Defining Healthcare Policy
Defining Health and Identifying Influences on Healthcare Policy
Southern New Hampshire University
Defining Health and Identifying Influences on Healthcare Policy Today’s news and casual discussion eventually end up focusing on the state of healthcare in the United States. This is typically followed closely by opinions on how it needs to be changed to make sure everyone in the population remains healthy and can afford care. Healthcare in itself is much too broad of a topic for a simple solution but one thing that can be focused on is what our definition of health is and how is it being affected by current policies in Washington D.C. “If you asked 10 individuals what the definition of health is, you would more than likely get 10 different …show more content…
We have watched the face of healthcare change into a business amalgamation. Political spending by the health industries has increased 73 percent since 2000. Health interests contributed $94 million to candidates for Congress in the 2008 cycle. Major health care interests have spent $1.4 million per day this year lobbying Congress. Zaharoff (2009) “Cream Skimming” or “Cherry Picking” of the healthy and denial of health to the sick are what have been left. Systems of health maintenance organizations (HMOs) have sprung up to contain cost but have a focus on “…powerful self-interest in eliminating the inappropriate care” Folland (2013), S. We have to ask ourselves, what right do businesses have in determining what is inappropriate care? Most insurance companies today still hesitate to cover pre-existing conditions in order to keep the insured population less expensive and in turn health suffers as the sick get less …show more content…
(September 9, 2012) Nurses influence health policies Retrieved from: http://www.seacostonline.com/articles/20120909-LIFE-209090328
Folland, S. (2013) The Economics of Health and Healthcare. (7th ed., pp. 195-209). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.
Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research & Educational Trust. (2013) 2013 Kaiser/HRET Employer Health Benefits Survey Retrieved from: http://www.kff.org/private-insurance/report/2013- employer-health-benefits on April 08, 2014
Leavitt, J.K. (February 5, 2012) Linking practice, policy and politics: Using nursing power to improve health. Presentation: Arlington, VA. Nurse in Washington Internship (NIWI) Program.
Paone, S. Module Two History of Health Insurance in the United States [PDF document] . Retrieved from Lecture Notes Online Web Site: https://bb.snhu.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-2561845-dt-content-rid-4 936368_1/xid-4936368_1
Preamble to the Constitution of the World Health Organization as adopted by the International Health Conference, New York, 19-22 June, 1946; signed on 22 July 1946 by the representatives of 61 States (Official Records of the World Health Organization, no. 2, p. 100) and entered into force on 7 April
Southern New Hampshire University
Defining Health and Identifying Influences on Healthcare Policy Today’s news and casual discussion eventually end up focusing on the state of healthcare in the United States. This is typically followed closely by opinions on how it needs to be changed to make sure everyone in the population remains healthy and can afford care. Healthcare in itself is much too broad of a topic for a simple solution but one thing that can be focused on is what our definition of health is and how is it being affected by current policies in Washington D.C. “If you asked 10 individuals what the definition of health is, you would more than likely get 10 different …show more content…
We have watched the face of healthcare change into a business amalgamation. Political spending by the health industries has increased 73 percent since 2000. Health interests contributed $94 million to candidates for Congress in the 2008 cycle. Major health care interests have spent $1.4 million per day this year lobbying Congress. Zaharoff (2009) “Cream Skimming” or “Cherry Picking” of the healthy and denial of health to the sick are what have been left. Systems of health maintenance organizations (HMOs) have sprung up to contain cost but have a focus on “…powerful self-interest in eliminating the inappropriate care” Folland (2013), S. We have to ask ourselves, what right do businesses have in determining what is inappropriate care? Most insurance companies today still hesitate to cover pre-existing conditions in order to keep the insured population less expensive and in turn health suffers as the sick get less …show more content…
(September 9, 2012) Nurses influence health policies Retrieved from: http://www.seacostonline.com/articles/20120909-LIFE-209090328
Folland, S. (2013) The Economics of Health and Healthcare. (7th ed., pp. 195-209). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.
Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research & Educational Trust. (2013) 2013 Kaiser/HRET Employer Health Benefits Survey Retrieved from: http://www.kff.org/private-insurance/report/2013- employer-health-benefits on April 08, 2014
Leavitt, J.K. (February 5, 2012) Linking practice, policy and politics: Using nursing power to improve health. Presentation: Arlington, VA. Nurse in Washington Internship (NIWI) Program.
Paone, S. Module Two History of Health Insurance in the United States [PDF document] . Retrieved from Lecture Notes Online Web Site: https://bb.snhu.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-2561845-dt-content-rid-4 936368_1/xid-4936368_1
Preamble to the Constitution of the World Health Organization as adopted by the International Health Conference, New York, 19-22 June, 1946; signed on 22 July 1946 by the representatives of 61 States (Official Records of the World Health Organization, no. 2, p. 100) and entered into force on 7 April