The idea that the authors have to educate the general public is exceptional. The authors only want to inform others on how medicare can be sustained and what people can do to ensure it is. Issues like medicare and politics can be horrifying for someone to attempt to interpret but Duckett and Peetoom make it simpler and help people understand the aspects of medicare as well as how to make arguments about it. The book allows individuals to form ideas around aspects of medicare that require change and how they can get…
In his March 22nd column on the misdirection of the GOP’s proposed healthcare plan, he uses relevant statistics about who uses medicare. To support his claim that there is little to be gained by linking Medicaid with…
Through restrictions on eligibility to the elderly only, reducing benefits to hospital care, and combining health insurance to Social Security, the creators of Medicare assume will reach the goal which has eluded others. this strategy worked after argumentative debates took place with the AMA in which, they were not impressed by the efforts of appeasement. AMA president David Allman declared that the Medicare proposal “is at least nine parts evil to one part sincerity” and “the beginning of the end of private practice of medicine” (Oberlander, 2015, p.…
Introduction Ever since its creation in 2010, the Affordable Care Act has received a great deal of backlash. The law has been brought to the courts three times now due to many Americans having issues with certain provisions in the law. Two of the cases that challenged the Affordable Care Act have made it to the Supreme Court. The issues that have been challenged have been in reference to the provisions that expand Medicaid, grant subsidies to states that have established exchanges, and the individual mandate, which requires Americans to have “Minimal Essential Coverage.” The most recent case that has challenged the Affordable Care Act was the case King v. Burwell, which occurred this past year.…
Forgotten about by the Federal Government for a while now, is long-term care facilities. Even though the government enforced Medicare, certain restrictions still reside on Medicare that do not allow most people to use these types of resources to pay for their living in a long-term care facility. Because Medicare offers to individuals 65 years and older, long-term care services covered by Medicare for the health protection of persons age 65 and older are a necessity. Since Medicaid covers long-term care services for very low-income individuals, Medicare should also provide coverage for long-term care facilities for the older persons of age 65 and older. While not suggesting that the Federal government should just loan millions of dollars for…
Medicaid expansion was put in place by the ACA. It is the law written requiring all states to expand Medicaid coverage, so all low-income individuals would have Medicaid as coverage. I disagree; because I believe that healthcare should be a right for every American, not a privilege or a service. I was surprised to see that one of the highest institutions of the land such as the Supreme Court exempted states from Medicaid expansion. This is like punishing it own citizens because there are poor.…
The most effective solution to fix the problem of the disparity in the Medicaid system is to reform the Medicaid program. By mandating that all states participate in the Medicaid program, many people who rely on Medicaid will have equal opportunities to receive Medicaid no matter where they live. Equally important, the federal government will be able to manage the funding to ensure that no one is left out due to a state’s lack of funds. In short, this reform can benefit both the state and federal governments. As an incentive for full participation by the state, the funds by the federal government would increase in order to help each state.…
Health care disparities have been an issue that is of great interest to public health professionals. Several efforts have been made in efforts to reduce the existing health disparities. Health care disparities are politically sensitive issues and because they are interlaced with race relations, it poses a threat to achieving an overall healthy population. The issues of health care disparities are deeply rooted in socio economic status, culture, access to health care services, utilization of healthcare services, utilization of preventative care, genetics and other social determinants of health. David Satcher presents evidence of this problem where he writes “African American men have the greatest rate of lung cancer from smoking, and both African…
In a sense it is the healthy subsidizing and the sick at higher cost than before. Favoring the ADA, supporters claim that there is not an intergenerational injustice. They argue that many of the young are not paying anything into the system but are cared for when injured or sick. By this argument they are contributing to their own burden. This viewpoint also suggests that seniors making more than 250,000 a year should not receive free Medicare.…
Now that people had some type of insurance, health care was becoming increasingly obtainable. Prior to this point, the cost of most healthcare was coming out of people’s savings if they were not fortunate enough to have some sort of medical policy. By the late 60’s, the increasing need for long-term care, along with the high cost of institutional care, stimulated a renewed interest in care at home. Experiments with home care as a way to reduce the costs of hospitalization were undertaken and showed some promising benefits. By the early 70’s Government-sponsored home care programs came to be financed mainly through Medicare, Medicaid and Title III of the Older Americans Act.…
Medicaid Expansion in Missouri People do not like getting sick. However, some Missourians forego preventive care, required doctor visits, and beneficial medicines because they cannot afford them. The people in the Medicaid coverage gap ($0 ? $15,417 yearly income) include people we all know--child care workers, restaurant employees, home health workers, and students, just to name a few.…
On December 8, 2003 began a historical day for which President George W. Bush signed the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act. The main provision of this legislative act was allowing Medicare coverage for outpatient prescription drugs. This was a well overdue benefit for Senior’s who spend an average of $2,322 per year on prescription drugs. President Bush proposal was to initiate private sector’s capacity to expand health care coverage while delivering quality medical services. Some Medicare beneficiaries felt this Act still didn’t bring value as 14 million low-income beneficiaries benefited from the changes; as the remaining face significant gaps in coverage and were still liable up to 3,600 in annual expenses.…
When healthcare costs are moved to the aging population, their only option will be to spend their social security checks to compensation for the increased cost of Medicare. A present middle income wage worker that will retire in 2022 will have to dedicate 51 percent of their social security check to cover the cost of Medicare; that estimate increases by 90 percent and will expend a majority of the benefit for Medicare in 2037. Ryan’s plan presumes that it will save Medicare from bankruptcy and repeals most of the Affordable Care Act that has had positive outcomes in reducing healthcare costs. This bill would also repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), an independent panel of experts that endorse policies for avoiding increased expenditure in Medicare. This board forms policies and if not overruled by a Congressional vote, the IPAB introduces comprehensive measures for controlling cost.…
Statistically, only twenty-eight percent of Americans are insured through government-funded programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, implemented in the middle 1960s. Medicare commonly insures older people with acute care needs. “Medicaid is the joint federal-state government-sponsored program that pays for health services for poor children, pregnant women, and mothers of young children as well as mentally and physically disabled and very poor elderly individuals” (Emanuel 36). The most recent attempt to maintain a current medical assistance problem was a new law widely known as Obamacare. President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law on the 23rd of March 2010, putting in place comprehensive reforms that are meant to improve access to affordable health coverage for everyone and protect consumers from unfair insurance company practices.…
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