Download or read book America s Healthcare Reform II written by Christopher Adekoya and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of America's Health Care Reform: Documenting the Process and Progress on OBAMACARE, surveys various arguments regarding why return on investment in healthcare is not as robust as those obtained in other first world's countries. It highlights likely reasons why return on investment in America's Health Care System is unlikely to improve in the short-term without a restructuring of the current health care system; and, continues to make a case for a packaged solution in a law to help solve the short term perceived lackadaisical investment performance in the healthcare System. The following are the pertinent areas of deliberation: 1) Comparing ROI of America's Health Care System against others across the globe; 2) Taming the Rising Health Care Cost: the case for a packaged solution in reforming America's health care system; 3) Passing a Packaged Solution of Health Care Reform into Law: the Contemplative Strategies and Options; and, 4) The Final Push: the imperfection vs. perfection of a Packaged Health Care Reform Law and birth of "OBAMACARE". Finally, the volume lays the foundation for the conviction that despite the likely imperfection of a health care reform law, the birth of this packaged solution makes Americans better-off than worse off. The current enrollment data on OBAMACARE bears this out.
Download or read book Health Care Reform written by Jonathan Gruber and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You won't have to worry about going broke if you get sick. We will start to bring the costs of health care under control. And we will do all this while reducing the federal deficit. That is the promise of the Affordable Care Act. But from the moment President Obama signed the bill into law in 2010, a steady and mounting avalanche of misinformation about the ACA has left a growing majority of Americans confused about what it is, why it's necessary, and how it works. If you're one of them, buy this book. From how to tame the twin threats of rising costs and the increasing number of uninsured to why an insurance mandate is good for your health, Health Care Reform dispels false fears by arming you with facts.
Download or read book Healthcare Reform in America written by Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This valuable handbook makes the U.S. health care system understandable, reviews the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or "Obamacare," describes past health care reform efforts, and covers the important organizations and people involved in U.S. health care reform. Why does the United States produce poorer outcomes for Americans in terms of health care than most other developed countries that spend a lower percentage of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on health care? Should health insurance be private or should it be managed by the government? The second edition of Healthcare Reform in America: A Reference Handbook addresses these complex and difficult questions and many more in its thorough treatment of one of the most controversial issues in contemporary American discourse. The work provides a broad introduction to the history and key issues in the development and reform of the U.S. health care system. It then addresses the recent passage of the Affordable Care Act and the myriad of significant expected changes due to the Act, thereby providing readers with information essential to understanding the current issues regarding health care reform. This work serves as a valuable resource to high school and college students as well as to general readers wanting to learn about the history and current focus of health care reform in the United States.
Download or read book Changing the Health Care System written by and published by National Academies. This book was released on 1994 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book China s Healthcare System and Reform written by Lawton Robert Burns and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a comprehensive review of China's healthcare system and policy reforms in the context of the global economy. Following a value-chain framework, the 16 chapters cover the payers, the providers, and the producers (manufacturers) in China's system. It also provides a detailed analysis of the historical development of China's healthcare system, the current state of its broad reforms, and the uneasy balance between China's market-driven approach and governmental regulation. Most importantly, it devotes considerable attention to the major problems confronting China, including chronic illness, public health, and long-term care and economic security for the elderly. Burns and Liu have assembled the latest research from leading health economists and political scientists, as well as senior public health officials and corporate executives, making this book an essential read for industry professionals, policymakers, researchers, and students studying comparative health systems across the world.
Download or read book The Future of Public Health written by Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1988-01-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Nation has lost sight of its public health goals and has allowed the system of public health to fall into 'disarray'," from The Future of Public Health. This startling book contains proposals for ensuring that public health service programs are efficient and effective enough to deal not only with the topics of today, but also with those of tomorrow. In addition, the authors make recommendations for core functions in public health assessment, policy development, and service assurances, and identify the level of government--federal, state, and local--at which these functions would best be handled.
Download or read book America s Healthcare Reform I written by Christopher Adekoya and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents debate points of instituting a new law to replace the existing insurance-based, employment centered and administratively complex healthcare system that continued to gobble up billions of dollars in the nation's GDP. Prior to the passing of the Affordable Care Act, affably known today as OBAMACARE, the preponderance perception was that, rate of returns on investment in America's Health Care System was not yielding comparative returns as in other first world countries. To buttress or counter the argument for change, a reformed healthcare system, two volumes of the book was completed; and, volume one documents a collection of arguments in the area of : 1) Getting Started: Rebuilding and Aligning Democrats' Support for Health Care Legislation After the White House Summit; 2) Selling a Packaged Solution of Health Care Reform to the People; 3) Conflict, Hiccups and Arm Twisting in Selling a Packaged Solution of Health Care Reform; and, 4) Costs of a Packaged Health Care Reform Law and the heated Debates. It is the position of this collection of debate points, or book, that passing a packaged healthcare reform law that increases participation of more Americans in the healthcare system, affords for a more equitable and democratized healthcare system for more Americans
Download or read book Health Care Reform and American Politics written by Lawrence R. Jacobs and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in March 2010 is a landmark in U.S. social legislation, and the Supreme Court's recent decision upholding the Act has ensured that it will remain the law of the land. The new law extends health insurance to nearly all Americans, fulfilling a century-long quest and bringing the United States to parity with other industrial nations. Affordable Care aims to control rapidly rising health care costs and promises to make the United States more equal, reversing four decades of rising disparities between the very rich and everyone else. Millions of people of modest means will gain new benefits and protections from insurance company abuses - and the tab will be paid by privileged corporations and the very rich. How did such a bold reform effort pass in a polity wracked by partisan divisions and intense lobbying by special interests? What does Affordable Care mean-and what comes next? In this updated edition of Health Care Reform and American Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol-two of the nation's leading experts on politics and health care policy-provide a concise and accessible overview. They explain the political battles of 2009 and 2010, highlighting White House strategies, the deals Democrats cut with interest groups, and the impact of agitation by Tea Partiers and progressives. Jacobs and Skocpol spell out what the new law can do for everyday Americans, what it will cost, and who will pay. In a new section, they also analyze the impact the Supreme Court ruling that upheld the law. Above all, they explain what comes next, as critical yet often behind-the-scenes battles rage over implementing reform nationally and in the fifty states. Affordable Care still faces challenges at the state level despite the Court ruling. But, like Social Security and Medicare, it could also gain strength and popularity as the majority of Americans learn what it can do for them. What Everyone Needs to Know® is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press.
Download or read book American Healthcare Reform written by Earl W. Ferguson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meaningful healthcare reform requires understanding of our complex healthcare system. This book was written to help clarify the difficult and poorly understood issues and problems of American healthcare. Its purpose is to help us move forward on the many difficult decisions that should be made to improve our healthcare system. Our unique combination of public-private funding and free-market capitalism system has been a major source of medical care advancements over the last half-century. The entrepreneurial spirit of risk takers who have invested billions of dollars to push forward innovative ideas and products has been key to its success. We should not lose that driving force for medical advancements and our economy. Our American healthcare system needs reform. We should fix it rationally with a scalpel, not destroy it with a meat cleaver. To optimize and appropriately guide that reform, we should first understand and concentrate on the real problems. Primarily we should fix our healthcare system by decreasing its administrative complexity and inefficiencies. The Affordable Care Act should be modified significantly to make it more acceptable as part of our national effort for more meaningful reform. Rational solutions through political compromises are not easy to find in our highly polarized political environment. It will be a long uphill climb, but it is a challenge that we must meet for our uniquely American healthcare system to survive.
Download or read book Health Care Utilization as a Proxy in Disability Determination written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Security Administration (SSA) administers two programs that provide benefits based on disability: the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. This report analyzes health care utilizations as they relate to impairment severity and SSA's definition of disability. Health Care Utilization as a Proxy in Disability Determination identifies types of utilizations that might be good proxies for "listing-level" severity; that is, what represents an impairment, or combination of impairments, that are severe enough to prevent a person from doing any gainful activity, regardless of age, education, or work experience.
Download or read book Reinventing American Health Care written by Ezekiel Emanuel and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive story of American health care today—its causes, consequences, and confusions In March 2010, the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. It was the most extensive reform of America’s health care system since at least the creation of Medicare in 1965, and maybe ever. The ACA was controversial and highly political, and the law faced legal challenges reaching all the way to the Supreme Court; it even precipitated a government shutdown. It was a signature piece of legislation for President Obama’s first term, and also a ball and chain for his second. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, a professor of medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania who also served as a special adviser to the White House on health care reform, has written a brilliant diagnostic explanation of why health care in America has become such a divisive social issue, how money and medicine have their own—quite distinct—American story, and why reform has bedeviled presidents of the left and right for more than one hundred years. Emanuel also explains exactly how the ACA reforms are reshaping the health care system now. He forecasts the future, identifying six mega trends in health that will determine the market for health care to 2020 and beyond. His predictions are bold, provocative, and uniquely well-informed. Health care—one of America’s largest employment sectors, with an economy the size of the GDP of France—has never had a more comprehensive or authoritative interpreter.
Download or read book The 30 Year Looking Glass written by Lora A. Lankford and published by RoseDog Books. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Thirty-Year Looking Glass is an allegoristic personal and industry-wide observation of transitions and perceptions within the American healthcare industry. The first third of the book presents how policy is made in America. The second third identifies key health policy initiatives and law changes of the 19th and 20th century on the national level. It also defines the population of the uninsured and what actions have been taken to address the massive numbers of them. The final third takes the reader on a journey through the two looking glasses of the author's experiences within the American healthcare industry: personal and professional. Finally, the book provides a critique of the Healthcare Reform Bill of 2010 signed into law by President Obama and concludes with strategies envisioned to help alleviate the burden of the uninsured on the American healthcare system"--P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book Healthcare Reform in America written by Jennie J. Kronenfeld and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does the United States produce poorer outcomes for Americans in terms of health care than most other developed countries that spend a lower percentage of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on health care? Should health insurance be private or should it be managed by the government? The second edition of Healthcare Reform in America: A Reference Handbook addresses these complex and difficult questions and many more in its thorough treatment of one of the most controversial issues in contemporary American discourse. The work provides a broad introduction to the history and key issues in the development and reform of the U.S. health care system. It then addresses the recent passage of the Affordable Care Act and the myriad of significant expected changes due to the Act, thereby providing readers with information essential to understanding the current issues regarding health care reform. This work serves as a valuable resource to high school and college students as well as to general readers wanting to learn about the history and current focus of health care reform in the United States.
Download or read book Evidence Based Medicine and the Changing Nature of Health Care written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2008-09-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the work of the Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine, the 2007 IOM Annual Meeting assessed some of the rapidly occurring changes in health care related to new diagnostic and treatment tools, emerging genetic insights, the developments in information technology, and healthcare costs, and discussed the need for a stronger focus on evidence to ensure that the promise of scientific discovery and technological innovation is efficiently captured to provide the right care for the right patient at the right time. As new discoveries continue to expand the universe of medical interventions, treatments, and methods of care, the need for a more systematic approach to evidence development and application becomes increasingly critical. Without better information about the effectiveness of different treatment options, the resulting uncertainty can lead to the delivery of services that may be unnecessary, unproven, or even harmful. Improving the evidence-base for medicine holds great potential to increase the quality and efficiency of medical care. The Annual Meeting, held on October 8, 2007, brought together many of the nation's leading authorities on various aspects of the issues - both challenges and opportunities - to present their perspectives and engage in discussion with the IOM membership.
Download or read book Part 2 written by Henry E Parkins and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the Future of Healthcare: "Healthcare Reform: Solutions for Improving Access and Affordability US" is your essential guidebook to navigating the complexities of America's healthcare system. Discover innovative strategies, evidence-based approaches, and actionable solutions aimed at making healthcare more accessible and affordable for all Americans. Whether you're a policymaker, healthcare professional, advocate, or concerned citizen, this book offers invaluable insights and practical recommendations for driving positive change in our healthcare landscape. Unlock the Secrets to Better Healthcare: Are you ready to unlock the secrets to a more accessible and affordable healthcare system? Look no further than "Healthcare Reform: Solutions for Improving Access and Affordability US." Packed with groundbreaking research, real-world case studies, and expert analysis, this book is your roadmap to reforming America's healthcare system. From policy approaches to innovative delivery models, discover the tools and strategies needed to create a healthier, more equitable future for all. Transform Healthcare, One Page at a Time: Transformative. Insightful. Actionable. "Healthcare Reform: Solutions for Improving Access and Affordability US" is more than just a book it's a call to action. Join the movement to reform healthcare in America with this comprehensive guidebook. Learn how to tackle access barriers, reduce costs, and promote equity in healthcare delivery. With its compelling narrative and practical recommendations, this book will empower you to be a catalyst for change in our healthcare system. Your Essential Companion for Healthcare Reform: Whether you're a seasoned healthcare professional or a concerned citizen, "Healthcare Reform: Solutions for Improving Access and Affordability US" is your essential companion for understanding and navigating the complexities of healthcare reform. Gain valuable insights into the historical context, current challenges, and future possibilities of healthcare in America. With its engaging prose and actionable recommendations, this book is a must-read for anyone passionate about improving access and affordability in healthcare. Take Charge of Your Healthcare Future: Ready to take charge of your healthcare future? "Healthcare Reform: Solutions for Improving Access and Affordability US" empowers you to do just that. Explore innovative strategies, evidence-based practices, and policy solutions aimed at transforming America's healthcare system. From addressing social determinants to embracing technological advancements, this book equips you with the knowledge and tools needed to advocate for change and drive progress in healthcare reform.
Download or read book Health Care in America written by Kant Patel and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American health care system is a unique mix of public and private programs that critics argue has produced a two-tier system - one for the rich and the other for the poor - that delivers dramatically unequal care and leaves millions of Americans seriously underinsured or with no coverage at all. This book examines the root causes of the inequalities of the American health care system and discusses various policy alternatives. It systematically documents the demands on and the performance of our health care system for different population groups as defined on the basis of gender (women), age (children), race and ethnicity (African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans), and residence in high poverty areas (rural and inner city locales).For each population, the book documents: historical and demographic profile, data on health status, aspects of inequality including access; quality of care; and endemic, cultural, and lifestyle issues affecting health; policies, laws, and programs relevant to health care; and, indicators of improvement or negative trends.
Download or read book Healthcare Reform Quality and Safety written by Jeffrey Braithwaite and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-03-28 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a global perspective on healthcare reform and its relationship with efforts to improve quality and safety. It looks at the ways reforms have developed in 30 countries, and specifically the impact national reform initiatives have had on the quality and safety of care. It explores how reforms drive quality and safety improvement, and equally how they act to negate such goals. Every country included in this book is involved in a reform and improvement process, but each takes place in a particular social, cultural, economic and developmental context, leading to differing emphases and varied progress. Methods for tackling common problems - financing, efficiencies, effectiveness, evidence-based practice, institutional reforms, quality improvement, and patient safety initiatives - also differ. Representatives from each nation provide a chapter to convey their own situation. The editors draw a conclusion from these numerous contributions and synthesize the themes emerging into a coherent ‘lessons learned’ summary that delivers value to the numerous stakeholders. Healthcare Reform, Quality and Safety forms a compendium of the current ‘state of the art’ in global healthcare reform. This is the first book of its type, and offers a unique opportunity for cross-fertilization of ideas to the mutual benefit of countries involved in the project. The content will be of interest to governments, policymakers, managers and leaders, clinicians, teaching academics, researchers and students.
