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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...

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

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

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

penetration rate for television services (The Net Economy, 2002). This indicates the level of importance that has been attached to...

that gives patients more options while maintaining fewer requirements (McKelvey, 2004). It is something that should strengthen the...

anticipated to help improve the system over the long term, short-term there will have to be adaptations by organizations as they d...

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

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

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

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

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

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

In four pages a health care provider reviews the Boren Amendment and opines that its demise is in the best interest of health care...

In twelve pages the scientific practice of health care is described in a consideration of the relationship between health care and...

In nine pages this paper examines health care leadership in a consideration of such topics as policy, whether or not health care s...

Fifteen pages and 14 sources. This paper relates the fact of the increasing discontentment with the universal health care system ...

In seven pages an examination of the U.S. health care system includes discussion of general health care issues of coverage, physic...

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

In ten pages this paper discusses the evolution of the health care industry in an overview of cost containment and HMO and managed...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

infected individuals essentially quadrupled in South Africa and Zimbabwe (El-Asfahani and Girvan, 2009). Today an estimated 25 pe...

a supplier to the industry (i.e., a third-party payor) might consider cost containment as important to quality, while the patient ...

care without knowing some data. It is also lopsided to discuss the cost without discussing the savings. In 2009, the National Coal...