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Current Health Policy Debate regarding the Affordable Care Act

Introduction The health policy debate regarding ObamaCare focuses on the interest of average U.S citizens. The Affordable Care Act offers protection and benefits to all United States’ citizens regardless of their economic status and social lifestyle. The ACA seeks to reduce the insurance premiums to ensure the majority of average American families are covered. The law seeks to ensure 30 million of 44 million Americans without insurance get access to health coverage (ObamaCare, 2015). The government through the health insurance marketplaces, employers and Medicaid would ensure more Americans obtains health insurance coverage. The health law focuses on low-income Americans ...

In my everyday life we often face to face with the real problem with hypocrisy. By this reason scientists started to study this phenomenon. Among different articles about hypocrisy I have found an interesting correlational survey, which was done by group of scientists. They asked people to judge speaker`s degree of hypocrisy in case when they admit contradiction between their words and deeds. For example: “In my opinion it’s wrong idea to waste water, but I sometimes can do it.” It has been discovered that people think this case is not demonstration of hypocrisy. I suppose that ...

Abstract

The United States is currently embroiled in a debate on how healthcare should be structured. The Republicans have sworn to repeal the Affordable Care Act. On the other hand, more than 33 million people are not able to afford basic healthcare services, do not have medical covers, and most of them do not have proper employment (Atun, De Andrade, Almeida, Cotlear, Dmytraczenko, Frenz, & De Paula, 2015). Additionally, most middle-income earners cannot afford proper health insurance or afford to pay health care costs off their pockets. Essentially, this is best demonstrated by the high number of bankruptcies filed due to ...

Introduction

Racism is the ideology of racial inferiority/superiority at the individual, cultural, or institutional level that influences the perceptions and behavior of members of different racial groups towards others (Pieterse et al., 2011; Hoyt Jr., 2012). Research on the issue of racial prejudice has led to the association of perceived racism with poor psychological well being and psychological stress. Racism is an important concern in the present society due to the current prevalence of fatal violence against African Americans on the streets and even in church. It raises questions on the true incidence and impact of racial prejudice in the ...

Question 1: Race as a Socially Significant Category

Many of the social and political issues present in society today are rooted in the ideology of racism and ethnic misconceptions. The tragedy is that no one has yet to realize how racial biases and confusion affects the way people view and handle injustices. Biologically, every individual in the globe is genetically similar to another person, the probable reason that we are referred to as the human race. However, races have been developed by the society as social constructs that provide people with an identity or a label to their names. The society eliminates the utopian ideal introduced by ...

Medicare and Medicaid

The current paper aims to discuss the prevalence of Medicare and Medicaid and enlighten the influence of Affordable Care Act (ACA) in the hospital system of the United States. Medicare offers the healthcare insurance to the individuals who are aged 65 years or more and have provided their services to country. Medicare also provides financial assistance to the young individuals with disabilities or chronic diseases. The program was originally initiated in accordance with the legislation of Medical Care Act in the year 1956 in order to provide financial assistance in healthcare services to the military personnel (Chan et al., ...

Introduction

The prevalence of Affordable Care Act (ACA) has reduced the healthcare cost and has extended the eligibility of Medicaid for 32 million Americans. The effect of Medicaid on the healthcare of elderly remains hindered due to the lack of access to care, whereas its effect on the healthcare outcomes have remained optimum and children (Fairman et al., 2011). The combined objective of Medicaid in accordance with the Affordable Care Act incorporates the provision of healthcare services to the low-income parents, children, pregnant women and disabled individuals and hence, the healthcare services for the nondisabled adults are not addressed by ...

The paper deals with comparing and contrasting health care reform data for the two states of Minnesota and Arkansas.

Lack of Health Insurance According to the last data recorded, Minnesota had 7 percent of its total population without any private health insurance, neither their employer nor the government has it for them (State Public Health Statistics, 2016). This percentage has decreased only by 0.9% in last one decade. For Arkansas, it is the state that ranks 35 when it comes to having health insurance for the state’s population. 13.9% Arkansas population lacks health insurance, privately, through the government or the employer (State Public Health Statistics, 2016). Lacking health insurance privately put people in having difficulties accessing the ...

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Introduction Vampires are mythical creatures that appear in ancient folklores. Most cultures have their own version of the vampire although they share a common characteristic; that is, the lust for human blood. There is no particular gender to the vampire character. Male and female vampires do exists even in ancient literatures, making the vampire one of the most gender neutral characters. The depiction of the female vampire in human culture, however, is an interesting way of looking into the development of women, particularly on how society views women and their social status over the course of time. ...

It needs to be taken into account that literature goes on to reflect the true nature of the society of this world. The stalwart literary artists have for long engaged in portraying the dynamics of the interpersonal relationships in their works, and the theme of domination and its subsequent subversion has come to find commonality in the works of many literary artists of the world. If one closely introspects on some specific works, it would be easier to gauge how the thematic content of domination has been portrayed in the literary texts over the span of the history of ...

Abstract

The payer mix in healthcare financing currently comprises of three broad groups that include private insurance, government payers, and private payers. Private insurance covers 61% of the US population and contributes 49% in revenues. Government payers cover 31% of the population and contribute 55% of the revenues while the private payers account for 5% of population and contribute 6% of the revenues. The Affordable Care Act seeks to increase the insurance coverage in the United States. It would increase the contributions from government payer and reduce the default risk associated the private payers. This would also ensure that all ...

THE ROLE OF PUBLIC COMMUNICATION IN PUBLIC SPHERE AND THE INFLUENCE OF WORK OF THE PUBLIC COMMUNICATION PROFESSIONALS IN PARTICULAR SECTORS

The role of Public Relations (PR) and Public Communications officers has transformed from supportive to the strategic function, building on sustainable and effective operations in all three sectors (Fawkens, 2012, pp.3-20). While some may think that the role of public communication is to handle emergencies, the strategic goals of this function are much wider (Lattimore et al., 2012, pp.354-358). Among others, some of the vital tasks of PC include the development and implementation of the public image strategy, ...

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The healthcare environment is characterized by various dramatic as well as rapid changes whereby this is usually leads to various difficulties especially in regard to effective change management. In regard to this, the various stakeholders involved in the management of healthcare organizations should effectively monitor change in order to anticipate the effects of these changes and come up with the appropriate measures to effectively deal with the challenges presented by the changes. As such, it is crucial and necessary to effectively understand the continuing trends that include; changes in managed care, client characteristics and pay-for-quality so as to effectively ...

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Health Insurance is a form of insurance where an individual is insured against the risk of paying medical expenses in case they are in need of various types of medical care. Health insurance may not appear beneficial especially when a person stays for many years without becoming sick or requiring any medical care attention. However, it is clear that health insurance is necessary for every individual as it comes with numerous benefits. These benefits include protection from running into a financial ruin, access to preventive and primary care services, access to follow-up care services, eligibility to options for offsetting ...

Context: Current facts about the Affordable Care Act (ACA)

On 23rd March 2010, the ACA was signed into law. It introduces health care reforms with an objective of improving the affordability, accessibility, and quality of health care. The ACA has helped more Americans to have accessibility to affordable health insurance. Medicaid has been expanded to reach the entire population (Protection & Act 48). Through the expansion, small employers who are committed to cover their employees are provided with tax incentives, and persons willing to pay for insurance are also provided with tax credits. Furthermore, the health care industry has been reformed to reduce the higher costs of health care. ...

Since the dawn of industrialization, reducing the poverty levels has been a common challenge across nations. Poverty is the unrelenting duty of trying to survive. It is the regular hustle to make ends meet. Some of the few things that can define poverty involves lack of the basic needs such as food, clothing, shelter, security and education, which are vital to human life Poverty, is a worldwide concern, which has affected not only developing countries but also industrialized ones. For instance, the United States being one of the prosperous countries in the world has one of the uppermost levels ...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010 was signed into law on March 23, 2010 (HHS.gov., 2015). Referred to as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), it is a health reform effort that has generated a great deal of controversy due to its complexity and wide range of impact. The ACA is mainly concerned with mandating that every person in the country have some form of health insurance. Almost immediately after the legislation was passed, marketplaces for health insurance appeared and businesses hurried to find coverage for employees. There were some very negative changes that resulted such ...

The criminal behavior of women has a negative impact on the whole society because it affects its basic unit - the family and its moral-psychological atmosphere. The problem is still of great social importance, as the nature of female offenders has significantly changed. Currently, it is observed that the nature of the criminal behavior of women is marked by an increase in the number of committed graves and especially grave crimes, increased recidivism, reducing age (rejuvenation) of criminals and offenders. At the beginning of the XX century and in the first years after the millennia women's crime did not ...

Part 1

Notably, the cost of receiving healthcare in the United States has been on the rise in the recent years. It is, therefore, imperative that for the nation to address the problems associated with lack of sufficient healthcare there is the need to have caps on the skyrocketing nature of the healthcare costs (AHIP, 2016). The most notable areas where the rising costs have been detected include soaring costs of medical services, costly pharmaceuticals, unhealthy lifestyles, expensive medical technologies and the fee-for-service payment system whose only focus is on volumes instead of the expected value. It is worth noting that ...

Van Helsing as a Protector: The Role of the Vampire Hunter the Present-Day Vampire Culture

Abstract The vampire culture grew out of the Gothic genre and became extremely popular throughout the world. The first and most famous representative of the vampire cast is Dracula, who first appeared as a protagonist in Bram Stocker’s book with the same name. Dracula was created as a predator that hid within his threatening castle, and attacked helpless women. The author also introduced Van Helsing, the hero who acted as a protector of women and fought to destroy the monster. However, Van Helsing remained a less popular and well-known character as compared to the monster he hunted. In ...

Introduction

Primary health care refers to the medical care that a patient receives on the very first interaction with any system that provides health care. This medical care is provided by a nurse, a doctor or anybody with ideal medical practice. Nurses working in primary health care have general medical training or have been trained to do general work in any doctor‘s room. Other than having a certificate of medical practice such nurses would also require a certificate in basic life support. This paper examines the roles of various service providers in Primary Health Care and further illustrates their general contribution to the overall ...

Santa Ana Winds

Santa Ana Winds are recurrent winds that are mostly experienced in Southern California in autumn, winter and spring characterized by relatively low humidity and moderately strong offshore winds (Lynn and Svejkovsky, 1984). The winds reach their peak in the month of December with and underlying effect of causing the exceptionally hard to contain wildfires known to cause irrevocable losses whenever they occur. These winds, which exhibit some similarity to the winds normally observed in the lee of the famous Front Ranges of Colorado, warm adiabatically as they move downwards due to compressional heating. According to Raphael (2003) the winds have a ...