HMO care and the "Patient Bill of Right's" People are concerned about rising health care costs. A natural reaction these rising costs, is the gravitation of some toward managed care plans, particularly Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) health plans. One of the characteristics of HMO's that facilitates lower premiums than other forms of traditional health insurance is that main clinical decisions are made not by doctors, but by the HMO's through strict contract guidelines entered into through participating clinicians. Additionally, as opposed to fee-for-service (FFS)...

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Alzheimer's Disease is relentlessly destroying the brains and lives of our nation's older adults, robbing them of memory, the ability to reason, and affecting their emotions and behavior. Alzheimer's Disease is a degenerative disorder of the brain. The longer we live the greater the risk; "nearly 10 percent of all people over age 65 and up to half of those over age 85 are thought to have Alzheimer's Disease or another form of dementia" (Anonymous, 2002). The devastation of Alzheimer's Disease affects millions of families in the United States. Alzheimer's Disease c...

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Introduction Around the globe, the advent of large-scale technology implementation in health care has begun. The terms telemedicine and telehealth are spreading across the globe as fast as the satellite communications systems can transmit them. Telemedicine has reached around the world and has he...

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Noting that a change to a capitating-based reimbursement system may establish incentives for health care providers to skimp on the quality of care, this development has not been further discussed in class with regard to possible selection effects. ... d) Note: during the whole paper, HMOs are considered to apply the capitation-based reimbursement method! ...

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Gunning-Schepers and Stronks (1999) note "differences in health between social groups, defined by class, educational level, income or professional status have been recorded in every country that has carried out research and have not visibly diminished despite social policies such as universal access to health care, greater access to educational opportunities, occupational health efforts, or reductions in income inequality." ... Vladek reported government cost-containment policies have had a differentially greater impact on the poor. (1981) However, in a recent report, Ross and Mirowsky (2000) ...

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June 21, 2000, a police officer is shot dead in Flagstaff, Arizona. This violent crime was committed by 17 year-old Eric Clark. In the Supreme Court case of Clark vs. Arizona, Clark argued that his paranoid schizophrenia gave him the inability to understand the nature of his acts at the time they we...

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America's healthcare industry shows us one of the most revealing contradictions in the country's economy. Even though America claims to be the world's most advanced superpower, it is still unable to provide its entire population with healthcare and even worse, the quality of its healthcare overall is declining in many ways. Though many democratic nations provide their citizens with healthcare access, the United States tries to concentrate the control of medicine into the hands of big businesses like the insurance industry and pharmaceutical companies. The result is that the Unit...

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The principle of respect for autonomy does not apply to people not in a position to act in an autonomous manner. This means that infants, suicidal people, and drug-dependent patients may be validly controlled on the grounds of beneficence to protect them from harm.1 Under the principle of beneficence, the nurse may legitimately restrain a patient from exercising his or her autonomy by trying to jump out a window.3 But people judged mentally incompetent are still capable of making autonomous choices about what they want to eat or what clothes they wish to wear.1 Constraint of a person'...

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Abstract This paper/newsletter will explain the various different kinds of healthcare insurance pertaining to managed care plans and Fee for Service plans. It will also clarify Parts A, B, C, and D of the Medicare health service. Finally it will give a brief description of the US healthcare system as explained to a foreigner. Healthcare Financing Project: Understanding the U.S. Healthcare System After talking with my best friend, grandmother, and cousin from England I realized that you were very confused about the United States (U.S) healthcare system and the many types of health insurance p...

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