Health Care Proxy Legally Entitles An Authorized Agent To Take Medical Decisions On Your Behalf
The health care proxy is a legal means of choosing an authorized person who is able to make medical decisions on your behalf when circumstances are such that you are yourself unable to make such decisions. The health care proxy is an important legal document, which should be well understood prior to signing it since it will give to another person the authority to make each and every decision relating to your health including deciding to remove, or give treatment meant to sustain your life.
Give Instructions Related To Artificial Nutrition, And More
It is also important for you to state in your health care proxy what you wish for regarding artificial nutrition as well as hydration treatment, which is water given through feeding tubes or intravenous lines, and to allow for such measures to be performed according to your wishes. The authorized agent will be able to make such decisions when the doctor determines that you are not in a suitable condition to take such health related decisions on your own.
You can also write your health care proxy instructions regarding which type of treatments you do not desire as well as those treatments you wish for, and the instructions can also limit the decisions that your agent can, or cannot make. Your agent must follow these instructions to the T when in the process of making decisions on your behalf. There is however no need to have a lawyer to fill out the health care proxy form.
Also, for the authorized agent, you can choose anyone who is an adult and over eighteen years of age, and it can even be a family member as well as a close friend. You may also wish to appoint a doctor as the authorized agent who may then have to choose between acting as your agent, or as the attendant doctor.
Before you appoint someone as your authorized agent in the health care proxy, you should have discussions with such person and ensure that he or she is willing to act on your behalf, and let such person know that he or she will be acting as your authorized agent as per the health care proxy. Sometimes, you may appoint your spouse whom you may at a later time divorce. In such a case, your former spouse will no longer be able to act as your agent, unless you specifically allow for such circumstances.
Signing the health care proxy does still allow you to make your own health care decisions for as long as you are in a condition to do so, and you can continue to receive treatment and your agent will not have a power to object if you raise an objection at some point during your health care treatment. The agent will be voluntarily appointed, and you can also specify how to treat the organs as well as donate them along with tissues.
Here this nice Video about health care
is evidence that John McCain is JUST PLAIN LYING about working constructively across the aisle, this in fact is it. He is criticizing in a personal way, directly, Hillary Clinton’s attempt to put together a health care plan for Americans. I guess he was FOR attacking others with good ideas BEFORE he was AGAINST it too. John McCain & Sarah Palin. They say whatever comes into their heads (which is obviously not much. … Sarah Palin John McCain Lipstick Pig Speech Antique Lies Attack Smear …
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It will. But it goes against the grain for me to let these people suffer on hunger.
We are animals, and theoretically it is that very natural selection we so often decline. Because of the fact that we have a whole different setup, a more advanced society than any living creature, it should not be natural selection. One can easily argue whether it’s the natural selection per se or the natural selection that we create on our own. If we should use laws that are a part of everything, laws we have created, we should also count morality, which would argue against natural selection.
They have a 100 percent covered plan for them and their families for life (assuming they serve at least 6 years), along with an excellent pension plan for life.
They will care about the crisis if it is something the voters want! After all, if they are not acting in the interest of the voters, they will lose their seat and their health care plan.
Unfortunately, there is so much disagreement between the "left" and the "right" that it is difficult for congress to do anything. In addition, many people (even those who truly need health care reforms) vote based on moral values, leaving health care to be ignored.
Okay if you won't have any clinical skills or any managerial/administration skills, just what will you do? You'll have a lot of knowledge but nothing to do with it.
~~This is a mute point because Nationalized insurance is not in the works. All the government is proposing is an alternative for people who can't get employer based insurance to be able to buy directly from the same insurance that senators and congressmen get. Otherwise, business as usual for private insurance companies.~~
Depending on where you live, it may be very similar. Health care management and administration deals much with the same tasks such as budgeting, marketing, meeting with stake holders, dealing with several of hospitals in your given area, organizing and managing the staff that are through various departments. They also are in charge of orchestrating different rules and regulations in process of discipline, hiring and firing etc. through various hospital regions.
I will also provide you a couple of links that may explain things a little clearer to you regarding this.
http://www.aaham.org/
http://www.mshealthcareers.com/careers/healthcareadmin.htm
http://www.healthmanagementcareers.org/careers.cfm
http://www.ache.org/
From what I could see, I believe that you would need a little bit higher than a diploma. It would be either a bachelors or a masters.
Liberals are always saying that we are animals, primate’s descendants … “johnny… ” has a valid point. It’s natural selection. It IS what will enable our species to continue on longer. Multiplying weak genes will be a disaster for our species…
This is sad, but not sad…. just propaganda!
FIRST, The fact that she lost her job is a big CLUE! Secondly, she is relying on others to help her and her sick child, Waa, waaa waaaa…. The sick and diseased are killing the insurance programs. Selective survival of the fittist live on while the weak die off and stop the spread of these illnesses. It’s a law of nature. Doctors and bleeding hearts make you feel bad if they don’t survive!
I lost a wife and child, insurance couldn’t help! FKUBCH
$1400 house payment? Poor lady, we need to help her..
Let me clear the record… I feel bad for this lady and she is worthy of healthcare. But for someone who has healthcare and has worked hard for it, why should I care for the poor? Why should my taxes go to support her?
The Government has a vested interest in a healthy population. ..as it should! The proposed health care plan addresses wellness programs, preventative care, and incentives for business-initiated fitness programs. We’re too fat! Anybody who’s taken Psych 101 understands Maslow’s Heirarchy. Helping to provide for the basic needs allows for more cognitive pursuits. A rising tide lifts all boats.
Not for everyone, but for Medicare 77% costs occurred in the last year of life, 52% of them in the last 2 mo, and 40% in the last month, When you are old and become seriously ill, you are more likely to die than the seriously ill young.
As a member of the healthcare community, we are advised to not be judgemental towards patients. I take pride in being a non-judgemental providing care for all. Have I seen it? Yes. Do I like it? No. Will something be done about it? Hopefully, but probably not.
The fact is, every patient is an individual. Each patient deserves unbiased care to make them as healthy as they can be.
Why can people not understand the simple fact that there is no free lunch. Will doctors treat patients for free, can hospitals run without money. Will drug cos. give away medicines at no charge. Medical care is very expensive and someone has to pay for it. So called free health care will be paid by the government which does not have ANY money it did not first squeeze out of the tax payers. There is no hospital in the country that is allowed to turn away a sick person just because they have no money. Maybe they will not get world class care, but they will be treated.
Back in 1990, the Government seized the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada for tax evasion and, as required by law, tried to run it. They failed and it closed. Why would you trust the country's health care system to a pack of nit-wits who couldn't make money running a whore house and selling booze?
think of the largest number you can – then raise that number to the 10th power
do that for every year.
Bravo. Good analogy
I have a fix for America’s healthcare problem. All citizens are required to stop eating McDonald’s, donuts and candy bars. Everyone must wake up and do 1 1/2 hrs of physical training each morning (just like the military), stop smoking and having sex with strangers. This is a sensible recommendation, but it’ll never happen. American’s are too fat and lazy are becoming dependent on BIG BROTHER to fix there pity problems. We are indeed a civilization in collapse. GO GET YOU WELFARE CHECK LOSERS!
Amazing. Nursing is like the best profession out there. There are so many sub-specialties in all professional areas.
There are about 100 different nursing specialties. See below for the list. I know that doesn't completely answer you question, but the list can give you some ideas. Research, for instance, or Business Administration, There the CSI angle, but the TV show seems to make it more glamorous than it probably really is. Then there are legal nurse consultants.
You can find a list of the highest paying nursing specialties here on the right hand column: http://www.jobs-in-registered-nursing.com/nursing-specialities/index.php
Another approach is to see what all the nursing schools offer.
You can find a list of all nursing schools here: http://www.my-nursing-career.com/nursing-degrees/index.html.
Since you already have your degree, the online option is a good one. You'd be amazed at what is available for nurses online. Check out the nursing degree search here: http://www.my-nursing-career.com/index.php
List of nursing specialties:
* Ambulatory care nursing
* Advanced practice nursing
* Behavioral health nursing
* Burn nursing
* Camp nursing
* Cardiac nursing
* Cardiac catheter laboratory nursing
* Case management
* Clinical nurse specialist
* Clinical research nurse
* Community health nursing
* Correctional nursing
* Critical care nursing
* Developmental disabilities nursing
* District nursing
* Emergency nursing
* Environmental Health nursing
* Flight nursing
* Forensic nursing
* Gastroenterology nursing
* Genetics nursing
* Geriatric nursing
* Health visiting
* Hematology oncology nursing
* HIV/AIDS nursing
* Home health nursing
* Hospice nursing
* Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Nursing
* Intavenous therapy nursing
* Infectious disease nursing
* Legal nursing
* Legal Nurse Investigator
* Maternal-child nursing
* Matron
* Medical-surgical nursing
* Military and uniformed services nursing
* Neonatal nursing
* Neuro-surgical nursing
* Nurse anesthetist
* Nurse-midwife
* Nurse practitioner
* Nursing educator
* Nursing informatics
* Nursing management
* Obstetrics gynecology nursing
* Occupational health nursing
* Oncology nursing
* Operating room nursing
* Orthopaedic nursing
* Ostomy nursing
* Pain management and palliative care nursing
* Pediatric nursing
* Perianesthesia nursing
* Perioperative nursing
* Plastic and reconstructive surgical nursing
* Private duty nursing
* Psychiatric or mental health nursing
* Public health
* Pulmonary nursing
* Quality improvement
* Radiology nursing
* Rehabilitation nursing
* Renal dialysis nursing
* Renal nursing
* Research
* School nursing
* Sub-acute nursing
* Substance abuse nursing
* Surgical Nursing
* Telenursing
* Telemetry nursing
* Telephone triage nursing
* Transplantation nursing
* Travel nursing
* Urology nursing
* Utilization management
* Wound care
Stop being so selfish! WHY? Let me tell you. I had insurance. It covered 1/2 of what was needed. We had to pay the other 1/2. Close to 40k dollars in less than 1 year! It took 5 years to pay off. Single payer is CHEAPER than the junk-insurance we have. So how many YEARS of taxes would equal 40k and how many more people would it help? INCLUDING YOU-you greedy bum!
Are you kidding? Laissez-faire has been happening for decades and people are dying because of it. 18,000 a year die because they are uninsured and can’t get access to healthcare. As a healthcare financial manager for 15 years, I can assure you that NO one is for laissez-faire when it comes to their own loved ones. You’d say “no Nat’l Healthcare if it meant the difference between life and death for your wife, son or daughter, sister or brother?
If you have a really good health food store with knowledgeable people I would ask who they might know or suggest. Also the Internet site www. alternative medicine for Maine would hopefully give some info. Good Luck
You need to talk with a local agent that works with all of the major companies in your area. Insurance companies and the plans they offer will vary from state to state and the premium with any one plan can vary by zip code.
At 22 if you are in good health you should be able to find a catastrophic plan for less than $100 in most states and a comprehensive plan shouldn't be much more than $100.
The agent will be able to explain what you need to know – there is not enough space here to tell you everything. You'll need to know about the deductible, the co-insurance, the co-pays and what is covered with the co-pay, what procedures are and are not subject to the deductible, what is excluded from the plans, which doctors accept the plans, the different types of plans and how they operate, the prescription coverage if any, and much more. There is no extra charge using an agent.
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we just hired two people in the compliance department at the hospital where I work. Neither had experience in compliance but lots of experience in healthcare. Keep watching for job opportunities, read as much as you can about compliance – the regulations seem to change daily!
This is how gov-care looks in Canada an UK. It is hell.
/watch?v=_vNQFa_4S80
I bet Obama and his family won’t be on the nationalized health care plan that he is promoting. He doesn’t send his daughters to a public school, they are in a private school. Obama is a hypocrite. If he wants this plan to pass he should add to the plan that Congress and all politicians and their families must be on the national plan. Think it’ll ever happen ? No, because he is a narcissistic egomaniac who thinks that he is better than you and he wants to tell you how to live your life.
They don't and this is why i think mccains strategy to win is flawless.He's running so much negative stuff on obama until obama has to spend most of his time defending himself thus meaning mccain has yet to talk about his plans for the economy,healthcare or any of that stuff.And to think people have the nerve to say whats obama's plan.Whats Mccains except talking about war?
Interesting view from a doctor:
/watch?v=BugRMHaL3lU
Canada's healthcare isn't perfect. Neither is the US. From what I've heard from people who've moved from the US to Canada, quality of care and wait times are far better here in the US. Most people would rather pay for a higher standard of care and shorter wait times than move to a lower standard of care and far longer wait times for free. The fact that Canada is losing many of it's better doctors and nurses to the US should tell you something about the situation.
I wouldn't want a socialized healthcare system period. What I would like to see is a reform in the US healthcare system, especially in terms of US insurance companies. In the words of Obama "why take a hatchet to something that only requires a scalpel"?
this is what president Ron Paul says about the healthcare:
/watch?v=iSO40q0fpPg
I've encountered a payroll services company that also manages pre-tax health savings or spending accounts for small and mid-sized companies. You might check them out. PrimePay is the name of the company.
I want everyone to take a hard look at socialized medicine and realize that it really doesn’t take care of anyone’s major health care needs. Hell, just take a look at canada, what a mess.
It doesn't fail, almost every first world country has it setup as a system.
Unless of course you view treatment of the poorer people a failure.
The benefit to not treating a lot of people, is faster care for the wealthy.
If you don't want to have universal health care, the government can step in and price fix medical procedures like they do in japan. It works okay for them. They can afford adequate medical treatment because the government forces it to be affordable, and the same prices in rural as in urban areas.
The real problem with our system, coming from someone who has an entire family in medicine (Doctors, surgeons, nurses)…is the insurance companies. They buffer every side. The doctors, the hospital, the patients, everyone has to get insurance, and they are the ones forcing prices higher and higher.
I am currently researching grants to non-profit organizations in order to find funding for parent support groups for parents of children with disabilities, and would be glad to forward m Excell Spreadsheet on
Grants to those providing their e-mail address.
I know that insurance companies like Blue Cross and Aetna have set-up foundations to provide grants to non-profits engaged in educating young people in healthcare matters.
my email:
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Here's something to think about: according to the census bureau, of the 47 million or so that are uninsured almost 10 million are illegal immigrants, 8 million make over 75,000 a year, another 8 million make over 50,000 a year, and 14 million qualify for medic-aid or medicare but do not apply. Hmmm. makes you think that maybe our system isn't so bad after all. So Obama needs to quit with his fear mongering and quit lying to us. There are a lot of unemployed, but 47 million is very misleading. Give us a real number!
Also the idea is that by giving health care to everyone, businesses don't have to pay for it, and then they can give more jobs, increase profit, and help the economy. Which sounds great, if you're stupid. Since Universal health care is insanely expensive, guess who pays for it? raised taxes on business and on the rich, (and apparently companies that aren't green). So it's basically a beat-around the the bush way to distribute wealth. And ask yourself this? Is it a good idea to take from from the rich? Take money from a poor man, and he becomes poorer, take money from a rich man, and he goes to work and fires his workers. So which is worse? MAYBE GOVERNMENT JUST SHOULDN'T TAKE PEOPLES MONEY!
Everyone is one disease away from bankruptcy. Why don’t you check out the stats. MORE THAN HALF of all bankruptcies are due to MEDICAL EMERGENCIES.
Get over it. The world’s not fair and that some people just won’t make it.
Your comment is despicable. Frankly, the only one collecting welfare checks since the Republicans bankrupted our government are those CEO’s of big oil, big pharma, big insurance, and big banks on Wall Street.
We are business owners. We work 80 hours a week. We educate and take care of our families. We’re sick of people like you who blame welfare and call people losers. The only loser is you for being unable to look past your own bigotry.
Thank you.
The difference between Humans and Animals is that we help other and weaker people. (No animal does) Of course you can say animals don’t but if we do, we are like animals.
In any plan made by Clinton the only financial incentives are to put money in her personal bank account.
You’re lying. Canada has very few issues, despite the myriad of myths that the Republicans put out there. The majority of Canadians would refuse to give up their insurance for ours. And when people point a negative finger to Canada, they are pointing to a very few people .
No National Health Care! I feel bad for her, but the Government should practice frugal monetary policys. Let Laissez-faire happen and everything will straigthen itself out.
Sadly, on this one specific statistic, you are very correct.
Exactly… dont vote for her. Amazingly enough, while on the Board of Walmart, she helped devise the current scheme to avoid providing health care to as many employees as possible…
i never seen somone lookin so good complaining!!!! wtf america is so spioled, fuck your kid….
I agree with a lot of what Nemisis said, but I think I can simplify it even further.
Insurance is gambling. How do we keep Casino's from getting more and more corrupt, like the insurance industry is?
Caps on profits. If an insurance company had to pay out 90 cents of every dollar that it takes in, it would have to lower premiums. Pass transparent billing, enforce contract law and anti-trust laws. That is very important too, but if insurance companies were obligated to return a percentage of what they take in, not a percentage of net, but a percentage of each and every dollar they touch, health care costs would come down to a realistic level.
One law, enforce the others. Done!
I worked in the Emergency Room for a long time. After awhile you learn that death is as much a part of life as life itself. Healthcare workers have free counseling at their disposal to help deal with those situations. Death is a part of living; I learned that one morning two years ago when I suffered a massive heart attack that should have killed me, I learned that three weeks ago when my friend died. Death is never easy to deal with; but when you're in the healtcare field you learn to keep your distance; you have to or it would kill you. I've seen children come in from drownings and baby's who were murdered at the hands of the very people who was suppose to protect them. Those, my friend, are the hardest deaths to deal with.
Death is not something we accept but IT IS something we learn to live with.