Agrarian reform

Baum, the author of the “American Court”, explains that any personal incident that produces a significant physical injury or costly property damage might seem likely to go to court, because a lot of people know that they have legal remedies for personal injuries. We see this occurring in The McDonald’s Coffee Lawsuit also known as Liebeck v. McDonald Restaurants. Seventy-nine year old Stella Liebeck who suffered third degree burns over her inner tights and genital areas after she ordered and…

Healthcare in recent years has increasingly become more based on income, and wealth to be able to afford whatever medical treatment that you require. Since the Affordable Care Act, insurance premiums have gone up making it very difficult to afford insurance for my family. For this reason, my health conditions have been put off multiple times. I have had many different experiences in the health field including wanting to pursue a career in this field. Though the most recent diagnoses were…

Medicare and Medicaid are two programs funded by the federal government that provide health insurance benefits to people 65 or older, individuals with certain specific disabilities, and people with extremely low incomes. Income requirements for the program can vary from state to state, but most of them are based on federal poverty guidelines. Because they cover some vision expenses, these programs fall under vision insurance plans. In 2010, the maximum annual income for an individual to qualify…

King v. Burwell, if you are not familiar with this Supreme court case you may be wondering “why is it even important?”. This case deals with state and federal powers given by three sections of the PPACA & one IRS clarification. This case is important for several reasons, The first is according to obamacarefacts.com up to an estimated 8 million Americans using HealthCare.Gov could lose their subsidies. If this case was ruled in King's favor many speculate that it could have “destroyed Obama Care…

Employers choose to self-insure because it allows them to save the profit margin that an insurance company adds to its premium for a fully-insured plan. Ideally Aetna would want everyone to be on fully-insured plans to maximize its profits. In fully-insured plans Aetna bears the actuarial/financial risk. In self-insured plans, employer pays Aetna a fixed administrative fees. Healthcare use by covered persons is paid for by the employer. Thus, Aetna doesn’t bear any financial risk due to higher…

I believe that the relationship among access, cost and quality is called the “iron triangle” because of how heavily interrelated each entity is within our current healthcare system (a change in one aspect of the triangle affects the other aspects as well). If we were to increase access to healthcare, cost for healthcare would also increase. And access to quality healthcare is often limited due to cost. I do believe that cost, access and quality are important pillars of our healthcare system but…

issues. The commission’s 488-page report contained 167 recommendations to the federal government on issues such as pay equity, the establishment of a maternity leave program and national child care policy, birth control and abortion rights, family law reform, education and women’s access to managerial positions, part-time work and alimony. Issues concerning Aboriginal women and the Indian Act were also addressed in a large section of the commission as well. All of these recommendations were…

Analyzing the Emanuel Health Center Oluwateniola Elizabeth Shokunbi California State University Eastbay Introduction Emanuel Medical center is a community health center which was founded in 1917 with the aim of creating a healthier community by caring for their patients and each other; providing clinical, operational, and service excellence; and growing revenue, facilities, and people. The center consists of a 150-bed acute care unit, 145-bed skilled nursing facility…

Almost 9% of the US population or about 27 million people, as of 2009 are not able to get or do not take the amount of medicine they are prescribed, because they are not able to afford it this is known as Cost-Related Nonadherence or CRN(Kennedy and Wood 2). This is very bad because it means many people are not getting well as quickly or not getting well at all. That is why I believe that the US government should provide free healthcare for all citizens of the US. The US government should…

A current issue being debated about the American healthcare system applies to family and medical leave. “The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) provides eligible employees up to 12 workweeks of unpaid leave a year, and requires group health benefits to be maintained during the leave as if employees continued to work instead of taking leave.” (U.S. Department of Labor, 2016) Although this plan allows employees to take leave, this leave is not only unpaid, but also many cannot afford to take it.…