Is the globalization of health care good or bad for the American economy?
For your homework assignment for week 1 prepare an essay that answers the following questions:1. A decade ago the idea that medical procedures might move offshore was unthinkable. Today it is a reality. What trends have facilitated this process? Is the globalization of health care good or bad for the American economy?2. Is the globalization of health care good or bad for patients? Who might benefit from the globalization of health care? Who might lose?3. How might a universal health insurance program change the current trends in the health care industry? In your opinion, are programs like that offered by Aetna to have surgery conducted in another country truly viable?
Describe the recent scrutiny of the methods of healthcare pricing. Is this scrutiny justified, or unjustified?
Required Reading Nowicki, M. (2018). Introduction to the Financial Management of Healthcare Organizations (Vol. Seventh edition). Chicago, Illinois: Health Administration Press. Part 2; pages 93-179, and pages 198-211. Retrieved from the Trident Online Library. http://web.a.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.trident.edu:2048/ehost/ebookviewer/ebook/ZTAwMHhuYV9fMTgzOTA1OF9fQU41?sid=41486dec-fb91-4d8b-9624-fc863488e011@sessionmgr4007&vid=0&format=EB&lpid=lp_31&rid=0 View: Taylor, M. (2014). Managerial Accounting: Cost – Volume – Profit and Break-Even. Available at: https://youtu.be/zMb_IniBbDk
Assignment Overview
In recent years, healthcare pricing has come under much scrutiny. Calls for price transparency have been made, loudly and clearly. Discounting prices to some recipients or payers occur, but how and why does this happen? Patients with insurance typically pay an insurance-negotiated discounted rate, while patients without insurance can be asked to pay the full amount that is charged by the provider or facility. Why can’t you simply look on each provider’s website to see the exact cost of your office visit, or your x-ray? With the many methods of cost-setting available to us as healthcare managers, we see how there is a high degree of variability in the amount charged per service from person to person, and state to state. In moving towards either voluntary or state-mandated transparency in healthcare pricing, we consider the following Case assignment questions. Homework Case 2 Assignment After completing the required background readings, please complete the following questions: Describe the recent scrutiny of the methods of healthcare pricing. Is this scrutiny justified, or unjustified? What can healthcare managers do to be best prepared for increasing future calls for transparency (either voluntary, or state-mandated)? How have state transparency laws affected healthcare pricing in your home state, or state of current residency? Can you locate the exact costs of healthcare services you or your family may need in the near future? How is cost-shifting implemented within the healthcare settings? Do you believe this ethical? Assignment Expectations Conduct additional research to gather sufficient information to support your analysis. Provide a response of 3-5 pages, not including title page and references. As we have multiple required items to be addressed herein, please use subheadings to show where you’re responding to each required item and to ensure that none are omitted. Support your paper with peer-reviewed articles and reliable sources. Use at least three references, and a minimum of two of these from peer-reviewed sources. For additional information on how to recognize peer-reviewed journals, see http://www.angelo.edu/services/library/handouts/peerrev.php and for evaluating internet sources:https://www.library.georgetown.edu/tutorials/research-guides/evaluating-internet-content You may use the following source to assist in your formatting your assignment: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/. Paraphrase all source information into your own words carefully, and use in-text citations.
How might you integrate Bader-Saye’s ideas about the risks of hospitality, generosity and peacemaking with Wink’s theology of social transformation
300 words for forum. How do Wink’s ideas about privilege and power compare to Johnson’s, Ehrenreich’s, and Bader-Saye’s ideas? [This question casts a wide net; please feel free to write about the ideas in which you are most interested.] How are they different? How might you integrate Bader-Saye’s ideas about the risks of hospitality, generosity and peacemaking with Wink’s theology of social transformation [as represented in his quotation above]? How might you use the experiences/stories of the people we have read about/viewed/listened to this semester including all of the following: the women in Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed, the characters from your Multicultural Children’s Picture Book the characters from Hotel Rwanda, Come See the Paradise and El Norte the characters in If These Walls Could Talk 2 The Girls Next Door In your posting please use these stories to illustrate Wink’s view of the connection between social transformation and our commitment to the general welfare- regardless of our social location. Post three questions about how Nickel and Dimed and Following Jesus in a Culture of Fear deal with the focus of this forum and respond to at least four other questions posted by the other members of your cohort.
Where are you on the moving walkway?
Empathy The kind of awareness a sociological imagination produces can be unsettling because it forces us to see things we would prefer not to. If forces us to pay attention to the hardships and options other people face. If we understand how others’ circumstances differ from our own, we are more likely to be empathetic, to give them the respect they deserve as human beings. We are less likely to condemn them unfairly for doing things we dislike or disagree with. In fact, having a sociological imagination can help decrease the amount of hatred and conflict in the world. I sometimes visualize the ongoing cycle of racism as a moving walkway at the airport. Active racist behavior is equivalent to walking fast on the conveyor belt. The person engaged in active racist behavior has identified with the ideology of white supremacy and is moving with it. Passive racist behavior is equivalent to standing still on the walkway. No overt effort is made, but the conveyor moves the bystanders along to the same destination as those who are actively walking. Some of the bystanders may feel the motion of the conveyor belt, see the active racists ahead of them, and choose to turn around ,unwilling to go to the same destination of the white supremacists. But unless they are actively walking in the opposite direction at a speed faster than the conveyor belt — unless they are actively anti-racists— they will find themselves carried along with others. Beverly D. Tatum Answer these questions: sociological imagination Where Do You Stand? Where are you on the moving walkway?
What is new equilibrium price of train trips to consumers?
Train and bus trips between two towns are provided by separate companies. The demand for train trips is:D1 = 3,000 – 300T1 + 25T2 + 3YWhere D1 is annual demand for train trips, T1 is price of train trips, T2 is price of bus trips and Y is average annual income.The supply of train trips by the industry can be described by S1 = 200T1, with S1 being train trips per year, so that demand equals supply (ie., D1=S1).Y (average annual income) is $75,000 and the price of bus trips is T2 = $500. 1. What is the equilibrium price of train trips? 2. How many train trips are provided and purchased? 3. Calculate the producer surplus for the train trips providers. Assume the government puts $50/trip tax on producers. Answer the following questions: 4. What is new equilibrium price of train trips to consumers? 5. What is the new equilibrium price of train trips to producers? 6. How many train trips are produced and sold? 7. How much tax revenue is raised? 8.The government decided not to apply the tax, but a bus company who can dominate the market starts to provide bus trips. Its supply curve (called marginal cost curve) for bus trips is: S2 = 500 + 40T1 9. How many bus trips will now be produced? 10. How many bus trips will now be provided by the bus companies operating before the extra bus company entered the market?
Compare institutional and community leadership roles in responding to these targeted health objectives.
Develop Part II of a health campaign plan. Part II focuses on assessment and planning for a health campaign.Write a 1,750- to 2,450-word analysis of the population and resources for your health campaign. Building on the Part I submission, provide the following:• Summarize Part I in a single paragraph as part of your introduction to create the context for Part II.• Describe how the target population is defined at the national level and compare how these data may differ in the defined community, relating to the nationally identified objective specific to the issue you identified in Part I.• Describe the target population’s incidence, prevalence, and mortality differences between the national and state level.• Explain the community-based response to the issue, including community-based planning, needs assessments, and selection of locally identified objectives.• Compare institutional and community leadership roles in responding to these targeted health objectives.• Describe any economic factors and funding intervention strategies that will address the issue.• Describe the role of social marketing in promoting public health related to your chosen issue.
Summarize in your own words the National Institutes of Health (NIH) definition of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM).
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Article for reference: Chong, O. (2006). An integrative approach to addressing clinical issues in complementary and alternative medicine in an Outpatient Oncology Center. Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, 10(1), 83-89. Critique the Chong article and prepare an APA style–referenced four to five-page response to the following questions: Summarize in your own words the National Institutes of Health (NIH) definition of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). Provide reasons for nondisclosure of CAM use among patients. What are the reasons for using CAM among patients? Justify your answer using examples and reasoning. What is the role of the clinical nurse practitioner? Review at least one additional scholarly research article that supports or refutes the claims made in the Chong article. Compare and contrast the results discussed in each article.
Define what diversification means in a national economy.
Life is full of risks, and everyone takes them. Among other things one’s personal tolerance for risk largely determines the level of his or her success. The greatest fortunes in history all started with a risk, and most of them with an enormous risk. We can mitigate risk by diversification, both in our investment portfolios and in our national and international economies. Write a paper about how diversification works within a national economy, and illustrate the risks nations or specific regions within nations have when there is minimal diversification. To achieve maximum points for content and analysis, the following elements need thoroughly addressed: Define what diversification means in a national economy. Give at least one example of what a well-diversified country might look like. Give at least one example of what a poorly diversified country might look like.
Describe the history and evolution of health care economics and the timeline of health care funding.
Resource: Grading Criteria: Economic Terms and Health Care History on the student website
Complete the Economic Terms Exercise in Week One of the student website. Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you include the following:
Describe the history and evolution of health care economics and the timeline of health care funding, using the defined terms. Include two outside resources.
Differentiate between when inferential and descriptive statistics are used in criminal justice.
In 90 to 175 words, differentiate between when inferential and descriptive statistics are used in criminal justice. Provide examples to support your points
