Uninsured in the United States

composed by 150 members of the House of Representatives and by 31 members of the state senate. The House of Representatives are elected for two-year terms (represented by districts of about 166,000) and the Senators, who serve for four-year terms and serve about 800,000 people per Senator. They meet every odd-numbered year biannually. These meetings are held with the purpose of writing new laws and to solve issues of the state. This meting last 140 days and begins on the second Tuesday in…

There are 55 million Hispanic in the United States as of July 1, 2014, making people of Hispanic origin the nation 's largest ethnic or racial minority. Hispanics constituted 17 percent of the nation 's total population, not only that but, the United State has the highest percentage of teen pregnancy birth rates ages 15- 19 than any other country in the world. The US is home to many people of ethnicity/race, then any other part of the world, but among all those people, one particular group has…

many Americans on Medicaid the government is seeing abuse with the emergency room." Medicaid patients feel that their insurance card entitles them to health care anytime they want it". Also, the United States emergency rooms are overflowing at alarming rates." The number of emergency rooms in the United States has declined more than 10% over the past decade at a time when more are needed". With a overflow of non-urgent patients, they interfere with the triage and care of urgent patients with…

American clinics. Americans that don’t have private health care this coming year are looking at a 25% increase, leaving an abundance of uninsured that will be at risk of going bankrupt if any major medical bills arise. Given these points, President Obama and his administration have disappointed and failed the American populace. The United States citizens put faith in his words that he would bring change to this country in our time of need. Instead of change he brought a feeling of…

Hurricane Harvey took place on the 25th of August and ended on the 2nd of September 2017. Harvey reached up to category 4 and was the first major hurricane to occur in Texas and the rest of the United States since hurricane Wilma hit Texas in 2005, therefore hurricane Harvey ended a record 12-year drought in Texas. Hurricane Harvey didn’t just destroy the land in Texas, but the people within, their homes and businesses. According to Wikipedia (2017): Harvey has caused over $70 billion worth of…

Tax Paying, Undocumented Immigrants, Should be Able to Purchase Health Insurance It is estimated that about 11.2 million Undocumented Immigrants live in the United States, about 728,000 of these individuals are Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients (Castaneda, R., 2016). Under the Affordable Care Act, these are individuals that can qualify for health insurance, but due to the Affordable Care Act, section 1312 (f) (c), undocumented immigrants are not allowed to purchase…

The United States is considered to be one of the richest countries in the world, but is lacking in how many Americans actually receive quality access of care and many Americans can’t afford health insurance at all. In 2012, 47.3 million people in the U.S. under age 65 lacked health insurance. This is largely related to the increasing costs, lack of access and concerns about the quality of healthcare. The majority of these uninsured were working families who can’t afford or don’t have access to…

corrupt the overall litigation. Although most would assume corruption has been around forever. Litigation has a lot of disadvantages being very costly and more time consuming. This brings me to the next topic, in reference of health care reform the United States and Canadian system are very different compared to their multiplayer system. The Canadian system is often viewed as more acceptable possible model for the U.S. although similar as I stated they are very different. Canada is based on a…

According to Medical schools and teaching hospitals, the United States faces a shortage of physicians by 2025. The poor distribution of physicians leads with too many in rich areas and too few in poor rural communities. The shortage of primary care physicians require surgeons especially those who treat disease more common to older people such as cancer. Also, the country needs specialties to treat an aging population that will live with chronic disease growingly. As we know many Americans have…

strives for the betterment of man. His view on inequality and injustice demonstrate that his state of nature is different from Thomas Hobbs. He points out that the state of nature of man is not evil like Hobbs might suggest, but he proposes that man is neither good nor evil but is born sub-moral . As our focus on the self and the arts become bigger than our focus on virtue and morality, we leave that state of sub-morality. Looking at the high levels of inequality taking place in our society,…