Health care is one of the most important components in your life. Disease or illness can really mean a down turn in your life. The biggest asset we can have in life therefore is health. Health care is normally defined as the management or treatment of any health problem through the services that might be offered by medical, nursing, dental or any other related service. When you talk about the care of health, you are talking of all goods and services that are produced to improve on your health. They may be curative, preventative or even palliative solutions. A system of health care is one that is organized to give health services to a population or a group of people.
Health care can be for an individual or for a large group of people depending on how the systems are organized. Importance of health care cannot be overemphasized. In society, people are worried about the kinds of systems there are, to deal with issues of health. In developed countries, their systems are designed to cater for all people; whether poor or rich. However, the systems are lacking in regard to flaws. In developing countries, people usually take care of health as an individual thing and, if you do not have enough money, you might not get access to quality care. There are so many disparities and, some systems in certain countries are becoming worse; not able to deal with demand of health. Health is not a cheap affair, you have to have a good system if you want it to work for you. Governments have the responsibility to create or formulate policies that will favor people in this regard. Good systems of health can be erected by the top most leadership of a state.
The importance of good health care can be seen in the hopes of a people who are yearning for health. To become rich or to produce something in life, you have to have that ability or strength. If you are sick, you are likely not to develop yourself in any way. Therefore health is wealth and this is the biggest lesson that we can learn today. When you are in good health, you will be a happy person and enthusiastic about the business of life. Sickly people will dread every moment of their pain and, they are not able to have joy and peace. When it comes to preventative health care like the use of vaccinations, we are going ahead of time and making sure that you are safe from future illnesses. When it comes to prevention of pregnancy as part of care for health, we are able to structure our lives an take control. However, measures such as abortions are pretty controversial.
However, those countries that have legalized abortion need to ensure that people who choose to undergo it are safe and protected. Good health care will give rise to a generation that is ready to take on the world. Diseases have a way of making the future look very deem. For example, the spread of the AIDS virus has really dealt a huge blow on this generation. Proper care is beginning to be felt in many corners of the world especially areas where it is rampant like sub Saharan Africa. Therefore, make sure that no matter whether you are and individual or a group, you prioritize on health. Investing in good care for health is investing in life.
Here this nice Video about health care
The President has long noted that skyrocketing health care costs will be disastrous for our long term national debt unless we pass real reform. In this Weekly Address, the President also explains how he will cover the upfront costs of reform by eliminating overpayments to Medicaid and Medicare and driving down costs contributing to governments health care expenditures across the board. (Public Domain)
UHC is not compatible with individual rights and thus anti-American and immoral.
Basic health care (preventive, child,recovery, and emergency) for American citizens should be nonprofit and paid by taxes. Elective care could remain in the domain of the insurance companies. The problem will be in defining the difference.
I completely agree with the preventative care approach. I lived in Australia for awhile and the government there is big on this. As of today, Australians have an overall longer life expectancy than Americans. I think we can learn a lot from our Aussie friends.
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.
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.
In 1967, Returning troops were affected by strange illnesses. We worked in Doctors from the Veterans Administration to create CHELATED TYPE compounds for poison removal (gb laced heroin + other chemicals that was successful. Oral and IV chealtion plus biological antibiotics is highly effective treatment. AIDS was invented and developed as a weapon of war, a coverup of chemical warfare. Truth will save lives, let the real story of AIDS invention be known to all as treatment is needed for MILLIONS
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.
I would like to see major steps taken towards Universal Healthcare. 65+ other countries have successfully implemented it and we can easily afford it now with what we currently spend per person per year on healthcare. Im tired of having to consider if I REALLY want to go to the hospital for an injury because I know we cant pay the massive bill that’s going to come after it so personal health becomes a budget issue.
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.
make paying for healthcare easier and less complicated. people who don’t want to deal with the sysetem and the costs let go their wealth to be on medicaid. what about it?
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!
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
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I would like to add that it is important to promote disease and illness prevention; but in addition, it is also important to support medical advances that provide permanent solutions. For example, research to define the exact causes for different forms of ADD will yield the technology to pinpoint what form of ADD an individual has and the medication to treat that specific type of ADD permanently–by rebuilding the necessary equilibrium between hormones in the brain.
Also: Laws on junk food?
Until we all get the used to the idea that there is little or no health care in modern medicine nothing will change much. Modern medicine has focused on aetiology of illness, disease, pathology and there has been hardly any resources devoted to the aetiology of health. The nearest it gets to this is preventative medicine which is early diagnosis of pathologies and not promotion of health. One remarkable Pathologist did recognize this problem 50 yrs ago, Dr Scott Williamson, Peckham Experiment
OMG… Obama is considering preventive healthcare? That’s extra awesome! Eat that, giant evil pharmacies!
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!
We hear we cannot afford univeral health care reform. The truth is, if all our citizens get care, the ONLY kind of health care we can afford is universal health care.
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
I think we first need to get the government out of health care. Whenever the government gets involved in anything the price goes up while quality goes down. The government cannot give anything to anyone without stealing it from someone else. Consider the difference in quality between public and private education, yet it generally costs less to educate a student in a private school. Competition and free enterprise keep costs down, not government control.
In any plan made by Clinton the only financial incentives are to put money in her personal bank account.
like ome said, MANY other countries have a much better health system than we do.
i have alot of Canadian freinds and the stories are always the same.
the fact is that these careproviders have already been paid buy the Gov. so when they treat you the ONLY concern is the Hippocratic oath and YOUR well being.
whereas here the size of your wallet determines the lvl of care you get.
after a disability i became uninsurable.
no matter how much money or what plan i picked. DENIDED,DENIDED,DENIDED
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?
Learn from other countries healthcare system, promotion and treatment. What about teaching doctors about different ethics in school?
I don’t know about you, but I can’t fathom too money people who are sitting on $5,000, just waiting to spend it on their next hospital visit.
You may have that money set aside, but most of the country doesn’t.
Please make sure to pass Universal Health Care!! Obama should remember to keep his campaign promises and especially health care for all. If there is one thing that will ensure Obama’s re-election and a long-term democratic majority rule, the passage of universal health care would be the surest way of doing it.
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"?
‘4. Avoid creating a universal health care sytem whereby everyone gets free health care by the government.’
Care to explain why?
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.
I am impressed with your desire to implement more preventative care. Are you aware that Medicare will not pay for a PAP smear. Now there is a basic preventative care issue.
A Retired RN KP
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.
It’d be nice to go to a doctor and concentrate on the illness rather than worrying “How much is this going to cost me?” Its sad that someone could die not because we don’t have enough trained doctors, or that they live in a poor country, but because they just can’t come up with the money.
As a number of others have already stated, what we need is a universal single payer health care system. Anything else that continues to prop up the private health insurance companies, will be nothing more than the equivalent of putting a band aid over a festering wound. Most of those against it either don’t truly understand what it is, or have the attitude “me me me, my my my, get your own”. They don’t understand that they are already paying for uninsured people in terms of higher health costs.
We spent a trillion dollars to help forgieners in the middle east, that kind of money begs the question why didn’t we spend it on health care and our infostructure.
What I would like to change in the health care system is equal access to mental health care. Currently if you are living under the poverty line receiving mental health treatment is incredibly difficult. For example if you are poor and have depression one seeks out help and finds out the cost for therapy and medication is to much. One continues on with no treatment and that makes it difficult to get to work. No work no money.Poverty continues and everyone suffers.
The statement, “As anyone who does even a little research will see,” shows bias, and no real research is provided here to back the claim.
But I agree that “all Americans can be provided [health care] for far less [money] than it costs us now!”
OMG…NO!!!!!!!!!
finally someone listents to the word of the people or so they say, but stil awsum!
Here’s a scary, true fact: The health care industry gave out 500 million dollars in Washington, D.C. last year. That’s over one million dollars per Congress person and Senator. Write, folks, for God’s sake write because it’s the only input we have.
~~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.~~
We need absolutely to have universal health care with no exclusions on pre existing conditions and some real cost containment. Health Insurance should NOT be contingent on having a job! Our privately run health insurance is a mess. So many different plans..how do you know what each covers? There is no way a government run plan could be any worse than what we have now. Lets roll right over those damn conservatives and do something for regular Americans for a change!
David