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

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...

often quoted in the mass media, such as the loss of jobs to foreign lands and reduction in service levels. To examine this the p...

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

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

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

change banks, the cost in terms of time and effort on the part of the customer and the general homogenous service offerings result...

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

thousands of new jobs in the United States" (Outsourcing creates jobs, study says, 2004-hereafter "Outsourcing, 2004"). Global Ins...

healthcare services to senior citizens, which is an at-risk population in this country. One helping approach for people with dis...

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

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

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

important to understanding the impact of interventions. One of the major problems noted by a number of theorists is that the exte...

in a Scottish farmhouse that is more than 10 miles from the nearest village and more than 50 miles from the nearest hospital. Jame...

hallways of hospitals, it does seem to contain a great deal of minority workers. Yet, it is not clear who are in managerial roles ...

markets that can be quite lucrative. The industry can expect greater numbers of patients in the future, resulting both from demog...

All of these studies reflect empirical studies of hospital populations in an effort to determine how changes in the healthcare env...

Outsourcing is becoming more and more prevalent. The purpose of outsourcing is to achieve optimum results for the functions that a...

2000). Even as recently as just a couple of decades ago, conditions such as cramps, pregnancy nausea and even labor pains were oft...

primarily through government funding supported by tax receipts. Icelands national health care system "receives 85% of its funding...

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...

who suffer from cancer, arthritis, AIDS, multiple sclerosis or acute back pain are known to frequently turn to alternative medicin...

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

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

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

Canadians must also pay for dental and vision costs. Dental problems can lead to other health problems and diseases. The desired...

The actual cost of production of the 100th package of Microsoft Word(r) certainly was not the $500 it sold for at retail in the ea...

employees who end up on the contractors site (Violino, 2004). This could mean time taken to transfer data between systems (not to ...