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Can Consumers Control Health-Care Costs?, Mark A. Hall, Carl E. Schneider
Can Consumers Control Health-Care Costs?, Mark A. Hall, Carl E. Schneider
Articles
The ultimate aim of health care policy is good care at good prices. Managed care failed to achieve this goal through influencing providers, so health policy has turned to the only market-based option left: treating patients like consumers. Health insurance and tax policy now pressure patients to spend their own money when they select health plans, providers, and treatments. Expecting patients to choose what they need at the price they want, consumerists believe that market competition will constrain costs while optimizing quality. This classic form of consumerism is today’s health policy watchword. This article evaluates consumerism and the regulatory mechanism …
Assessing The Feasibility And Perceptions Of Health Services For Refugees Of Resettlement Organizations, Heidi Jean Worabo
Assessing The Feasibility And Perceptions Of Health Services For Refugees Of Resettlement Organizations, Heidi Jean Worabo
Dissertations
Background: Since 1975 the U.S. has resettled 2.6 million refugees who had to flee from their home countries. Many refugee resettlement organizations have developed different models of innovation to promote a smooth transition between previous foreign refugee camps to U.S. communities so that refugees swiftly become economically and socially self-sufficient. Providing refugees with health benefits and resources has been foremost priority upon arrival as they try to overcome health care barriers. Yet there is a lack of literature examining the impact of these health services and how they are perceived by the program recipients. Purpose: This scholarly project aimed to …
Madagascar: Transitions In Health Care, Margaret Altepeter
Madagascar: Transitions In Health Care, Margaret Altepeter
Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)
Before actually visiting the country, the author theorized that as the health care system is being transformed from traditional to modern health care in the country of Madagascar, the traditional aspect of health care needs to be heavily incorporated in the transition. In this way, efficacy could be maximized and the cultural practices could be protected. After traveling to Madagascar in 2011 to conduct research as part of her study abroad program, the author found she had had underestimated the extent to which biomedicine was already present in the country. As she visited and interviewed traditional healers, toured biomedical hospitals, …
There Is No Perfect Solution To Health Care In America, Caroline Sommers
There Is No Perfect Solution To Health Care In America, Caroline Sommers
The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law
No abstract provided.
Law & Health Care Newsletter, V. 20, No. 1, Fall 2012
Law & Health Care Newsletter, V. 20, No. 1, Fall 2012
Law & Health Care Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Standards For Health Care Decision-Making: Legal And Practical Considerations, A. Kimberley Dayton
Standards For Health Care Decision-Making: Legal And Practical Considerations, A. Kimberley Dayton
Faculty Scholarship
This Article explores the guardian’s role in making, or assisting the ward to make, health care decisions, and provides an overview of existing standards and tools that offer guidance in this area. Part II outlines briefly the legal decisions and statutory developments assuring patient autonomy in medical treatment, and shows how these legal texts apply to and structure the guardian’s role as health care decision-maker. Part III examines the range of legal and practical approaches to such matters as decision-making standards, determining the ward’s likely treatment preferences, and resolving conflicts between guardians and health care agents appointed by the ward. …