Category: Health Care Policy

While scientific evidence, in theory, plays a crucial role in predicting issues that influence the health care policy agenda, its role, in reality, does not always reflect this. Sutherland, et al. (2012) asserted that science and public policy makers have always gone hand in hand, the significance of one to the other has always been…

Many people know Health care in Scotland is free and people believe that everything under the NHS is provided with this free health care. This is not always the case. As I was sitting in the waiting room of an orthodontist a young boy came out from his checkup. At the desk, he was told…

The world health organisation (2014) states that mental health is a condition of mind which includes psychological, social and emotional well-being. Mental health can also be a great factor in how an individual feels, thinks and act thereby determining how a person handles stress, make choices and relates to other people around. The US department…

The health and well-being of all people should be a number one priority, especially to those veterans, military and their families. Unfortunately, it is not a priority. There has been a lot of research done throughout the years that portrays the negative consequences our veterans and military undergo through the transition of military life to…

As we are in the center of a presidential campaign where several politicians are debating the need for a huge health reform, it is important to talk about the current health care policy focusing so heavily on cost and relatively little on quality. Health insurance remains a big topic in American policy, with critical discussions…

The provision of health care in the United States (U.S.) does not function as a logical and interconnected system network designed to work together in a coherent manner. Instead, it is devoid of any unity and remains poorly structured in terms of funding, insurance delivery, distribution and payment processes. In a system that is fundamentally…

Most countries in the world can get and provide good and ample medical coverage to each of their citizens throughout and give good healthcare facilities by the provision of universal health care coverage. Though this may be a factor that helps in the inclusion of all ages and all people in these countries, the United…

When investigating the impacts of Medicaid, the emotional parts in social insurance spending and the portion of GDP committed to human services have raised worries about the negative effect of medicinal services cost swelling on the U.S. economy. The impacts are probably going to happen over all segments of the economy  governments, organizations and…

The new provision of work requirements and reporting was proposed by the Trump Administrations Centers of Medicare and Medicaid in 2018 (Latham, 2018). This provision requires people to either involve in 80 hours of job or community engagement per month to be eligible for Medicaid unless they get an exemption. Exemption of these requirements applies…

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot (2010) tells a story of a poor African American woman whose cancer cells were extracted without her awareness or consent and used for medical research at a lab of the Johns Hopkins University hospital. These cancer cells, later known as HeLa cells would become a major…