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Running Head: AMERICAN HEALTHCARE




     The Rise of Worldwide Healthcare Disparities and the fall of Americans Dollar

                         Anthony Wallace, Master Candidate

                   P.C.D.I Healthcare and Consultants of Texas, LLC
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                                                                             America Healthcare




                                             Forward



I want to dedicate this essay to God and the hard work and gifts that he has allowed me to share

with my readers. I want all my experiences, education, and heart to exemplify my passion for the

field. I want to dedicate this essay to my mother and those professionals that are in the field who

has given me the encouragement that I needed to keep going instead of quitting. God Bless
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                                                                           American Healthcare



                                             Abstract



This article will express to the reader the different social models of medical coverage that are

offered around the globe. The article will have different philosophies that will emphasis the

need for governmental interventions in our American healthcare system to prevent waste. We

will then explore other options regarding “hard and soft saves” within the insurance industry.

The methods used in this article, will make my argument stronger for much needed attention

toward our funding for organizations that render free healthcare to the poor and low-middle

class. The article will also compare other social insurance policies globally in comparison to

the United States. I am using social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and WHO, and past

study materials to study foreign governmental healthcare policies and interventions to relieve

the poor.


Key Words: American healthcare, healthcare, social insurance, poor health, health
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                                                                              American healthcare



Introduction:


 This essay will inform the reader of the rise in healthcare disparities within the regional area of

 Texas and the global impact of America’s economy. I want my readers to understand that the

 impact of illness vs. prevention may save Americans more money then we spend. Americans

 spends trillions of dollars in healthcare expenses than any other country. According to a

 documentary, that I have seen on Netflicks “Sick around the World” follows a researcher who

 traveled the globe in search of which country has the best healthcare policy or coverage. The

 focus is to find out does social healthcare work.


       We will explore many options of comparative healthcare models but the number one

 thing is to look at the give and takes of each health policy. For example, the healthcare plan

 may have lower premiums but the catch may be employer favored based (EFB) politics causing

 “selective hiring.” Selective hiring is a term that has conditions such as diabetes, high

 cholesterol, etc that may pose a higher premium payment for the employer. This may prevent

 the prospective employee from getting hired. I hope that I can bring some insight to my readers

 and educate them on how others (globally) may feel about our healthcare system versus their

 healthcare system.


       The references that I have included in my paper will make my augment much stronger in

 defense to the marking of the American Healthcare System (AHS). Our healthcare market
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today, is a market that is quite vast in relieving the poor from immediate disparity. The fact that

Americans want an instant healthcare system is quite demanding on the healthcare services.


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The global health care aspect of the paper will compare the United States systematic expensive

healthcare system vs. the National healthcare Insurance System in the foreign countries.


      Healthcare is vastly growing with new diseases and procedures that is used to treat them.

We can brighten up our horizons by educating more people on preventive medicines vs.

distributing extensive medication that most cannot afford. The references that I have included

in my paper will not only further educate the consumers but will enlighten the consumer to

other forms of medical techniques, alternative procedures of wellness, and the financial

direction out of medical debt.


Medical Comparisons


The American Healthcare System is not only vast in its structure but it can become very

complicated. I have talked to other providers that are practicing physicians and they all have

said “Medicine doesn’t pay like it use too.” I wondered to myself what the use mean in that

statement. I imagine that going to school so many years to learn an art that heals people and

pays good money will cause a person to say “it doesn’t pay like it use too.” As a Home

Healthcare Administrator, I have to look at all options for reimbursement for services that is

rendered to the patients. Our healthcare system is bleeding and I wanted to look at other options

of finding out what works.
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      In the game of healthcare, it is just like chess. We must get all the patients before

someone else does or suffer the consequences. Most that are in the administration game must

find creative ways on saving the agency money as well as the patients that they care for. It is

very impossible to care for patients that cannot pay the fees that the agency is charging.


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Medicare is charging $99.00 (USD) for its premiums but who can pay that when you are living

on social security and government assistance. It is impossible for the patients to pay for

medicine and eat and the same time. I run a small company that is vastly wide in the United

States and the United Kingdom. I have seen firsthand how patients may suffer as a result of

cuts in Medicare and state medical funding.


      P.C.D.I Healthcare and Consultants of Texas is a global healthcare company that gives

aid to patients that are in medical need. As the Administrator, I must look at the American

healthcare system as well as national insurance systems of reimbursements. In America, our

healthcare system was built based on structures of payments, gatekeepers, reimbursements, and

payments made by the patients or co-pays. The National Insurance structures are government

enforced to prevent over inflation of governmental healthcare debt. Most would call this social

healthcare. The national insurance program will deduct payments from the employees check

just as if they are the employer insurance premiums. Everyone must have a job in order to get

the national insurance full coverage. The opposite would be if the patient did not have a job.

The patient will go the governmental clinics, which will treat them for a fee less than $100.00

(local currency) for check up, surgery, and other services.
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      I have a student that I taught in Ghana, Africa. He was a young man without a job and

now according to his testimony he is now a Registered Nurse at Tamale General Hospital. The

healthcare system in Africa is quite different from America. A patient in Ghana must present

$100.00 (Ghanaian Dollars) for treatment to see the doctor that could be miles away.




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This $100.00 (GD) only covers the doctor’s visits and the stay for a couple of days. This fee

does not include surgical interventions if needed. The family will have to hustle money quickly

in order to save their love ones. In America, it is a crime to deny a patient emergency treatment

due to payment. The patient has to be stable enough before turning them away for treatment.

Most county hospitals will care for many homeless, low-income, and uninsured patients. This is

the reason why the city taxes are fluctuating. Many governmental grants may be available to

relieve cities hospitals from this burden. It is important that we find ways to help those that are

in need because it does affect everybody.


      The licensed providers in America, provides care to all individuals with a care plan,

tailored for the indigent poor, vulnerable communities, and the mental ill. It is a state

mandatory requirement to have plans to care for the poor and vulnerable communities. The

vulnerable community category includes the elderly population, bed-fast patients, children, and

low-income patients. When writing policies and certificates of need (CON) to practice as a

hospital, clinic, or home health


      care provider there must be policies regarding financial ability to care for the

communities that are most affected by environmental influence of illness. Most of the
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healthcare facilities go under within a year because of the lack of planning for the patients that

cannot afford the services provided.


      We as healthcare professionals must lobby for change at the governmental level. The

change must come from the patient’s testimonies of hardships, lack of harmony with wellness

vs. finances, etc.


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These countless acts of greed on our government part of cutting Medicare funding must stop. If

there are significant cuts to the Medicare and Medicaid funding, there will be many agencies

closing including free aid agencies.


      In many countries, social healthcare is viewed as the primary way of living. It is the most

reliable way of affordable healthcare. I spoke to a cab driver “Benny” about wages and

healthcare in Mexico. Benny informed me that the patient pays for all healthcare expenses and

not the Mexican government. The wages in Mexico are paid weekly in the form of pesos. The

wages are no more than average 100 pesos that is $7.75 a week minus the taxes taken from the

employee’s wages. This is not fair but big corporate companies do it every day. This is why

most jobs are outsourced. It will save millions to pay workers less than what they are worth for

the same job here in the United States.


      The decisions that United States makes regarding healthcare can make a lasting

impression on the Global aspect of financing healthcare. Other counties are affected by

healthcare change but one that I was told about was the Republic of the Philippines. I spoke to

two (2) of my colleagues that are Nurses in the Philippines and I was informed about their
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    National Insurance Programs (NIP). 1 The national insurance in the Philippines is expensive

    and can be costly to the poor. For example, there is a $15.00 (PHP) charge for services at the

    poor clinic for treatment and some medicines.




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    The nurses on average are earning 13,000 a year as a professional (BSN) nurse. The cost to the

    patient for treatment and discharge medicine is around15.00 (PHP) that is 0.36 (USD) for

    treatment. This is ridicules for patients to suffer due to the lack of funds. This figure may seem

    cheap but limited employment opportunities, this can become a life or death situation. Most

    patients will not see a doctor or practitioner because of the lack of citizenship or funds (Xiung,

    2012).


          Many patients are suffering with the agony of pain and anguish due to the lack of

    insurance in America. We are wasting healthcare dollars on many unnecessary treatments that

    may or may not work. Most of our healthcare dollars are coming into the hands of

    Administrators that commit fraud. The statues need to become tougher to catch acts of fraud

    and prevent Medicare waste. America is the home of the brave and the leaders of many positive

    causes such as foreign aid, ministry missions, and economic growth.


    Many people from other countries perceive that America is rich because of what is being

    described in the news media. Most of the news media perceive America to be wasteful and

    ungrateful. In some instance, we are because of the many unnecessary purchases that are made.
1
 The information that was taken to highlight the National Insurance coverage in the countries spoken
above are there to protect the identity. The sources are from Ghana (GD), Mexico, and the Philippines. I did
not get any signatures to use in the study. PHP is Philippines Pasco, BSN is bachelor science in nursing, and
DOP is Dominican Republic Pasco.
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    The status quos of our time can manifest as greed, which in the end promotes disease. This is

    why most patients from other countries will not see healthcare insurance any other way but to

    have the government take over the responsibility of caring for its citizen’s healthcare.


          For example, in Santo Domingo, Dominican patients are responsible for their healthcare

    expenses with little help from governmental healthcare insurance but the practitioner/physician

    is paid a sum of $400.00 (DOP) a month that is about $10.18 (USD).


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    In my opinion, low wages in these countries can contribute to the problem associated within the

    quality of healthcare services rendered.




    Methods


    The methods section of the study mainly focused on healthcare comparison between the United

    States and the other countries at random. I wanted to compare the information used by past

    studies as a formulation base for improving or discovering new information. The sources of

    information gathered from public social websites such as facebook, blog space, and twitter.

    P.C.D.I Healthcare and Consultants runs a blog page that practitioners from all areas of the

    globe can answer questions regarding healthcare in their countries.


          The population sample that were tested were 170 (in the entire group) people. The test

    only came back with 7 practitioners of different medical arts from Naturopathy (2), Nursing

    (2), Chiropractic (1), Layman (2)2. The questions range from healthcare impact on the poor to
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 The population sample was small including 116 volunteers in the group of facebookers. The Layman were
people that hold no degree or title in healthcare. Anthony Wallace is the facilitor of the research group.
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    major impact of disease. The majority of my population samples were from the United States

    (135), the Philippines (30), Africa (3), India (4), England/Europe (3), and Israel (1). The

    population majority were not healthcare professionals but were seeking alternative healthcare

    knowledge (USA). The foreign participates were either alternative therapist, doctors of the

    healing arts, or nurses.




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          The study lasted for 8 weeks during the first day of class starting in August 2012 to the

    last day of class ending in October of 2012. The questions were simple to read and the

    volunteers had up to a week to answer the questions that were displayed on the company

    facebook blog page. The practitioner then put questions on the board with percentages added

    for easy calculations. The practitioner added the background reasoning on comparing

    healthcare insurances to national insurance.


          One participant told me that the major disease that is plaguing the Philippine population

    is TB (tuberculosis)3. According to the participant, this can become a very expensive disease

    because there is a high influx of unemployed persons there in the Philippines. The government

    insurance will cover some of the expense but the rest of the expense can be costly to the patient

    that is unemployed. After the interview, I checked for more information of the diseases that

    cause so much money and no cure. I check the Philippines vital statistics website and found

    that TB is not the leading cause of sickness it is pneumonia. About 780,199 citizens were


3
 Tuberculosis is a highly contagious disease that can start from anywhere in the body and land in the lungs causing
decay of tissue by dangerous bacteria. This disease can transmitted by air droplets by the patients by coughing or
sneezing. TB bacteria can be carried up to 3ft before dropping out of the air.
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    carriers of this dangerous virus/bacteria that causes pneumonia. This can spread through the

    village in matter of days4 (National Statistical Coordination Baord , 2012).


          This is also a startling fact that may plague other countries such as Africa with its

    HIV/AIDS outbreaks maybe due to limited medication and ignorance of disease transmission.

    This among all needs to be addressed within government prevention programs.


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    In my study, I wanted find ways of educating the public regarding the comparison of healthcare

    programs for the poor and treatment programs as well. According to the past study burden of

    the poor, it clearly states that the non-communicable diseases are less important than

    communicable diseases (Gwatkins DR, 1999). The communicable disease pose more of treat

    to the environment as a pandemic infection, it poses more spending of city charities healthcare

    dollars, and can have devastating effect on the city commerce.


          The study participants were somewhat hesitant to answer the questions due to who was

    watching the dialogue. I tried to make it clear that fact and opinions will not be taken as

    offensive. The participants from Africa and the Philippines were the first to answer. The

    questions are listed in the supporting documents of the paper. The main question was “how do

    you see National Insurance in your country?”All answers to the questions were quite interesting

    because most similar to all that participate in the National insurance program. Most of the

    answers lean toward feeling sorry for the poorest citizens. Mainly, the country is in need of

    money for the poor due to limited employment opportunities to support themselves.



4
  The website for the source of vital statistics for the Philippines http://nscb.gov.ph/secstat/d_vital.asp. It dates back
to the year 2008.
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       After consideration, the national insurance is not the only opportunity out there for good

 healthcare. Some according the documentary will swear by it because American premiums are

 too high. It is always a catch 22 to any good healthcare program. Europe and also Canada, you

 may not go see a specialist until a certain amount of time. The period may be 2-3 weeks before

 the patients can receive any advanced specialty care. As Americans, we can go to the specialist

 the next day if need be.




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 The only bonus to the National Insurance Program is that it is completely paid in full for

 everything in such as hospital stays, medicines, regular doctors visits, etc.


Summaries


 My audience answered majority of the questions (1,2,3,5). The totally percentage was not

 calculated because it was all open-ended questions. The focus of the questionnaire is to

 compare the similarities of the National Insurance and the American Healthcare system. My

 study was conclusive that national insurance works, it may not benefit most of the poor but

 with the money saved without high insurance premiums we can convert monies to help those

 citizens that are in most need of medical services. We need to lobby for more free clinics to

 treat the poor, more programs that give the poor independence by paying co-pays, and getting

 more direction from front line practitioners that really know what the patients need. There are

 always going to be many people on the opposite side of the table but we can all come to an

 agreement on proper preventive programs that reduce medical cost.
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          For example, progressing research in healthcare finance, interviewing and assessing

    patient’s needs, proper screening criteria for government benefits, proper field testing for data

    collection and non-bias processing, and lastly ensure program development and implementation

    of programs are done correctly. These are all ways of starting our healthcare reform in the right

    direction.




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    On all healthcare plans, there has to be limits and boundaries set to protect the vulnerable

    populations such as the poor, women, children, and uneducated (Martin, 2011) In some

    countries, NIP is considered a mandatory taxation and by not paying the taxes will land the

    citizen in jail. The participants that were interviewed, had no problem in paying the national

    insurances taxes.


          It is the practitioners that are going broke behind the reimbursement rates. The education

    maybe free but the life of a physician is 24 hours a day with $400.00 pesos a month5. That is

    again $10.18 a month (USD). We can do better with aid to other countries but before we can

    help anyone else, we must help ourselves. So many problems need to be worked out here in

    America first. Let us band together and let the congress know that funding programs that are

    not needed take them off and put plans to recover, provide low-cost healthcare coverage, and

    promote job security.

5
 This information came from an interviewee, that lives in Santo, Domingo, Dominican. The source is a
reliable source of information. All Conversions of money came from my converter app on the Samsung
network.
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Recommendation


In my recommendation, this is quite important when calculating the cost of soft to hard saves

within the insurance industry. Most indigent poor persons cannot afford proper healthcare thus

making it very hard for the agency to catch its “second wind.” We must come up with new

agendas in addressing new healthcare reform. The difference within the industry is defined as

hard saving are when insurance companies has taken a bad “hit” with millions spent but was

able to get the case manager to stop the bleeding.


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The soft saves comes from having the patients take a less expensive road to recovery such as

discharging the patient home to finish out at a rehab or with the assistance of home healthcare.

With this saying “The more you keep the patients out of the hospital the lower the cost and

savings.”


      The American Healthcare System and National Insurance philosophies are the same as

making healthcare “affordable” but my study has concluded that it is not afford both ways. As

explained before, every cut and gain has a consequence. We must have checks and balances to

every plan. We must set plans to recover in cases of emergency spending or deficit. The cuts

are causing the facilities to bleed and business to go under. Let’s start by thinking outside the

box and seeing healthcare as a growing trend of technological and philosophical thoughts of

revolution. Take care and be in good health.
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                                                                         American Healthcare



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Chen, C. Y. (2012). Overlapping Prescription of Stimulants for Children and Adolesants with
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David R Gwatkim, M. G. (November 1999). The Burden of Disease Among the Global Poor.
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Fidler, D, Dragner, N (2006). Health and Foreign Policy. Geneva: World Health Organization.

Grall, T. (2009). Current Population Reports: Controdial Mothers and Fathers and their Child
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                                         Appendix 1

       Questions used in the research



     1. What makes a good healthcare provider?


     2. What is your definition of culture sensitivity toward a patient?


     3. What can you do to improve company culture to enhance positive patient outcomes?


     4. What do you think about the healthcare policy in your neighborhood


     5. How can we as healthcare providers help those in need?


       .
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National health insurance social media study

  • 1. 1 Running Head: AMERICAN HEALTHCARE The Rise of Worldwide Healthcare Disparities and the fall of Americans Dollar Anthony Wallace, Master Candidate P.C.D.I Healthcare and Consultants of Texas, LLC
  • 2. 2 America Healthcare Forward I want to dedicate this essay to God and the hard work and gifts that he has allowed me to share with my readers. I want all my experiences, education, and heart to exemplify my passion for the field. I want to dedicate this essay to my mother and those professionals that are in the field who has given me the encouragement that I needed to keep going instead of quitting. God Bless
  • 3. 3 American Healthcare Abstract This article will express to the reader the different social models of medical coverage that are offered around the globe. The article will have different philosophies that will emphasis the need for governmental interventions in our American healthcare system to prevent waste. We will then explore other options regarding “hard and soft saves” within the insurance industry. The methods used in this article, will make my argument stronger for much needed attention toward our funding for organizations that render free healthcare to the poor and low-middle class. The article will also compare other social insurance policies globally in comparison to the United States. I am using social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and WHO, and past study materials to study foreign governmental healthcare policies and interventions to relieve the poor. Key Words: American healthcare, healthcare, social insurance, poor health, health
  • 4. 4 American healthcare Introduction: This essay will inform the reader of the rise in healthcare disparities within the regional area of Texas and the global impact of America’s economy. I want my readers to understand that the impact of illness vs. prevention may save Americans more money then we spend. Americans spends trillions of dollars in healthcare expenses than any other country. According to a documentary, that I have seen on Netflicks “Sick around the World” follows a researcher who traveled the globe in search of which country has the best healthcare policy or coverage. The focus is to find out does social healthcare work. We will explore many options of comparative healthcare models but the number one thing is to look at the give and takes of each health policy. For example, the healthcare plan may have lower premiums but the catch may be employer favored based (EFB) politics causing “selective hiring.” Selective hiring is a term that has conditions such as diabetes, high cholesterol, etc that may pose a higher premium payment for the employer. This may prevent the prospective employee from getting hired. I hope that I can bring some insight to my readers and educate them on how others (globally) may feel about our healthcare system versus their healthcare system. The references that I have included in my paper will make my augment much stronger in defense to the marking of the American Healthcare System (AHS). Our healthcare market
  • 5. 5 today, is a market that is quite vast in relieving the poor from immediate disparity. The fact that Americans want an instant healthcare system is quite demanding on the healthcare services. American healthcare The global health care aspect of the paper will compare the United States systematic expensive healthcare system vs. the National healthcare Insurance System in the foreign countries. Healthcare is vastly growing with new diseases and procedures that is used to treat them. We can brighten up our horizons by educating more people on preventive medicines vs. distributing extensive medication that most cannot afford. The references that I have included in my paper will not only further educate the consumers but will enlighten the consumer to other forms of medical techniques, alternative procedures of wellness, and the financial direction out of medical debt. Medical Comparisons The American Healthcare System is not only vast in its structure but it can become very complicated. I have talked to other providers that are practicing physicians and they all have said “Medicine doesn’t pay like it use too.” I wondered to myself what the use mean in that statement. I imagine that going to school so many years to learn an art that heals people and pays good money will cause a person to say “it doesn’t pay like it use too.” As a Home Healthcare Administrator, I have to look at all options for reimbursement for services that is rendered to the patients. Our healthcare system is bleeding and I wanted to look at other options of finding out what works.
  • 6. 6 In the game of healthcare, it is just like chess. We must get all the patients before someone else does or suffer the consequences. Most that are in the administration game must find creative ways on saving the agency money as well as the patients that they care for. It is very impossible to care for patients that cannot pay the fees that the agency is charging. American healthcare Medicare is charging $99.00 (USD) for its premiums but who can pay that when you are living on social security and government assistance. It is impossible for the patients to pay for medicine and eat and the same time. I run a small company that is vastly wide in the United States and the United Kingdom. I have seen firsthand how patients may suffer as a result of cuts in Medicare and state medical funding. P.C.D.I Healthcare and Consultants of Texas is a global healthcare company that gives aid to patients that are in medical need. As the Administrator, I must look at the American healthcare system as well as national insurance systems of reimbursements. In America, our healthcare system was built based on structures of payments, gatekeepers, reimbursements, and payments made by the patients or co-pays. The National Insurance structures are government enforced to prevent over inflation of governmental healthcare debt. Most would call this social healthcare. The national insurance program will deduct payments from the employees check just as if they are the employer insurance premiums. Everyone must have a job in order to get the national insurance full coverage. The opposite would be if the patient did not have a job. The patient will go the governmental clinics, which will treat them for a fee less than $100.00 (local currency) for check up, surgery, and other services.
  • 7. 7 I have a student that I taught in Ghana, Africa. He was a young man without a job and now according to his testimony he is now a Registered Nurse at Tamale General Hospital. The healthcare system in Africa is quite different from America. A patient in Ghana must present $100.00 (Ghanaian Dollars) for treatment to see the doctor that could be miles away. American Healthcare This $100.00 (GD) only covers the doctor’s visits and the stay for a couple of days. This fee does not include surgical interventions if needed. The family will have to hustle money quickly in order to save their love ones. In America, it is a crime to deny a patient emergency treatment due to payment. The patient has to be stable enough before turning them away for treatment. Most county hospitals will care for many homeless, low-income, and uninsured patients. This is the reason why the city taxes are fluctuating. Many governmental grants may be available to relieve cities hospitals from this burden. It is important that we find ways to help those that are in need because it does affect everybody. The licensed providers in America, provides care to all individuals with a care plan, tailored for the indigent poor, vulnerable communities, and the mental ill. It is a state mandatory requirement to have plans to care for the poor and vulnerable communities. The vulnerable community category includes the elderly population, bed-fast patients, children, and low-income patients. When writing policies and certificates of need (CON) to practice as a hospital, clinic, or home health care provider there must be policies regarding financial ability to care for the communities that are most affected by environmental influence of illness. Most of the
  • 8. 8 healthcare facilities go under within a year because of the lack of planning for the patients that cannot afford the services provided. We as healthcare professionals must lobby for change at the governmental level. The change must come from the patient’s testimonies of hardships, lack of harmony with wellness vs. finances, etc. American Healthcare These countless acts of greed on our government part of cutting Medicare funding must stop. If there are significant cuts to the Medicare and Medicaid funding, there will be many agencies closing including free aid agencies. In many countries, social healthcare is viewed as the primary way of living. It is the most reliable way of affordable healthcare. I spoke to a cab driver “Benny” about wages and healthcare in Mexico. Benny informed me that the patient pays for all healthcare expenses and not the Mexican government. The wages in Mexico are paid weekly in the form of pesos. The wages are no more than average 100 pesos that is $7.75 a week minus the taxes taken from the employee’s wages. This is not fair but big corporate companies do it every day. This is why most jobs are outsourced. It will save millions to pay workers less than what they are worth for the same job here in the United States. The decisions that United States makes regarding healthcare can make a lasting impression on the Global aspect of financing healthcare. Other counties are affected by healthcare change but one that I was told about was the Republic of the Philippines. I spoke to two (2) of my colleagues that are Nurses in the Philippines and I was informed about their
  • 9. 9 National Insurance Programs (NIP). 1 The national insurance in the Philippines is expensive and can be costly to the poor. For example, there is a $15.00 (PHP) charge for services at the poor clinic for treatment and some medicines. American Healthcare The nurses on average are earning 13,000 a year as a professional (BSN) nurse. The cost to the patient for treatment and discharge medicine is around15.00 (PHP) that is 0.36 (USD) for treatment. This is ridicules for patients to suffer due to the lack of funds. This figure may seem cheap but limited employment opportunities, this can become a life or death situation. Most patients will not see a doctor or practitioner because of the lack of citizenship or funds (Xiung, 2012). Many patients are suffering with the agony of pain and anguish due to the lack of insurance in America. We are wasting healthcare dollars on many unnecessary treatments that may or may not work. Most of our healthcare dollars are coming into the hands of Administrators that commit fraud. The statues need to become tougher to catch acts of fraud and prevent Medicare waste. America is the home of the brave and the leaders of many positive causes such as foreign aid, ministry missions, and economic growth. Many people from other countries perceive that America is rich because of what is being described in the news media. Most of the news media perceive America to be wasteful and ungrateful. In some instance, we are because of the many unnecessary purchases that are made. 1 The information that was taken to highlight the National Insurance coverage in the countries spoken above are there to protect the identity. The sources are from Ghana (GD), Mexico, and the Philippines. I did not get any signatures to use in the study. PHP is Philippines Pasco, BSN is bachelor science in nursing, and DOP is Dominican Republic Pasco.
  • 10. 10 The status quos of our time can manifest as greed, which in the end promotes disease. This is why most patients from other countries will not see healthcare insurance any other way but to have the government take over the responsibility of caring for its citizen’s healthcare. For example, in Santo Domingo, Dominican patients are responsible for their healthcare expenses with little help from governmental healthcare insurance but the practitioner/physician is paid a sum of $400.00 (DOP) a month that is about $10.18 (USD). American Healthcare In my opinion, low wages in these countries can contribute to the problem associated within the quality of healthcare services rendered. Methods The methods section of the study mainly focused on healthcare comparison between the United States and the other countries at random. I wanted to compare the information used by past studies as a formulation base for improving or discovering new information. The sources of information gathered from public social websites such as facebook, blog space, and twitter. P.C.D.I Healthcare and Consultants runs a blog page that practitioners from all areas of the globe can answer questions regarding healthcare in their countries. The population sample that were tested were 170 (in the entire group) people. The test only came back with 7 practitioners of different medical arts from Naturopathy (2), Nursing (2), Chiropractic (1), Layman (2)2. The questions range from healthcare impact on the poor to 2 The population sample was small including 116 volunteers in the group of facebookers. The Layman were people that hold no degree or title in healthcare. Anthony Wallace is the facilitor of the research group.
  • 11. 11 major impact of disease. The majority of my population samples were from the United States (135), the Philippines (30), Africa (3), India (4), England/Europe (3), and Israel (1). The population majority were not healthcare professionals but were seeking alternative healthcare knowledge (USA). The foreign participates were either alternative therapist, doctors of the healing arts, or nurses. American healthcare The study lasted for 8 weeks during the first day of class starting in August 2012 to the last day of class ending in October of 2012. The questions were simple to read and the volunteers had up to a week to answer the questions that were displayed on the company facebook blog page. The practitioner then put questions on the board with percentages added for easy calculations. The practitioner added the background reasoning on comparing healthcare insurances to national insurance. One participant told me that the major disease that is plaguing the Philippine population is TB (tuberculosis)3. According to the participant, this can become a very expensive disease because there is a high influx of unemployed persons there in the Philippines. The government insurance will cover some of the expense but the rest of the expense can be costly to the patient that is unemployed. After the interview, I checked for more information of the diseases that cause so much money and no cure. I check the Philippines vital statistics website and found that TB is not the leading cause of sickness it is pneumonia. About 780,199 citizens were 3 Tuberculosis is a highly contagious disease that can start from anywhere in the body and land in the lungs causing decay of tissue by dangerous bacteria. This disease can transmitted by air droplets by the patients by coughing or sneezing. TB bacteria can be carried up to 3ft before dropping out of the air.
  • 12. 12 carriers of this dangerous virus/bacteria that causes pneumonia. This can spread through the village in matter of days4 (National Statistical Coordination Baord , 2012). This is also a startling fact that may plague other countries such as Africa with its HIV/AIDS outbreaks maybe due to limited medication and ignorance of disease transmission. This among all needs to be addressed within government prevention programs. American healthcare In my study, I wanted find ways of educating the public regarding the comparison of healthcare programs for the poor and treatment programs as well. According to the past study burden of the poor, it clearly states that the non-communicable diseases are less important than communicable diseases (Gwatkins DR, 1999). The communicable disease pose more of treat to the environment as a pandemic infection, it poses more spending of city charities healthcare dollars, and can have devastating effect on the city commerce. The study participants were somewhat hesitant to answer the questions due to who was watching the dialogue. I tried to make it clear that fact and opinions will not be taken as offensive. The participants from Africa and the Philippines were the first to answer. The questions are listed in the supporting documents of the paper. The main question was “how do you see National Insurance in your country?”All answers to the questions were quite interesting because most similar to all that participate in the National insurance program. Most of the answers lean toward feeling sorry for the poorest citizens. Mainly, the country is in need of money for the poor due to limited employment opportunities to support themselves. 4 The website for the source of vital statistics for the Philippines http://nscb.gov.ph/secstat/d_vital.asp. It dates back to the year 2008.
  • 13. 13 After consideration, the national insurance is not the only opportunity out there for good healthcare. Some according the documentary will swear by it because American premiums are too high. It is always a catch 22 to any good healthcare program. Europe and also Canada, you may not go see a specialist until a certain amount of time. The period may be 2-3 weeks before the patients can receive any advanced specialty care. As Americans, we can go to the specialist the next day if need be. American healthcare The only bonus to the National Insurance Program is that it is completely paid in full for everything in such as hospital stays, medicines, regular doctors visits, etc. Summaries My audience answered majority of the questions (1,2,3,5). The totally percentage was not calculated because it was all open-ended questions. The focus of the questionnaire is to compare the similarities of the National Insurance and the American Healthcare system. My study was conclusive that national insurance works, it may not benefit most of the poor but with the money saved without high insurance premiums we can convert monies to help those citizens that are in most need of medical services. We need to lobby for more free clinics to treat the poor, more programs that give the poor independence by paying co-pays, and getting more direction from front line practitioners that really know what the patients need. There are always going to be many people on the opposite side of the table but we can all come to an agreement on proper preventive programs that reduce medical cost.
  • 14. 14 For example, progressing research in healthcare finance, interviewing and assessing patient’s needs, proper screening criteria for government benefits, proper field testing for data collection and non-bias processing, and lastly ensure program development and implementation of programs are done correctly. These are all ways of starting our healthcare reform in the right direction. American healthcare On all healthcare plans, there has to be limits and boundaries set to protect the vulnerable populations such as the poor, women, children, and uneducated (Martin, 2011) In some countries, NIP is considered a mandatory taxation and by not paying the taxes will land the citizen in jail. The participants that were interviewed, had no problem in paying the national insurances taxes. It is the practitioners that are going broke behind the reimbursement rates. The education maybe free but the life of a physician is 24 hours a day with $400.00 pesos a month5. That is again $10.18 a month (USD). We can do better with aid to other countries but before we can help anyone else, we must help ourselves. So many problems need to be worked out here in America first. Let us band together and let the congress know that funding programs that are not needed take them off and put plans to recover, provide low-cost healthcare coverage, and promote job security. 5 This information came from an interviewee, that lives in Santo, Domingo, Dominican. The source is a reliable source of information. All Conversions of money came from my converter app on the Samsung network.
  • 15. 15 Recommendation In my recommendation, this is quite important when calculating the cost of soft to hard saves within the insurance industry. Most indigent poor persons cannot afford proper healthcare thus making it very hard for the agency to catch its “second wind.” We must come up with new agendas in addressing new healthcare reform. The difference within the industry is defined as hard saving are when insurance companies has taken a bad “hit” with millions spent but was able to get the case manager to stop the bleeding. American Healthcare The soft saves comes from having the patients take a less expensive road to recovery such as discharging the patient home to finish out at a rehab or with the assistance of home healthcare. With this saying “The more you keep the patients out of the hospital the lower the cost and savings.” The American Healthcare System and National Insurance philosophies are the same as making healthcare “affordable” but my study has concluded that it is not afford both ways. As explained before, every cut and gain has a consequence. We must have checks and balances to every plan. We must set plans to recover in cases of emergency spending or deficit. The cuts are causing the facilities to bleed and business to go under. Let’s start by thinking outside the box and seeing healthcare as a growing trend of technological and philosophical thoughts of revolution. Take care and be in good health.
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