While the CEA estimates employment gains to continue through 2017 and for these levels to be sustainable, they do not predict further gains in employment past that, as they predict the economy will have recovered to full employment. ...
Nola Pender was born in Lansing, Michigan, in 1941. As the only child, her parents were strong advocates for the education in women. As a child Pender expressed an early interest in nursing when her aunt was hospitalized. With the help and support of her family she pursued her desire to obtain a nur...
The Affordable Care Act was designed by President Obama to help reform the health care system. The affordable care act will implement measures that will lower health care costs and improve system efficiency, and to eliminate industry practices that include denial of coverage due to pre-existing c...
Mentally healthy workplaces should be optimistic and beneficial, and maximize the skills and talents of its employees to be productive. Nurses who are mentally healthy and well supported by their team, leaders and organization have been proven to be more productive and less likely to take absente...
Judge Learned Hand is quoted in the article "Lawsuits Could Force HMOs to Improve Cost-Benefit Balance" stating, " negligence occurs whenever it would cost less to prevent a mishap than pay for the damages predicted to result from it"" (D11). ...
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is one of the most substantial reforms in Medicare; it's now considered the "law of the land," according to Douglas Holtz-Eaton. The PPACA portrays a "coverage first" strategy. "Sadly, a review a of the state's experience bodes poorly for the future of national reform." (Point/Counterpoint 177) There are two major driving factors in which could propose a threat for this reform. The first factor is it costs too much. ...
When the Civil War began, neither the Union nor the Confederacy was prepared for the level of destruction that warfare would bring. Neither side could have predicted that 600,000 men would die as a result of this conflict. After the first Battle of Bull Run in July 1861, both sides realized that t...
The purpose of this essay is to explore confidentiality issues in regards to adolescents. Adolescent confidentiality is becoming a growing issue in healthcare as teens are engaging in a variety of health risk behaviours that should be known to their health care providers. We realize that in spite o...
Abstract ObamaCare is an assistant service to those who do not have health insurance with reason being either they cannot afford it or they have been rejected by insurance companies for many reasons such as their medical condition history. There are many details in this law but the most commonly ask...
By the first of the year (1993) the rise in annual health care cost was up to 6.4 percent and, although the figures for the percent of GDP were not available for 1993, the percent GDP for 1994 was 13.6 percent with that percentage predicted to rise to 14.9 percent by the year 2002 (Ginzberg, 1994). ...
During a study done comparing suicide rates to cancer diagnoses in California between the years 1997-2006, finding showed that there was a total of 1,168 reported suicides in 1,123,528 cancer patients. The study found that cancer patients had a 2.3 times higher suicide rate than the general populati...
The inability to start a conversation about advanced directives in the United States is leaving countless people without control over their own life during medical emergencies. When everything goes black and your voice can no longer be heard, whom do you want in charge of your fate? The answer is simple: you. The only way this is possible is if you have an advanced directive to guide medical professionals and family in the proper direction to meet your wishes. The importance of being educated on advanced directives is brought to life with the case of Terri Schiavo, as superfluous procedures, ...
Pikert says, "When the CBO estimated the effects of a Medicare expansion in 2008, it predicted that some Americans who would have previously stayed in the workforce to ensure they had health coverage would retire earlier, knowing they could buy into the public insurance program"(3). ...
