Reform movement

Marcia Clemmit said, “For the first time in history, the law establishes access to affordable health care as a national responsibility, with the great bulk of the dollars coming from taxpayers to fund the coverage expansion.” Since the 2012 elections, Obama has pushed for universal health care nationwide. President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly called “Obamacare,” in March of 2010, and was designed to take effect January 1st, 2014. (Barr, 27) The way…

Many believe the United States is on the edge of national healthcare reform. Healthcare cost seems to be unreasonable while 46 million American are uninsured. In the early 1900s proposals began to surface. In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt’s Bull Mosse party campaigned for health insurance. Moving to today’s day and age President…

Union, Turkey’s healthcare system is continually seeking to become more like a European system. The healthcare reform, or what is also known as the Health Transformation Program, is continuing to change healthcare and improve the health conditions in Turkey. “People first” is the new slogan of the program emphasizing the need for the patient to come first and foremost. Through the reform program, the MoH has been and is continuing to be re-evaluated and restructured to better suit the health…

The United States is a wealthy nation, yet there are millions of Americans who cannot afford adequate healthcare. The current healthcare system uses a tremendous amount of money, yet is grossly inefficient. There is only one practical solution to this escalating problem; The U.S. needs to replace its current private healthcare system with a universal healthcare program due to its benefits in cost, availability to all and increased efficiency. Americans (under 65 years old) fall into one of…

Every country’s vision is to have a universal health care system. A system that is not necessarily “free” but a system where everyone has equal opportunity to get the best health care being offered without partiality. Canada successfully implemented the universal health care for its citizens, but it is not perfect in any sense. Individual citizens are provided with preventive care and medical treatment from primary care physicians as well as access to hospitals, dental surgery and additional…

the nation, but around the world. When Henry Chauncey, inspired by the first Sputnik’s launch, traveled repeatedly to the Soviet Union to study its education system, it was viewed as a revolutionary (no pun intended) approach to science education reform. Today, commonly referred to as “edu-tourism”, such practice is widespread within the European Union. For instance, some high schools in Finland get visitors so frequently, the education ministry had to designate full-time staff handling…

It is no question that India is a developing country of great diversity. As the second most populous country in the world with 1.25 billion people, home to more than twenty official languages and several major religions of the world, the multiplicity of India seems endless. However, as one delves deeper into the country of India, one may find disparaging inequality among the population, especially in the health sector. One may just imagine how immense of a task it is for the federal democracy of…

Japan is located on the east coast of Asia that consists of over 6,852 islands with four main islands: Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku (“Japan’s Geography,” 2014). Almost 80% of Japan’s population lives on Honshu Island (“Where is Japan,” 2012). Japan is the sixty-second largest country based on the area measurement, and it is comparable to the state of California. It consists of a coastline, which is 29,751 kilometers in length without any land boundary (“Where is Japan,” 2014). The…

filled with their ideas on what patients, doctors, insurance companies, and the government should do to fix the issues. Gruber Gruber uses a comic book style of writing to simplistically explain issues within health care, and how recent health care reform might help address some of the issues. He uses 4 relatable…

known as Obamacare, was implemented on March 23, 2010. The Affordable Care Act is meant to “provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in healthcare spending, and for other purposes” (“Health Care Reform Timeline”). The plan is to reform and rebuild the national health care system. The health care system must be reformed because millions of people are without health insurance since it is too expensive. Many drug prescriptions are not affordable, leaving many…