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Essays 241 - 270
This essay is about proposed policies and legislation that addressed the nursing shortage. It also brings in proposed changed to M...
impact on changes in medical treatment practice. She notes that the introduction of Medicare "appears to be associated with an inc...
Obamacare has consumed discussions on American health care legislation in the last years. Obamacare will have significant impacts...
or may not have a market, home health care is a service that always has a market of some size. The business is a proven one, one ...
back to rationality and politics (and the fact Stone believes the two cant be combined), she notes that the theoretical rational d...
forgetful. It can be a very serious problem for the elderly who are often on a smorgasbord of necessary pills to treat a variety o...
that a means test would be supported by Democrats but that is far from the case. The article points out that Medicare is embraced ...
care is no more a right than is the "right" to drive fast cars (Marmor, 2000); far more subscribe to the view that access to healt...
most of the differences between them rest on the types of drugs covered under each specific plan. The mechanics of each plan are ...
the poorest communities, in terms of income level, have the lowest standard of health: a group which practises low-risk behaviours...
income which is far from adequate, they sometimes have to literally make the decision whether to eat or buy the drugs which have b...
cost billions to bring a new drug to market, and the developer has patent protection only for relatively few years. To recoup its...
and their insurers by operating under two distinct fee schedules. Medicare requires that care providers fees be "normal and custo...
the challenge of numerous social problems throughout its history (Jansson, 2000). During the colonial period, indentured servants ...
influences the degree to which health care costs rise in that it establishes what it will and will not pay for goods and services....
also had increased dramatically: by 1994, that percentage of GNP had increased to 15 percent and had topped the $1 trillion mark ...
America, not the least of which is hospice care. Even funding sources of the magnitude of Medicare and private insurers have come ...
debt while meeting operational overhead expenses. As the federal government seeks to gain the benefits of increasing qualit...
providers fees be "normal and customary," and those care providers who have attempted to set lower fees for those without any safe...
with advancing age. Care providers cannot set lower fees for uninsured individuals and then penalize the insured and their insure...
that health insurance is simply a fringe benefit as opposed to a fundamental right (1994). Another issue that comes into play is...
to be able to liberalize their policies, something that has made life difficult for many people, and not just seniors or the disab...
In fifteen pages this paper examines Medicare in an assessment of fee for services vs. managed care plans. Fifteen sources are ci...
In ten pages this paper discusses Medicare and the financial problems associated with supplying pharmaceutical benefits across the...
In sixteen pages this paper discusses how Medicare and Medicaid costs are impacted by senior citizen health care, AIDS treatment a...
This fifty page paper provides an extensive examination of ambulatory payment systems development in the environment of modern hea...
of how the treatment may be paid for. Other problems erupt when patients ask their doctors to fudge a code through the system beca...
electric scooter to virtually anyone over the age of 65, CMS current position is that no individual will be approved to receive on...
American Medical Colleges, American Medical Assn. et al. v. United States), which alleged the government is conducting illegal Med...
The provider may not charge either the patient or supplementary insurer an additional amount. "If the provider does not take assi...