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The American Health Care System: A Disgrace

they should have "choices that are diverse and responsive to individual needs"; and they should exercise personal responsibility i...

TRICARE: A POLICY ANALYSIS AND REALITY CHECK

allowing the Department of Defense to provide civilian health care to dependents of military service members, TRICARE today has di...

Global Solutions for Health Care from a Social Work Perspective

their infrastructures are concerned, but health care is something that has severe ramifications. That is, the lack of health care ...

THE RISING COSTS OF HEALTH CARE IN THE UNITED STATES

doctors and hospitals who have no problems charging a patient three dollars for an aspirin tablet. Its also easy to point the fing...

American Health Care Industry as Viewed by Thomas Hobbes and Plato

In ten pages this paper examines how Hobbes and Plato would view the problems currently faced by the U.S. health care industry. F...

21st Century Nursing

required of nurses in the twenty-first century, it is important to look at health care trends in general. II. Changes in the Am...

Health Care Delivery and Quality Control Issues

In twenty pages this paper examines health care delivery in terms of the need for quality control and also discusses various relat...

Overview of Managed Health Care

In seven pages this paper is formatted as a speech that considers managed health care and addresses the system's various problems....

Health Care: Questions On Two Articles

There is no question HMOs are in need of some major improvement efforts. Time and time again, anecdotal accounts of personal ongo...

Health Care: Questions On Two Articles

4 pages in length. The writer discusses money's role in driving health care reform and what shifts might take place over the next...

An Evaluation of EMTALA

costs ("American Academy of Emergency Management: EMTALA," 2008). In some cases, patients without insurance would be sent to a cou...

PATIENT SAFETY AND CONSUMER-DIRECTED HEALTH CARE

had pushed through legislation mandating mandatory medical error reporting (Hosford, 2008). Additionally, and perhaps more importa...

Homelessness, Mental Illness, and the Advocate Role

Housing is of obvious concern as is successful intervention in the destructive pattern of behavior that has led to the homelessnes...

DOES THE U.S. NEED HEALTH CARE REFORM?

States will cost a lot. There just isnt enough to do so. But Welch (2005) points out that a universal health care policy doesnt ha...

Family and Health Promotion

this indicates, family is incorporated into and valued within the realm of pediatric nursing practice as a factor that is crucial ...

HEALTH CARE AND FUTURE TRENDS

that telemedicine is already having an impact on how healthcare is being delivered (Kohler, 2008). Kohler points out that technolo...

Post-Merger Problems

with similar expertise but with a slightly different viewpoint; it may be expanding vertically by acquiring a company either above...

Health Care Systems in the U.S. and China

desire for the latest developments (The managed care evolution, 2004). Unfortunately, super-sophisticated medical technology is e...

Basic Rights in Health Care

are told what they should do by their physicians. For example, if a patient visits a doctor and due to age parameters, he or she w...

Communications in Health Care (Case Study Analysis)

merely decided to retest all of the students (ONeil, 2004). Finally, the third scenario in this case study involves Rosa. Rosa man...

Transcultural Assessment - Arab-Americans

(Maier-Lorentz, 2008). Male doctors, for instance, may not be allowed to touch female Arab patients in certain parts of the body a...

Gene One Case Study

to grow at twice the rate of traditional crops and thrive in a broader range of soils. In order to be able to leveredge the potent...

Elderly Community Care, Housing and Health

In seven pages this paper examines senior citizen health care and housing in an emphasis upon social support and funding. Twelve ...

Workplace and Homosexual Rights

In five pages this paper considers the workplace rights of lesbians and gays in an overview that includes partner health care bene...

Freedom of Choice for Patients and Managed Health Care

In seven pages this paper examines freedom of choice options for patients and how they are affected by managed health care. Six s...

Basic Health Care as a Human Right

In ten pages this paper examines the issue of many individuals unable to afford health care in a consideration of various issues s...

A Consideraiton of the ANA Code for Nursing

In eight pages the concerns that have recently developed regarding the 1976 ANA Code for Nursing are considered including nursing ...

Critical Analysis of Mama Might Be Better Off Dead The Failure Of Health Care In Urban America by Laurie Kaye Abraham

In five pages this paper examines the U.S. system of health care within the context of this book by Laurie Kaye Abraham. There ar...

President Bill Clinton and Limiting Spending on National Health Care

In five pages this paper questions the practicality of limiting national health care spending in order to provide Social Security ...

HMOs and Health Care in the United States

In eight pages this paper discusses America's managed health care delivery systems in an overview of HMOs and their negative perce...