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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Health care reform"”.
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Health Care Reform and the Autistic Population
Healthcare officials are faced with the daunting task of reforming the current healthcare system in the United States. President Barack Obama and his administration are attempting to restructure the system so that healthcare services are available to every citizen in the U.S. The new political …
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U.S. health care reform and medical privacy rights
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1994.
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Political Awareness and Public Opinion on Health Care Reform
… especially on contentious policy issues such as health care reform. Political information from elite discourse is often partisan in nature, which shapes citizens’ attitudes toward policy issues. Citizens who are politically aware process political information differently compared to those who are …
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Innovative Approach to New Nurse Residency, Meaningful Use and Health Care Reform
<p>The project’s aim was to examine the financial impact of replacing registered nurse (RN) travelers, RN registry and RN overtime with new graduate RNs. Newly graduated RNs are often viewed by hospital administrators as a more costly staffing resource. This project contributes knowledge regarding …
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Uncertainty and information seeking patterns : a test of competing hypotheses in the context of health care reform
… and information seeking in the context of health care reform. Competing uncertainty frameworks (i.e., uncertainty reduction, motivation to reduce uncertainty, predicted outcome value) are integrated in a model and then tested against each other to better understand how individuals are faced …
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Health Educators as a Think Tank: Recommendations to Improve Health Care Reform Proposals and Potential Roles for the Profession
Health care reform has been a controversial topic in America since the early 1900s (PBS, 2010). Today, the United States spends more on health care than any other industrialized nation (National Center for Health Statistics, 2011), but despite spending more, the U.S. has 46.3 million citizens who …
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The Doctor-Patient Relationship Between President Obama and the Nation: An Analysis of the Speech on Health Care Reform Given to Congress in 2009
… on the illness from which the United States health care system has been suffering for decades. His speech on health care reform diagnosed the illness just as a physician would diagnose an illness of a patient. Obama observed the symptoms of rising medical costs, limited access to medical …
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A study of health care reform effects on the function and philosophy of discharge planners: a proposed change in the curriculum for hospital discharge planners
Results and Implications The Medicare data used for the study comes from previous RAND studies and data from a sample community hospital for comparisons of average lengths of stay, post hospital utilization, characteristics of patients who have a propensity to use post hospital care by gender, age …
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The effect of health insurance plan type on initial colorectal cancer screening in the United States since the inception of health care reform in Massachusetts
The Accountable Care Act (ACA) will expand coverage to millions of Americans. Health insurance plans designed to contain costs and incentivize patients may pose risks that deter members from utilizing recommended services despite provisions such as zero-cost-sharing intended to encourage their use. …
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"We Have a Longstanding Critical Problem…All Right?": The Promotion of Domestic Crisis in President Obama's Health Care Rhetoric
… in 2009, President Barack Obama set to work on health care reform. Little more than a year later the President signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which achieved a goal of so many previous administrations, into law. In order to encourage the passage of health care reform, …
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The Integration of Health Care Policy in Medical Education
… do not include introductory courses on various health care policy topics. The 2005-2006 U.T. Southwestern Congressional Health Care Fellowship activities are examined in this thesis, including Avian Influenza, the Ryan White Care Act reauthorization, and Massachusetts Health Care Reform Plan. It …
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Explaining Radical Change in Ghanaian Health Care Policy
… the causes of welfare state change, including health care reform, emphasizes stability, yet there is evidence of remarkable changes taking place in welfare systems in much of the developing world. This study analyzes health care reform in Ghana, a country which has experienced significant …
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Quality of Life and the Health Care System in New River Valley, Virginia: Residents' Perceptions and Experiences
… the implementation of one component, Community Health Status Assessment, of a comprehensive, strategic planning tool, Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP), to qualitatively uncover the perceptions of the quality of life and local health care system of 28 residents in …
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Countervailing Forces: The Impact of Persuasion on Political Policyaking
… groups. To argue this point, a case study of health care reform is provided to exemplify that legislation for the “common good” or majority of citizens has been seriously delayed and diluted. Corporate-owned, mainstream media has been complicit in the problem by distributing entertainment and …
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Health Insurance Exchanges: A Panacea or a Band-Aid?
… the 111th Congress passed the first national health care reform in the United States, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). This landmark legislation is intended to "fix" a health care system renowned for decreasing access and escalating costs. This paper examines one of the …
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VILIFYING OBAMACARE: CONSERVATIVE TROPES OF VICTIMAGE IN THE 2009 HEALTH CARE DEBATES
… the debate over President Obama's proposed reforms to the American health care system during of the summer of 2009. In particular, I investigate on the rhetorical strategies deployed by various conservative political actors who contributed to the derailment of the health care reform …
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Young Adult Women's Responses to Undergoing Treatment for Early Breast Cancer
… from others. The findings identified areas for health care reform. These reforms include areas dealing with increasing the awareness of breast cancer in young adult women, facilitating early breast cancer detection. minimizing delays in treatment, and making adjustments in care such as …
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The Medicare Physician Quality Reporting Initiative : perceived costs and return on investment influencing participation
The US health care industry is widely held view that it is failing in its ability to provide, safe, high quality care for its citizens. Escalating financial costs and regional variability in the provision of care have prompted a change in tactics for public health care administered by CMS (Centers …
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Breast cancer in Chinese media : privatization, cultural politics and subjectivity
… among which the retreat of government from the health care sector and the privatization of health issues is very significant. Chinese people are now required to make their own life choices and to be ‘self-responsible’ in all walks of lives, including their health. Against this general …
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