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Paul Starrs (1983) book, The Social Transformation of American Medicine, provides insightful vision into the changes that had occu...

The estimated increase for 1999 is between 7 and 10 percent.4 Of the expenditures in 1997, 33 percent went towards hospital costs,...

In twelve pages this research paper contrasts and compares the advantages of Canada's public approach to health care as opposed to...

Clinical Pathways can be important to saving the health care system of this country, according to this paper. It gives an overview...

their cost in the treatment of the condition. Other insurance companies will chose not to insure the individual with the pre-exis...

A seven page paper delineating the factors behind the impetus for better health care products and services. From the 1960s onward...

In eleven pages this paper considers 1995's H.R. 323 with the emphasis upon health care savings and applications to later tax defe...

This formula, at 1994s standards, placed the poverty line at $14,800 for a family of four, no matter if they were in the urban Nor...

because they do not have the means to get medical attention (Center for American Progress, 2007). Health care costs seem to rise e...

agony? Medicine was not always the assembly line it is today. According to Pescosolido and Boyer, there were three events that ch...

knowledge safely and appropriately" (p. 17). Morath (2003) went so far as to state clearly that the U.S. healthcare system is dang...

(Jennings, 2005). The reason for the huge increases in health care costs is not the insurance companies, Jennings found, but the f...

conversation with MaryAlice Mowry," 2003). Many people do not realize that government benefits aligned with disabilities would be ...

Foundation, 2006). In 2003, at least US$700 million was spent by Americans purchasing drugs from Canadian pharmacies (Kaiser Famil...

now our nations elderly have depended on Medicare/Medicaid for their medical needs. The Medicare/Medicaid system upon which these...

of literature about biomedical ethics relative to patient autonomy. This type of autonomy is limited, at best, with managed health...

the store improving customer service quality, but it might not generate sufficient income to pay the extra costs. Coppola, Erchk...

patient (Seidel, 2004). This author also states that effective communication is something that can and must be learned (Seidel, 2...

workers (Center for American Progress, 2007). Something must be done. Universal health care has been proposed by many politicians...

healthcare services to senior citizens, which is an at-risk population in this country. One helping approach for people with dis...

would have no need for surgical gloves, but a hospital or a stand-alone outpatient surgery clinic has need for both. A mate...

in a Scottish farmhouse that is more than 10 miles from the nearest village and more than 50 miles from the nearest hospital. Jame...

hallways of hospitals, it does seem to contain a great deal of minority workers. Yet, it is not clear who are in managerial roles ...

markets that can be quite lucrative. The industry can expect greater numbers of patients in the future, resulting both from demog...

important to understanding the impact of interventions. One of the major problems noted by a number of theorists is that the exte...

All of these studies reflect empirical studies of hospital populations in an effort to determine how changes in the healthcare env...

2000). Even as recently as just a couple of decades ago, conditions such as cramps, pregnancy nausea and even labor pains were oft...

primarily through government funding supported by tax receipts. Icelands national health care system "receives 85% of its funding...

subject of rationing health care. The authors look at the years 1989 through 1995 and laws which were put in place in Oregon to ad...

who suffer from cancer, arthritis, AIDS, multiple sclerosis or acute back pain are known to frequently turn to alternative medicin...