After reading the article in CQ Researcher related to veterans health care, answer the following questions: Do you believe that there are still major issues within the VA health care system? Do you know someone who has issues? What types of concerns do they have? There are still significant issues when it comes the the VA health care system. I do know someone who has VA health care and they do face issues when it comes to it. My Great Uncle was recently diagnosed with brain cancer and after having surgery, his VA health insurance would only pay for a few days of therapy. 2) What do YOU think should/could be done to improve health care access to veterans and dependents served at VA hospitals? What types of changes would you like to see made?
The first step that could be done to improve veterans’ health care systems is to increase the budget. According to our textbook, the VA expects to treat the veterans more often and increasing the budget would help them out. Secondly, privatizing veterans’ health and allowing those veterans that are broke to be on Medicaid. These are some steps that I would like to see made to help our veterans. 3) Should we even make this an issue with federal policy or should health care, at all levels, be a state issue and not involve the federal government? Why or why not? Personally, I believe that health care should be a state issue. Federal policy has a more limited process and the federal government is not going to have as many exchanges. State health care can make their very own course when it comes to health care and not have to wait for the federal government. Overall, with a state health care policy it would be easier to ensure coverage than with a federal health care policy.
In this case, the reader learns that liquidity is a better than average. The ratio and cash on hand have been better than 2013 from the past years. Moreover, it shows that the hospital has a higher ability to meet its cash obligation because it has more security compared to other hospitals. Funding allows hospitals to control funds and limit investments. Not-for-profit organizations help provide more services and margin of safety. Therefore, creditors look for a margin of safety so that the community that financed a small portion of total financing can be returned to the owners by leveraging. Capitalization ratio measures the funds that were borrowed and the assets that have been used. The coverage ratio measures the number that time they fixed financial charges. The time's interest earned ratio shows the ability of the hospital to meet
A. Health care reform is needed in America. Service for pay medical treatment leaves uninsured citizens going without health care, or seriously in debt.
Membership Services (MSD) at Kaiser Permanente used to be a modest department of sixty staff. However, over the past few years the department has doubled in size, creating minor departmental reorganization. In addition the increase of departmental staffing, several challenges became apparent. The changes included primary job function, as well as the introduction of new network system software which slowed down the processes of other departments. These departments included Claims (who pay the bills for service providers outside of the Kaiser Permanente network), and Patient Business Services (who send invoices to members for services received within Kaiser Permanente). Due to the unforeseen challenges created by the system upgrade, it was decided that MSD would process the calls for both of the affected departments. Unfortunately, this created a catastrophic event of MSD receiving numerous phone calls from upset members—who had received bills a year after the service had been provided. The average Monday call volume had risen from 1,800 to 2,600 calls per day. The average handling time for each phone call had risen as well—from an acceptable standard of 5.6 minutes to an unfavorable 7.2 minutes. The department continued to be kept inundated with these types of calls for the two years that these changes have been effect.
Palm’s biggest fault in his argument is the use of the fallacy generalization. When explaining the five steps in how veterans should be treated, he explains it as though it should be applied to every single veteran in existence. It should be noted that using this fallacy makes sense, because to the audience Palm seems to know what he is talking about when he explaining how veterans should be treated, what they do and do not like about others’ interactions with them and so on. Therefore, it would make sense that he states to “generally” treat all veterans the same. However, because he does so, Palm sometimes fails to address or even acknowledge that not every veteran is the same. It is very possible that there are some veterans who do not mind being thanked for their service by strangers. There may very well be veterans who do not mind answering people’s questions. For some, being thanked or answering questions may even help them to know that there are people who care and appreciate their service. Examples in which he uses this fallacy include but are not limited
The needs of 30 million additional patients cannot be met by the current system. Many opponents contend that it is not a sustainable answer to the health care crisis in America.
America is the land of opportunity and the land of second chances. People come to America to live a better life, but it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. When Veterans come back home, all they want is a second chance at life again. They want to come back and be able to start from where they left off. But the government has done very little to help these veterans. The government believes they have done enough with the programs they have created, but it hasn’t had much of a change. The purpose of this essay is to discuss my opinion and what I know about this issue, to benefit The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, who are my intended audience. If the government were to put a lot of effort, like they do for pointless issues, there wouldn’t be many struggling veterans. If the government does more to improve every aspect of the reintegration process of veterans, so many benefits would come out of this action. There are a couple of reasons for why we should work toward improving veterans lives. First, there would possibly be a decrease in the veteran suicide levels and a decrease in the substance abuse aspect. Second, less veterans and families will have to worry about living and struggling with mental illnesses. Third, by improving the economical aspect for these veterans, more will find jobs and less will end up on the street homeless. And lastly, the reintegration process won’t be as hard for these veterans, and they will be able to resume a normal life. This essay is not meant to offend in any way, its purpose is to provide a new perspective over this issue, to cause a change for the better.
North Florida has several community organizations that provides a health promoting community service. The community organization I have chosen to discuss is Wolfson Children’s Hospital. I will be discussing the following four topics concerning Wolfson Children’s Hospital; what type of services are offered, what is the cost to the client or family (if any), how is the agency funded and why is the organization important to the community?
...equired paperwork to receive the services they need (“Point: Veterans Struggle To Receive Benefits”). Soldiers are required to fill out excessive paperwork just to receive care. “Veterans and soldiers were required to file twenty-two documents to eight different departments in order to receive care” (“Point: Veterans Struggle To Receive Benefits”). It has become a very long and difficult process for our veterans to receive medical attention after returning home.
Healthcare has been a topic of discussion with the majority of the country. Issues with insurance coverage, rising costs, limited options to gain coverage, and the quality of healthcare have become concerns for law makers, healthcare providers and the general public. Some of those concerns were alleviated with the passing of the Affordable Care Act, but new concerns have developed with problems that have occurred in the implementation of the new law. The main concerns of the country are if the Affordable Care Act will be able to overcome the issues that plagued the old healthcare system, the cost of the program, and how will the new law affect the quality of the health delivery system.
“Factors Affecting Health Care” (50-55) Demonstrates the sacrifices and how difficult it is for veterans to receive healthcare from the Department of Veteran Affairs.
Nardin, Rachel “Healthcare for vets - and all others” The Boston Globe. 11 NOV 2007: N. Pag. Boston.com. WEB. 10 Nov 2009.
What Seems To Be The Problem? A discussion of the current problems in the U.S. healthcare system.
...sites of care. To be eligible for VA health care you must have served in the active military and discharged or released on conditions other that dishonorable. As a reservist or National Guard member you would have to be called to active duty other than training. After 1980 the veteran would have had to serve 24 continuous months, this might not apply to you for hardship, early out or a service connected disability. There are four categories of veterans that are not required to enroll but are urged to so they can better plan their health resources. Those are; veterans with a service connected disability of 50 percent or more, veterans seeking care for a disability the military determined was service connected not yet rated by the VA, veterans seeking care for service-connected disability only, and veterans seeking registry examinations for thing such as agent orange.
... more prone to chronic illnesses. As for Medicaid, it needs to improve its chronic care management. Chronic care management should be made more affordable to those with chronic illnesses (Baicker, Katherine, & Amy Finkelstein, 2011). This way, the program will be more beneficial to more people. The program should also introduce, and support home and community based services. Providing care in home settings will be much cheaper than nursing homes. Moreover, Medicaid needs to come up with customized beneficiary services. Patients’ needs are not equal. Therefore, Medicaid should be flexible enough to abandon the one size fits all mentality. Anyway, that notwithstanding, we cannot ignore the fact that Medicare and Medicaid have revolutionized healthcare in the United States. Giving credit where it is due, these two programs continue to save millions of helpless lives.
The major strength to the Medicare program is that it is able to supply people over the age of sixty-five in the United States with medical care. Medicare also provides support for people of all ages who have kidney failure and for people who have certain disabilities. Medicare is federally regulated which gives the beneficiary the option to reside anywhere in the United States without losing their eligibility and benefits. Another strength to Medicare is that it has become a better choice over most private insurance company’s due to its cost. Even with Medicare’s popularity, it does have some problems. Some of the weaknesses in the Medicare program include rather high deductibles and there is not a limit on out-of-pocket spending. This program also does not cover long-term care costs. An issue with Medicare right now is that with the massive amount of people about to enter into the program, “there is a reasonable fear that funds from taxpayers will not be able to keep up with the growing demand” (socialworkhelper.com). Although, this program shouldn’t be brought down, many politicians are concerned with how changes to the policy will affect taxpayers and