Healthcare Reform: A Case Study

For health care centers to remain competitive, it is important for them to conduct comprehensive market analysis of their external environments to properly understand important issues affecting their health care marketplace (Ginter, Swayne, & Duncan, 2012). An effective market analysis consists of the following elements: industry overview, target customers, market segmentation, competition and market needs, growth, and trends (CSU-Global, 2015). This paper discusses the components of a valuable market analysis and strategic thinking map for Pocahontas Memorial Hospital’s (PMH) that will help its’ leaders when making strategic marketing decisions for their proposed

Many Americans believe that their health care system is the finest in North America, and probably among the best in the world. This is not true. The American health care system ranked last out of 10 other developed countries’ systems, including Australia, Germany, Canada, France, Sweden, New Zealand, Norway, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, in a survey by the Commonwealth Fund in 2014 (Hellmann). Countries received ranks according to several factors, like access to a physician or quality of care (Hellmann). That same year, an estimated 42 million Americans under age 65 were without health insurance, according to a survey by the Congressional Budget Office (“Health Reform”). America also ranks 26th among 36 countries in the

It should come as no surprise that the United States’ current health care system is in need of some major changes. Everyone knows that going to the doctor or hospital in the United States can cost a lot of money out of pocket, whether you have insurance or not. Americans who do have insurance pay into it with every pay check, only to go to the doctor and have to pay more. What it would be like to not have to worry about how much money there is in the bank when someone is sick? When a person is ill there are enough things to worry about without having to worry if they can afford the doctor bill. What are some of the pros and cons of a health care reform for the United States?

The Obamacare development of the number of insurance coverage will dramatically augment the figure of people by 25 million. A small number over the partly of the recently insured will have indemnity from Medicare (13 million), while on the other hand the additional will expand coverage through confidential insurance purchased on state or federally run wellbeing insurance connections.

Healthcare is an ever-evolving system that has recently undergone many changes. President Obama wanted to establish rules for health insurance companies to increase quality of care and also provide all Americans with access to health insurance regardless of their current health condition. These new rules became known as the Affordable Care Act which was signed into law in 2010. According to Obama, “The Affordable Care Act is the most important health care legislation enacted in the United States since the creation of Medicaid and Medicare in 1965.” (Bauchner, 2016) President Obama outlined many future challenges with the ACA such as the further expansion of Medicaid, controlling the rise in drug prescription costs, and the need for greater

Issue: 4.6 million Texans are currently uninsured without access to affordable healthcare due to the state’s refusal to expand Medicaid or provide additional public health coverage options. Section 1115 of the Social Security Act gives the Secretary of Health and Human Services the authority to approve states’ experimental, pilot, or demonstration projects that promote the objectives of the Medicaid and CHIP programs.

President Obama, on March 23, 2010 signed The Affordable Care Act (ACA). The law was put into place as a comprehensive health insurance reform (Assistant, 2015). The ACA puts preventive care, which includes family planning and related care and renders it more accessible and affordable to countless Americans (Assistant,2015). Additionally, the ACA extends Medicaid to all States equally, it sustains Children Health Insurance Plan (CHIP), while simplifying enrollment for families and individuals (Assistant, 2015). In addition, the ACA boosts community-based care for American with disabilities, and gives States motivation to strategies on how to improve care and the coordination of services for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries (Assistant, 2015).

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) caused some of the issues central to the expansion of Medicaid. Some of the major challenges in Affordable Care Act (ACA) the improved access to more individuals. According to Levitt, Claxton, and Damico (2013), the Affordable Care Act expansion increase limitation to families under 65 whose income is at or below 133% of federal poverty guidelines. This leads into significant growth in eligibility of newly coverage populations. Medicaid provide an opportunity to identify successful enrollment and renewal practices, strategies to ensure access to care, effective models of person-centered and coordinated care, and payment systems that align financial incentives with goals for quality and cost. (Paradise, 2015). Especially

Medicare is very important. It provides much needed support for the elderly and disabled. Medicare’s importance only continues to increase. In order to keep Medicare running, the program is in need of reform. There are a few ways this can be done. I believe the best way to stabilize the financial crisis of Medicare is to completely reform the program into a defined contribution program.

On January 2014, Richard Jouded suffered a mild stroke, Linden Texas were medics had to take him to the local Hospital that was less than a block from his house. However after Richard was dismissed from the Hospital, he learn that the facility was about to close due that weren't enough patients. Small Hospitals always struggle to remain open, due that healthcare providers are being pressured to cut the cost. In addition, "Twenty-four rural Hospitals have closed across the country since the start of 2013, double the pace of the previous 20 months, according to the North Carolina Rural Health Research Program" (Para 5).

Impending, current, and new legislation shapes both the face and minute details of healthcare delivery in the United States. Currently the most dramatic changes have come from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The act has increased the number of insured patients, lowered reimbursements, restructured reimbursements based upon new criteria than previously utilized, and created additional mandates for health care providers and facilities. The changes and impacts for Trinity Community Hospital's (TCH) proposed new service lines will alter how these service lines are organized and how successful they will be going forward. Impending or new legislation in the future has the potential to improve health care for patient and provider

Let me start by staying how affordable is affordable? The Affordable Care Act (ACA) otherwise known as the Obama Care is a health care coverage that is invented for those people who cannot afford to pay for high insurance cost. According to the market place (2014), most people who bought the insurance coverage stated that the “coverage is affordable”. This is factual for those people who have low income and are “paying under 125 dollars per month” Marketplace (2014).

In 2010, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) which put into place health insurance reform with the purpose of providing health care access to those who are uninsured and underinsured. The goals of the law are to make health care affordable, accessible and higher quality. In 2013, open enrollment began and now that three years have passed, it is time to evaluate how this law has impacted Ohioans (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2014-a). In this paper, I will discuss health care reform in Ohio, examine positive and negative outcomes, and look at the effect of the ACA on health care economics.

Obamacare is a another name for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and it's goal and purpose was to restructure and reform the healthcare system and health insurance industries of the United States. The main goal of the act was to provide affordable health insurance to millions of uninsured citizens in the country. The Act is also aimed to increase the access to healthcare as well as provide more efficient means of delivering healthcare to individuals were given a right to see their own medical records and have a more hands on approach when it comes to their health and well-being. In order to convince individuals who were skeptical about participating and cooperating with the new law, financial penalties were created to penalize

Your hospital can be penalized if you are suffering from chronic disease and readmitted within 30 days after the discharge, under the Affordable care act (ACA). ACA has changed the perspective of chronic disease management of hospitals, shifting their focus from treating the conditions to deciding ways to prevent them. Under ACA, hospitals will be penalized or rewarded depending upon their performance on 30-day readmissions, infection control and patient satisfaction levels (1). Are chronic diseases so prevalent and disabling that government has to step in? What could be the impacts of chronic diseases on economy that Government is proposing and enforcing laws to prevent them?