Future of Ageism: Baby Boomers at the Doorstep”, by Charles Longino, he depicts the negative affects of ageism and the impact that baby boomers impending retirement and Medicare will have on society. The term ageism was coined by Robert Neil Butler (1969), it describes the stereotyping and discrimination against a single person or a group based solely on their age (seniors). While the immense population of baby boomers (those…