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Health Care Should Be a Government Program

equal consideration for all at some level that is seen as critical. The absence of such equality would make a theory arbitrarily d...

Economy Needs in 2008

Founded in 1971 and known for its rabid cost-consciousness and sound management, Southwest Airlines leading claim to fame has been...

Nursing Informatics, Meaningful Use

This research paper discusses the Medicaid and Medicare incentive program within the context of meaningful use and nursing informa...

Health Outcomes and SES

This research paper describes research findings that indicate the relationship between health outcomes and low socioeconomic statu...

HOSPITAL AND HEALTHCARE DISCUSSION

impact on changes in medical treatment practice. She notes that the introduction of Medicare "appears to be associated with an inc...

Medicare Program Part D

income which is far from adequate, they sometimes have to literally make the decision whether to eat or buy the drugs which have b...

Establishing a Price for MRI Use

the area of the country. Medicare pays $650 toward the price of an MRI scan in Sans Roentgens area. The machine cost figure to b...

Long Term Care/Medicare Reform

majority, if not all, Medicare part D plans will offer incentives for participants to choose generic drugs. It is believed that "g...

Regulatory Agencies and Medicare Prospective Payment System

that Park Medical had hired a contractor, Quorum, to conduct the program. Shortly after agreeing to pay the large settlement, Par...

Legislative Issues and Medicare's Prospective Payment System

a few years ago. Managed care was quite effective in cost containment until the mid-1990s, when health care costs began to rise a...

Lessons from the Past and Medicare

We must use a community approach to Medicares problem, a multidisciplinary approach that incorporates not only medical issues but ...

Baby Boomers and Medicare Problems

In five pages this paper examines the statistics regarding the generation of Baby Boomers and how this has affected Medicaid and M...

Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and Medicare Prospective Payment System

In a paper consisting of forty five pages this paper examines the implementation and beneficiary impact of Medicare's PPS as dicta...

Managed Care's Pros and Cons

In eleven pages this paper discuses PPOs and HMOs in an evaluation of these managed care system's pros and cons. Twelve sources a...

1997's Balanced Budget Act and Medicare Prospective Payment System

a study can be conducted and makes conclusions based on the expected results. Logic suggests that if caps are placed on certain ki...

Entitlement, Autonomy, and Medicare Issues

In ten pages this paper examines the future costs involved in Medicare and the need for reform program applications. Eleven sourc...

Home Health Service Provider Business Plan

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 ...

Health Education Professional Organizations and their Websites

This research paper offers an overview of the websites for the following health education professional organizations: the Society ...

Evidence-Based Practices Nursing

In health care, implementing evidence-based practices refers to making decisions about patient care that are based on the best evi...

Heath Insurance Coverage and Bariatric Surgery

the long run, providing bariatric surgery is the most efficient answer to this problem as it can result in tremendous net savings ...

Managing In An Inclusive Environment: Diversity

different demographic may also be seen as undermining work-place equality (Rijamampianina and Carmichael, 2005). A key ele...

Compare Contrast Medical Care Two Countries

Many countries across the world offer universal health care. This is especially prevalent in Europe, the UK, and UK possessions, e...

Advanced Practice Nursing, the Self Care Deficit Model of Dorothea Orem, and Urinary Incontinence

development of nurse-operated continence centers, which provide conservative management for UI (Bernier, 2002). Continence nurses...

Concept Mapping Versus Care Plans/A Proposed Study

the fever? Was it related to an infection in the surgical wound? Was the patient developing atelectasis and pneumonia? Or, was the...

The Problems Inherent in the Canadian Health Care System and Attempts at Reform

10 pages and 7 sources. This paper provides an overview of the existing problems that appear to be inherent in the Canadian healt...

Mexican-American Homeless & Programs

research that has investigated the characteristics of new Latin American immigrants has determined several characteristics that ma...

Community Health & Teen Pregnancy

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

Expanding Primary Care at Blackwell Health System

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

Rapid Response Team: Quick Recognition And Intervention Of Problems At Va Medical Centers

being more capable of acting proactively and preventively. The philosophy of nursing is something much grander and more complex t...

Medicare and the Elderly

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