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newspapers and magazines understands that the "Big Kahuna" of health care regulations involves the Patient Protection and Affordab...

positive patient response. The authors contended that tight control of blood glucose reduces the risk of microvascular and macrov...

were those who didnt like the "gatekeeper" mentality, the fact that any referral or recommendation needed to come from a "primary ...

the standards of care and service reimbursement. With the growing elderly population and the changes in our familial lifestyles we...

to treatment; and "significant benefit restrictions for treating serious mental illnesses and addictions," have prompted advocates...

can no longer follow this model is because medical technology can now greatly prolong life-perhaps make it too long. People now ro...

hospitals to reevaluate the way in which patient care is delivered and quality of care is approached, while at the same time find ...

quality of care is approached, while at the same time find ways to reduce costs. It has also been noted that socialized health ca...

situation. As a provider of care, it is the role of the community health nurse to address the needs of Centerville adolescents i...

from large teaching hospitals, leaving them with the more seriously ill patients, whose care also is the most costly (Johnson and ...

twentieth century, with accusations that it has failed to live up to the demands placed upon it by the ever-growing population, ef...

This 10 page paper provides an overview of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. This paper includes four major changes ...

The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010. It is a progressive, sequential act with different parts mandat...

This research paper presents a comprehensive overview of the issues associated with the continuing debate about universal health c...

In a paper of seventeen pages, the writer looks at health care economics issues. Factors associated with the Affordable Care Act a...

This 10 page paper gives answers for questions in modules concerning health care in the United States. This paper includes questio...

This paper analyzes an article by Suzanne B. Johnson that discusses the paradigm shift in health care away from the biomedical mod...

This essay is comprised of two sections. The first section pertains to health care spending in the US and the second discussed the...

In most states, regulations concerning private managed care companies and programs are put forth primarily by the states insurance...

receiving additional income for having patients who use less services. As Stone (1997) indicates, she received a healthy bonus che...

it actually created more problems than it solved? An Overview of Fragmentation Once upon a time, medicine was a fairly str...

therefore, highly desirable to have a variety of types of LTC settings. Furthermore, alternatives to institutionalized care can o...

single assessment process will allow, with Gladyss permission, for information to be shared between the different professionals th...

that MCOs develop their capacity to handle changes that are driven legislatively by congressional response to public reactions to ...

All of the results of this reengineering, however, were not as positive. The process had not taken into consideration the fact th...

who are suffering from chronic ailments such as congestive heart failure, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), asthma and...

can be blamed on the political process in which any workable attempts to control costs were met with accusations of rationing heal...

control in the long term care setting. Avoidance of infection is preferable over the need for cure, and also has the effect of in...

In five pages this paper considers health care's present status with an approach option proposed. Ten sources are cited in the bi...

expected only to continue for several years to come. Then, growth will begin to decline in response to fewer numbers of people re...