Uninsured in the United States

28.2 million individuals are uninsured (Dan Mangan14 Feb 2017). Many people are not afforded the same rights to healthcare because they do not have coverage. National healthcare provides individuals with equal opportunity to all medical services needed to live the same quality of life as any other American. National healthcare should be practiced in the United States. First, healthcare is a right and not a privilege based on employment status…

Health Literacy in the Hispanic Community The United States Bureau of Census determined that more than half of the minority population is classified as functionally or marginally illiterate (Kutner et al, 2016). A major aspect of this problem is that recent immigrants know little or no English when they arrive to the United States (Kutner et al, 2006). The level of the English language that is known is limited to what is required to function in the workplace and community (Kutner et…

The times and events that took place during the Great Depression. The Great Depression lasted from 1929 to 1939, some events that caused or impacted the worst economic depression in he history of the united states have to do with stock market, bank failures, and even drought conditions. Due to my own personal research i have discovered reasons that historians and economists have cited. The stock market crash of 1929... many believe that this stock market crash on October 29th was one of the…

The Community and Walmart In almost every community in the United States, Walmart has taken take over sales with cut throat low prices, while paying its employees the bare minimum. The superstore does have some benefits like donating to causes and give communities millions in tax dollars. However, at what point can we say that Walmart's problems outweigh the bad for example; driving out local mom and pop businesses, low compensation for the workers, and the way employees are treated. Walmart…

The Hispanic community is growing in the United States. With this growth, in the Hispanic community, healthcare providers have had to change how to approach them. There are several things that can interfere with the care that is provided for them. When Hispanics arrive to this country, they are faced with many challenges. Hispanics face healthcare disparities due to language barriers, financial difficulties, and fear due to being undocumented. Hispanics face healthcare disparities due to…

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS, 2012) a subsidiary of the Department of Health and Human Services which is a federal agency of the United States of America that operate and monitor the states Medicare and Medicaid programs which was establish in 1965. According to King (2011) the intension of the Affordable Care Act is to increase accessible to insurance, increase growth of the buyer securities, emphasize prevention and health improvements, expand quality and system…

Should the United States of America use Nationalized Health Care? "Rights are not about giving you something for free; they are about protecting natural liberties from those who would take them away from you. For instance, the Second Amendment guarantees the right to bear arms. It does not however, say that you get guns for free if you don't have one." Many people all over the country are starting to think that the United States should provide nationalized health care, rather than paying for…

Health Care is a Right for All Americans Since the late 1800’s there has been a campaign in the United States for some form of universal health care for all US citizens. In the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s most developed countries have instituted some form of social or national insurance. In Europe, countries began their health care programs by a “compulsory sickness insurance” (Germany 1883), other countries such as Austria, Hungary, Norway, Britain, Russia, and the Netherlands instituted…

audience of my speech would be Americans who currently live in the United States. General Purpose: To persuade. Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience that Americans should have the right to free healthcare. Thesis; Even though free healthcare may be a proponent of socialism, no American citizen should go without healthcare. I. Introduction A. Attention Getter: According to healthcare.procon.org 47.9 million people in the United States did not have health insurance in 2012 according to…

My understanding of the state of affairs in the development of health policy in the United States is there have been some important policy innovations, most notably the establishment in the mid-1960s of the Medicare and Medicaid programs , but reformers advocating publicly-guaranteed universal health coverage have been continually disillusioned. So, in the spring of 2010 when President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act commonly known as ‘Obamacare’, a major piece of…