• Former hospital director Prof. Meir Oren noted that the crisis in the healthcare system began before the reform legislation. (jpost.com)
  • Oren noted that the crisis in the health care system did not start with the reform legislation. (jpost.com)
  • We review the record and conclude that she deserves plenty of credit, both for the passage of the State Children s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) legislation and for pushing outreach efforts to translate the law into reality. (ontheissues.org)
  • In fact, from 1939 forward, practically every Congressional session proposed national healthcare legislation. (americanthinker.com)
  • I'm the former insurance industry insider now speaking out about how big for-profit insurers have hijacked our health care system and turned it into a giant ATM for Wall Street investors, and how the industry is using its massive wealth and influence to determine what is (and is not) included in the health care reform legislation members of Congress are now writing. (prwatch.org)
  • Obama has not indicated whether he would champion major health-care legislation right away or if he would pursue a more incremental approach, as some lawmakers and analysts have counseled. (heraldnet.com)
  • Crucial legislative reforms, currently pending in Parliament, provide an opportunity to align Spanish legislation with international and European human rights standards, including in the field of the freedoms of expression and assembly, and should be adopted without delay. (coe.int)
  • When I say "we," I am referring to our government, the media, the healthcare system, and even the population at large, which should demand its rightful due in the way of services, policy, legislation, and funding. (medscape.com)
  • This summer, a piece of legislation that could be transformative for mental health care in the United States was finally passed by the House of Representatives. (medscape.com)
  • The coronavirus crisis is exposing the gaping holes in the US healthcare system-holes in the health insurance system, in healthcare equipment and care facilities, and in global infectious disease control and public health protection programs. (gp.org)
  • Trump has taken this malfeasance to a new level by playing politics with the coronavirus crisis. (gp.org)
  • 2 " Survey: US consumer sentiment during the coronavirus crisis ," December 2020. (mckinsey.com)
  • The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) originally said President Obama's health care law would cost $938 billion from 2010 to 2019. (pagop.org)
  • And most people don't know that President Obama's health care law includes the creation of "IPAB," a panel of 15 unelected bureaucrats who will determine whether or not a doctor who accepts Medicare gets paid to perform procedures or exams. (pagop.org)
  • To that end, various "progressive" (liberal) groups have gotten together and have launched an $82 million campaign to support President Obama's healthcare program. (blogspot.com)
  • On June 9, the Associated Press reported, "President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed budget rules that would allow Congress to borrow tens of billions of dollars and put the nation deeper in debt to jump-start the administration's emerging health care overhaul. (blogspot.com)
  • According to a June 8 Bloomberg News report, "President Barack Obama wants Congress to consider taxing the wealthy instead of workers to pay for a health-care overhaul. (blogspot.com)
  • One of the first steps should be to overhaul outdated methods of collecting and analyzing data regarding patients' physical and emotional health. (medpagetoday.com)
  • But the bleak environment paradoxically might spur the kind of costly, sweeping overhaul of the nation's health-care system that has eluded policymakers in Washington for decades, many political strategists, industry leaders and economists say. (heraldnet.com)
  • Fifteen years ago, the federation helped fight the Clinton administration's proposed health-care overhaul. (heraldnet.com)
  • Mr. Daschle, who Obama transition officials say will be nominated secretary of Health and Human Services, will suggest that Americans hold holiday-season house parties to brainstorm over how best to overhaul the U.S. health-care system. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • If there were ever any doubt that Barack Obama personifies the Crisis Strategy , it should long since have been removed for anyone with a mind. (americanthinker.com)
  • WASHINGTON - When Barack Obama steps into the Oval Office in January, health-care reform will join a list of priorities crowded with two wars, a ballooning budget deficit and an economy mired in one of the worst slowdowns since the Great Depression. (heraldnet.com)
  • These organizations documented that between February 24, 2022 - the day the Russian Federation began its full-scale invasion - and December 31, 2022, there were more than 700 attacks on Ukraine's healthcare system. (medscape.com)
  • More than 20 million Americans could lose employer-sponsored health care, according to the CBO. (pagop.org)
  • Despite partisan rhetoric to the contrary, my belief that the president's health care law must be repealed has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with standing up for the doctor-patient relationship and the freedom of Americans to make their own healthcare decisions. (pagop.org)
  • Washington's inability to pass meaningful reform has put insurance premiums and prescription drugs out of reach for many Americans. (pagop.org)
  • Everyone agrees that Americans should have access to affordable, quality health care. (pagop.org)
  • Liberals obsess over healthcare options because, of course, they want "fairness" no matter how much it will cost Americans in general and the economy in particular. (blogspot.com)
  • The Senate Finance Committee met this week to discuss ideas for lowering the number of Americans without health insurance. (healthinsurancecolorado.net)
  • Health care reform hasn't been in the media as much as it was a year ago , and the overall economic woes are overshadowing the problems faced by the millions of Americans with no health insurance and no realistic access to health care. (healthinsurancecolorado.net)
  • The problems in our health care system don't impact as many people, but 46 million Americans without health insurance is not a small number. (healthinsurancecolorado.net)
  • With mental healthcare inaccessible to many Americans and a 35% increase in annual suicide rates from 1999 to 2018 according to the CDC, an epidemic was already festering. (medpagetoday.com)
  • Now, with the additional stressors of COVID-19 , Americans are facing compounding mental health challenges. (medpagetoday.com)
  • Liberal advocacy groups see the Treasury Department's $700-billion financial rescue package bolstering the case for a similar investment to help sick Americans obtain medical care. (heraldnet.com)
  • WASHINGTON -- The rise in demand for cancer care, a shrinking provider workforce, growing healthcare costs, and an increasingly complex disease are creating a "crisis in cancer care delivery," the Institute of Medicine (IOM) said Tuesday. (medpagetoday.com)
  • Furthermore, the cost of cancer care is rising at a faster rate than other fields of medicine, nearly doubling from $72 billion in 2004 to $125 billion in 2010, and is expected to increase another 39% -- to $173 billion -- by 2020. (medpagetoday.com)
  • People who don't have legal contract of employment and/or can't register as unemployed may be ineligible for free health care: Albania Andorra Belgium Bulgaria China Hong Kong Macau Colombia Croatia Czech Republic Estonia France Hungary Iran India (funded by public and private insurances, along with social insurance programs and free public hospitals funded by the municipal, state and federal authorities). (wikipedia.org)
  • Because of fears that sanctions will soon be imposed on the healthcare industry, health authorities are considering allowing medical institutions to repair equipment with nonoriginal spare parts and components. (medscape.com)
  • The Commissioner welcomes the authorities' initiative to reform the care system for older persons. (coe.int)
  • In the event of a major health crisis, the responses of a regional clinical laboratory can be central to the ability of civic authorities and healthcare systems to handle such emergencies. (cdc.gov)
  • The much-maligned and historically weak system, in the course of the last seven years, has proven its resilience, and has even expanded previously underpowered capacities. (executive-magazine.com)
  • The resilience of the Lebanese healthcare system has been highlighted in recent research. (executive-magazine.com)
  • The authors of this study, both Lebanese and international experts, took as their definition of resilience in healthcare the "capacity of a health system to absorb internal and external shocks, and maintain functional health institutions while sustaining achievements. (executive-magazine.com)
  • He points out that the last years had functioned as a genuine stress test of the national health system, and thus were all the more indicative of its resilience. (executive-magazine.com)
  • In seeking to assess the Lebanese health system for its overall quality and for its resilience in the face of the refugee crisis, it should be noted that all of the academic evaluations of the system mentioned thus far have relied on collaboration or co-authorship with interested stakeholders, the MoPH's Ammar above all. (executive-magazine.com)
  • They also discuss scarcity vs. abundance mindsets, mental resilience, physical health, and much more! (tunein.com)
  • Instead of treating a specific disease, whole person health focuses on restoring health, promoting resilience, and preventing diseases across a lifespan. (qigonginstitute.org)
  • The success narrative becomes more convincing when one is presented with the evidence and testimonies of the institutions and people who are in the thick of managing healthcare for refugees, such as the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) focused on health. (executive-magazine.com)
  • Results of search for 'su:{Health care economics and organizations. (who.int)
  • Within our current for-profit health system, the federal government needs to take immediate action, including a crash program to provide healthcare providers and the public with protective gear, respirators, and other equipment and care that facilities need. (gp.org)
  • Earlier, we touched on how massive information could provide healthcare corporations with predictive analysis about admission rates and assist them correctly employees their facilities. (michaelsteeleformaryland.com)
  • Some countries may provide healthcare to non-citizen residents, while some may require them to buy private insurance: Australia Bahrain Bhutan Botswana Brazil Brunei Canada Cuba Denmark (incl. (wikipedia.org)
  • OBAMA: If we don t know the level of subsidies that [Hillary s plan is] going to provide, then you can have a situation, which we are seeing right now in the state of Massachusetts, where people are being fined for not having purchased health care but choose to accept the fine because they still can t afford it, even with the subsidies. (ontheissues.org)
  • A comparison of the plans like the ones we re proposing found that actually I would cover nearly everybody at a much lower cost than Sen. Obama s plan because we would not only provide these health care tax credits, but I would limit the amount of money that anyone ever has to pay for a premium to a low percentage of your income. (ontheissues.org)
  • It s a mandate on parents to provide health insurance for their children. (ontheissues.org)
  • Countries that have government health care are dramatically overhauling their nationalized programs because they are too costly and provide inferior patient care. (pagop.org)
  • Most clinicians caring for cancer patients are trying to provide optimal care, but they're finding it increasingly difficult because of a range of barriers," IOM committee chair Patricia Ganz, MD , of the University of California Los Angeles, said in a release. (medpagetoday.com)
  • The current delivery system lacks good care coordination to provide cancer care for older adults who need special attention for multiple comorbidities, social support, and possible functional and cognitive impairment, the IOM committee found. (medpagetoday.com)
  • The idea was to overwhelm government with demands for services to the point where the system would collapse and provide an opening for the socialists to take over. (americanthinker.com)
  • The stated goal of these programs was to provide comprehensive healthcare for seniors and the poor. (americanthinker.com)
  • At the time of rising unemployment, the government would raise the cost of hiring workers by requiring employers to provide health insurance to their workers or pay a fee (tax) to subsidize government coverage. (blogspot.com)
  • While visiting my folks in northeast Tennessee where I grew up, I read in the local paper about a health "expedition" being held that weekend a few miles up U.S. 23 in Wise, Va. Doctors, nurses and other medical professionals were volunteering their time to provide free medical care to people who lived in the area. (prwatch.org)
  • What intrigued me most was that Remote Area Medical , a non-profit group whose original mission was to provide free care to people in remote villages in South America, was organizing the expedition. (prwatch.org)
  • Integrative cardiology is a new holistic approach to cardiac health and wellness which incorporates aspects of both conventional and integrative medicine to provide care that is congruent with the most up-to-date body of knowledge and guidelines on prevention. (qigonginstitute.org)
  • The findings of the paper provide an important entry point to the discussion on the relevance and scope of EU public mental health action. (lu.se)
  • Improved methods to estimate ORHPs among a health care system's patients would more fully estimate organizational and economic burden to more efficiently allocate resources and ensure capacity to provide clinical services. (cdc.gov)
  • To analyze the level of satisfaction of medical professionals regar ding their work environment in a Social Health Organization of Brazilian Unified Health System. (bvsalud.org)
  • The satisfaction in the work environment of the medical professional in the Social Health Organization is associated with internal factors, as well as the need for their performance recognition by the management policy. (bvsalud.org)
  • Reviewing the responses of the healthcare system in the years 2013 and 2014, the study concluded "that the Lebanese health system was resilient, as its institutions sustained their performance during the crisis and even improved. (executive-magazine.com)
  • Some of the policy responses were positive, suggesting that some countries have used the crisis to increase efficiency. (bvsalud.org)
  • Today, Algeria has an established network of hospitals (including university hospitals), clinics, medical centres and small health units or dispensaries. (wikipedia.org)
  • Hospitals and health insurance carriers are surviving. (healthinsurancecolorado.net)
  • But many women prefer to labor at home rather than take free care at hospitals that comes packaged with birthing horror stories. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • That's why the Connecticut Hospital Association testified that they are worried about reimbursement to hospitals falling and the Access Health CT insurance exchange being further destabilized. (ctnewsjunkie.com)
  • Possible solutions include giving more authority to the regional directorates, applying the cooperative health insurance scheme and encouraging the privatization of public hospitals. (who.int)
  • In terms of hospital autonomy, the MOH has tried a number of strategies for improving the management of public hospitals during past decades, including direct operation by the MOH, cooperation with other governments such the Netherlands, Germany and Thailand, partial operation by health care companies, comprehensive operation by health care companies and the autonomous hospital system [33]. (who.int)
  • Considering the advantages and disadvantages of these approaches, the MOH has standardized an autonomous hospital system for 31 public hospitals in various regions [34]. (who.int)
  • The autonomous hospital system for public hospitals is expected to raise the efficiency of their performance in both medical and managerial functions, achieve financial and administrative flexibility through adopting a direct budget strategy, apply quality insurance programmes and simplify the contractual process with qualified health professionals [33]. (who.int)
  • It gives public hospitals more experience in the management of their budgets, health care quality and workforce. (who.int)
  • The North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System Laboratories serve 15 hospitals and affiliated regional physician practices in the New York City metropolitan area, with virus testing performed at a central reference laboratory. (cdc.gov)
  • Meanwhile, the ranks of several healthcare professions key to cancer care are expected to fall short of demand in coming years -- including physicians, as the Association of American Medical Colleges notes . (medpagetoday.com)
  • The ability to formulate and apply practical strategies to retain and attract more Saudis into the medical and health professions, particularly nursing, is a clear priority for effective reform of the Saudi health care system. (who.int)
  • This is playing out as a continuous shifting of the financial burden of health care costs away from insurers and employers and onto the backs of individuals. (prwatch.org)
  • Democratic Senator Ken Salazar from Colorado mentioned that regardless of what ideas congress comes up with to reform our broken health care system, the "ominous cloud" of the government bail out for the financial industry "may end up creating huge challenges for us as we try to deal with health care reform. (healthinsurancecolorado.net)
  • While a government bail out for the financial industry might be necessary in order to keep our economy from falling apart, a government bail out for the health care industry isn't likely to happen anytime soon. (healthinsurancecolorado.net)
  • Regardless of the final dollar amount that gets spent to prop up our financial system, it's going to be a major blow to the government bank account, and other projects will have to move to the back burner for a while. (healthinsurancecolorado.net)
  • YWCA USA recently released a national survey (PDF) of American women and their priorities for the new administration, including opinions on the financial crisis, healthcare reform and racial justice. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • To meet increasing pressure on the MOH, more autonomy has been given to the regional directorates in terms of planning, recruitment of professional staff, formulating agreements with health services providers (operating companies) and some limited financial discretion. (who.int)
  • Fundamentals of health care financial management : a practical guide to financial issues and activities / Steven Berger. (who.int)
  • Some health systems were better prepared than others due to fiscal measures they had taken before the crisis, such as accumulating financial reserves. (bvsalud.org)
  • European Region countries employed a mix of policy tools in response to the financial crisis. (bvsalud.org)
  • Policies to secure financial sustainability in the face of the financial crisis, and to improve the health sector's fiscal preparedness for financial crises, should be consistent with the fundamental goals of the health system. (bvsalud.org)
  • and counter-cyclical measures, including subsidies, to protect access and financial protection, especially among poorer people and regular users of health care. (bvsalud.org)
  • The report authors also called on the National Cancer Institute, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, and other research funders to evaluate the role of standard and novel interventions and technologies used in cancer care. (medpagetoday.com)
  • The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health's strategic plan defines whole person research as including three components: (1) Exploring the fundamental science of interconnected systems, (2) Investigating multicomponent interventions or therapeutic systems, and (3) Examining the impact of these interventions on multisystem or multiorgan outcomes. (qigonginstitute.org)
  • Well-defined, opioid-related health problems (ORHPs) would improve prevalence estimates and evaluation of clinical interventions, crisis response, and prevention activities. (cdc.gov)
  • In a wide-ranging discussion, Brient told us why he disputes the notion that healthcare IT will save the healthcare system and why it's nevertheless a crucial element of true healthcare reform. (massdevice.com)
  • The barriers to healthcare created by for-profit, insurance-based health in the US means that many people will not go to a doctor when they have symptoms that could be the coronavirus or could be some other illness. (gp.org)
  • Another 28 million have no health insurance. (gp.org)
  • We also discovered the best general health insurance companies by looking at customer service knowledge and plan offerings, in addition to value worth. (michaelsteeleformaryland.com)
  • Clinton s foes say she doesn t deserve credit for expanding federal health insurance, a claim Clinton has made literally thousands of times. (ontheissues.org)
  • She got health insurance for six million kids, according to one ad. (ontheissues.org)
  • According to a national poll conducted by Bloomberg Businessweek, 30 percent of employers surveyed said they "definitely" plan to drop health care insurance coverage for employees in 2014. (pagop.org)
  • The proliferation of medical malpractice claims has led to an insurance crisis for doctors and medical professionals. (pagop.org)
  • That can be done, for instance, by allowing health insurance to be purchased across state lines. (pagop.org)
  • For more than 50 years before the 1965 enactment of Medicare, the American people repeatedly rejected the idea of government-mandated health insurance. (americanthinker.com)
  • So I was in a unique position to see not only how Wall Street analysts and investors influence decisions insurance company executives make but also how the industry has carried out behind-the-scenes PR and lobbying campaigns to kill or weaken any health care reform efforts that threatened insurers' profitability. (prwatch.org)
  • Cutting edge health insurance analysis. (healthinsurancecolorado.net)
  • People who can't afford health insurance, or can't qualify for medically underwritten policies. (healthinsurancecolorado.net)
  • Louise Norris has been writing about health insurance and healthcare reform since 2006. (healthinsurancecolorado.net)
  • In addition to the Colorado Health Insurance Insider, she also writes for healthinsurance.org , medicareresources.org , Verywell , Spark by ADP , and Boost by ADP , and Gusto . (healthinsurancecolorado.net)
  • Opponents of Maine's new health care reform law (PL90) erroneously describe the law as "a gift to the insurance companies. (mainepolicy.org)
  • Therefore, the real winners are the Maine small businesses and consumers who enjoy more choices and lower priced health insurance options. (mainepolicy.org)
  • This study looks beyond the regulations to highlight the practical impact PL90 is having for end users, the businesses and consumers who purchase private health insurance in Maine. (mainepolicy.org)
  • PL90 contained numerous provisions aimed at improving Maine's individual and small group health insurance markets. (mainepolicy.org)
  • The Maine Guarantee Access Reinsurance Association (MGARA) was created to subsidize high cost claimants in the individual health insurance market. (mainepolicy.org)
  • Jane Doe, a 56 year old single woman, worked for a small Maine employer who offered a group health insurance plan covering Jane and four additional employees. (mainepolicy.org)
  • Jane's biggest challenge in affording individual health insurance was out-of-pocket costs. (mainepolicy.org)
  • MGARA has breathed new life into the individual health insurance market. (mainepolicy.org)
  • A company sells you insurance to protect your right to buy health insurance. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • It would also reduce one of the biggest barriers to running a small business or nonprofit in the state: providing health insurance for employees. (ctnewsjunkie.com)
  • The health care system in this country is extraordinarily complicated, so much so that we need administrative workers to get specialized training just to be able to understand the labyrinth of insurance claims and Medicare reimbursement they deal with every day. (ctnewsjunkie.com)
  • The movement from a buy-in program to a single-payer system is something our state can not fiscally sustain from both an economic and insurance market standpoint. (ctnewsjunkie.com)
  • We can't create a government-backed large insurance pool that would make coverage better and more affordable because it's a slippery slope down to a single-payer system, which will destroy a major pillar of the state's economy. (ctnewsjunkie.com)
  • In 2019, the Minister of Health, Veronika Skvortsova, commenting on the country's medical infrastructure, stated, "No one has attempted any systemic changes since the late 1950s. (medscape.com)
  • Even though scientists and health professionals have been sounding the alarm for decades about the threat of deadly pandemics from new viruses and antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the federal government has been underinvesting in global infectious disease and public health programs under the administrations of both major parties, leaving our healthcare system unprepared for new diseases like this coronavirus. (gp.org)
  • Over the next few decades, great progress was made in building up the health sector, with the training of doctors and the creation of many health facilities. (wikipedia.org)
  • You've been working in healthcare information technology for the better part of two decades. (massdevice.com)
  • In recent decades, the need to tackle mental health issues and promote mental well-being has been increasingly put in the socio-political spotlight. (lu.se)
  • States and federal community health centers should be funded so that people with symptoms of the virus or who have been exposed to the virus can be tested without charge. (gp.org)
  • Large-scale tech applications supported by structural and regulatory reforms will be necessary, but there's reason for optimism. (medpagetoday.com)
  • He is endangering lives with his happy talk for the stock market, his accusations that Democrats are ginning up the crisis for political reasons, and his muzzling of health and science professionals in the federal government. (gp.org)
  • In this way and others, healthcare providers, insurers, patients, and other stakeholders should be preparing for the challenges to come. (medpagetoday.com)
  • Increase funding for CDC, NHS, HHS, NSC, and other agencies that work on global infectious disease and public health programs. (gp.org)
  • NCCIH's new strategic plan for Fiscal Years (FY) 2021-2025 expands the definition of integrative health to include whole person health, that is, empowering individuals, families, communities, and populations to improve their health in multiple interconnected domains: biological, behavioral, social, and environmental. (qigonginstitute.org)
  • Its meaning varies depending on cultures, local beliefs, and practices.2 As a result, policymakers need to plan and implement relevant policies and measures based on the mental health representations of various populations, within different countries. (lu.se)
  • The numbers of cases are small now but all signs signal a coming rapid increase and a public health emergency that the US is not equipped to handle. (gp.org)
  • Socialize the pharmaceutical and medical supply industries as public utilities supplying the healthcare system what it needs at cost for public benefit. (gp.org)
  • The US must invest in getting tests to doctors so the coronavirus can be identified and tracked and effective public health and preventive measures taken. (gp.org)
  • Access to health care is enhanced by the requirement that doctors and dentists work in public health for at least five years. (wikipedia.org)
  • He confirmed to Executive in July that since the publication of this research at the end of 2016, things have kept moving in the same direction: "From the publication of this paper until now, all [health] institutions, private and public, are still functioning, and our i ndicators in Lebanon are still improving. (executive-magazine.com)
  • The umbrella for this massive public brainwashing is called Health Care for America Now. (blogspot.com)
  • There's no time like a global public health crisis to talk about how messed up our health care system is, and how desperately we need reform. (ctnewsjunkie.com)
  • Instituting a public health program will undermine one of Connecticut's largest economic drivers. (ctnewsjunkie.com)
  • The public health sector is overwhelmingly financed, operated, controlled, supervised and managed by the MOH [32]. (who.int)
  • More must be done to strengthen universal access to quality public healthcare for all throughout Spain. (coe.int)
  • The ability of System laboratories to rapidly increase to high-volume comprehensive diagnostics, including influenza A subtyping, provided key epidemiologic information for local and state public health departments. (cdc.gov)
  • Little was done to increase efficiency through policies to improve public health. (bvsalud.org)
  • In its stage 4, priority has been given to medical specialists including medicine, nursing, pharmacy and other health majors [31]. (who.int)
  • The results show that in the selected documents, mental health is discursively represented as a key priority. (lu.se)
  • Kennedy is now backing Obama, but said last year, The children s health program wouldn t be in existence today if we didn t have Hillary pushing for it from the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. (ontheissues.org)
  • RH Reality Check is sponsoring a live chat Wednesday, Dec. 17, at 1 p.m. on reproductive health issues in the Obama administration. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • Former Sen. Tom Daschle, who is slated to oversee health-care policy in the Obama administration, is kicking off the effort to pass a comprehensive health-care plan," reports the Wall Street Journal . (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • Enact improved Medicare for All so every person can afford the medical care they need. (gp.org)
  • Diverting half a billion dollars from Medicare to pay for this national healthcare program disproportionately hurts senior citizens who have earned those benefits. (pagop.org)
  • This takes healthcare decisions away from doctors and their patients and puts them in the hands of government bureaucrats who are more concerned with the bottom line than the health of Medicare patients. (pagop.org)
  • As this healthcare horror awaits its run through Congress, think of it as a massive Medicare, the government program for seniors that cost 3.2 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2008 and which will become insolvent this year! (blogspot.com)
  • Economic factors such as unemployment, underemployment, wage stagnation, increasing healthcare costs, childcare costs, tuition, and mounting racial inequities in wages and employment combined with political tension and a global pandemic result in acute psychological burdens that have significant downstream impacts on all aspects of health. (medpagetoday.com)
  • I understand that without government assistance, the foundation of our entire economic system is in jeopardy. (healthinsurancecolorado.net)
  • Health-care reform is very much linked to the broader economic issues that the country is facing," said Todd Stottlemyer, president of the National Federation of Independent Business . (heraldnet.com)
  • Economic shocks present policy-makers with three main challenges:o Health systems require predictable sources of revenue. (bvsalud.org)
  • In the health care crisis, it's individual families that are hurting. (healthinsurancecolorado.net)
  • The high mortality in care homes during the COVID-19 crisis in some Autonomous Communities remains to be effectively investigated and addressed with the close involvement of the families of the victims. (coe.int)
  • The Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act, HR 2646, was initiated by Congressman Tim Murphy and Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson in the aftermath of the massacre of children by Adam Lanza in Sandy Hook, Connecticut. (medscape.com)
  • In recent months, many healthcare systems around the world have been directly and indirectly affected by a perfect storm that encompasses the pandemic, war, and the energy crisis. (medscape.com)
  • However, in light of the recent Covid-19 pandemic which resulted in a number of lockdowns, heightened anxiety and the loss of a great number of loved ones1, the necessity to address mental health issues and promote mental well-being has been increasingly put under the socio-political spotlight. (lu.se)
  • But another issue supporting the digital transformation in healthcare is predicting what sicknesses and ailments will turn into major issues in the near future. (michaelsteeleformaryland.com)
  • I'm a technologist by vocation and interest, as an electrical engineer, but I'm very passionate both about healthcare, because it's something that makes a pretty major impact on all of our lives, and also because of the fact that my father is a general surgeon. (massdevice.com)
  • But in the health care sector, the major companies are sound. (healthinsurancecolorado.net)
  • Psychological and social factors are also key aspects of the whole person, and they have major impacts on health promotion and disease prevention at all stages of life. (qigonginstitute.org)
  • The Boston Globe ran a story with the headline, Clinton role in health programs disputed. (ontheissues.org)
  • On August 29, 2016, in the midst of the presidential campaign, Secretary Clinton released an agenda for mental health care. (medscape.com)
  • We are making a terrible mistake by giving the government control over one-sixth of our economy and placing life-affecting health decisions in the hands of bureaucrats instead of physicians. (pagop.org)
  • Destruction and Devastation: One Year of Russia's Assault on Ukraine's Health Care System" is the title of a report published in February by eyeWitness to Atrocities, Insecurity Insight, Media Initiative for Human Rights, Physicians for Human Rights, and Ukrainian Healthcare Center. (medscape.com)
  • You are," Mr. Daschle will say at the 2008 Colorado Health Care Summit, an event organized by Sen. Ken Salazar (D., Colo. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • This should be based on an integrated provision of social and health care, which should ensure that older persons' dignity, autonomy and independence are respected in full. (coe.int)
  • The IOM's recommendations were based on six components: engaging patients, fielding a coordinated workforce, enhancing evidence-based care, increasing affordable care, translating evidence into practice, and bettering information technology. (medpagetoday.com)
  • Efforts to establish such colleges are in accordance with training programmes that aim to substitute the largely expatriate workforce with qualified Saudi Arabian nationals in all sectors, including health [18,29]. (who.int)
  • The proportion of Saudi Arabian health professionals in the MOH workforce is expected to decrease in the future as the expansion in health care facilities around the country has the effect of spreading a scare resource even more thinly [17,30]. (who.int)
  • We sought to estimate prevalence of opioid use disorder (OUD), opioid misuse, and opioid poisoning among inpatients at a large, safety net, health care institution. (cdc.gov)
  • In 2001, the most recent year for which figures are available, the Eritrean government spent 5.7 percent of gross domestic product on national health accounts. (wikipedia.org)
  • Already, there was a $682 increase in per-person health care costs from 2011 to 2012, according to the TowersWatson/National Business Group on Health Employer Survey on Purchasing Value in Health Care. (pagop.org)
  • Health Care for America is directed by Richard Kirsch and has been joined by AFL-CIO, MoveOn.org, and Democracy for America, a group founded by former Democratic National Committee Chairman, Howard "the scream" Dean. (blogspot.com)
  • Finally, the government would subsidize and manage the development of a national system of electronic medical records. (blogspot.com)
  • The concept of whole person health, which serves as a framework for our activities at the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), is not limited to physical health alone. (qigonginstitute.org)
  • Over the last few years, the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) has worked to advance research on whole person health, to help drive a paradigm shift and bring all aspects of our health into a clearer picture. (qigonginstitute.org)
  • As part of a special Osher Center 20th anniversary mini-series, we interview Dr. Helene Langevin, MD, director of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) at the National Institutes of Health, and former director of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital (2012-2018). (qigonginstitute.org)
  • When was the last time a presidential candidate-not a president but a presidential candidate- ever released a thoughtful, potentially comprehensive position statement on mental health care? (medscape.com)
  • Additionally, the European Commission emphasises the multisectoral involvement required for a comprehensive European mental health strategy. (lu.se)
  • Examples of health care systems of the world, sorted by continent, are as follows. (wikipedia.org)
  • Examples of the Linkages between Health and Human Rights. (lu.se)
  • Changes are needed across the board, from how we communicate with patients, to how we translate research into practice, to how we coordinate care and measure its quality. (medpagetoday.com)
  • It also called on professional societies to work with the Department of Health and Human Services to implement a strategy for reporting quality measures for cancer care. (medpagetoday.com)
  • Still unresolved are important details about the cost of a new system, provisions for increasing quality and a mechanism for compelling businesses and people to participate. (heraldnet.com)
  • This strategy could improve the skills of current employees, raise the quality of health care and, it is hoped, decrease the rate of turnover among health professionals. (who.int)
  • No one actor can solve the coming healthcare crisis in the U.S., but working together all parts of the healthcare system can prepare to mitigate the worst of it. (medpagetoday.com)
  • The two-year war with Ethiopia, coming on the heels of a 30-year struggle for independence, negatively affected the health sector and the general welfare. (wikipedia.org)
  • And businesses see new urgency in addressing the nation's health-care crisis as they struggle to pay costs for medical benefits while sales plummet and profit margins shrivel. (heraldnet.com)
  • A new bill facilitating access to abortion care, among others, for girls as of 16 years old is welcome. (coe.int)
  • This begins with finding efficiencies that keep costs down while enhancing care and outcomes for patients. (medpagetoday.com)
  • I have to wonder if those people were as powerful as the Wall Street executives who drove their companies into the ground through unscrupulous lending practices, would the government be hashing out a health care bailout too? (healthinsurancecolorado.net)
  • Many scholars and experts acknowledge that it is now a suitable time to discuss and develop appropriate mental health policies and practices across Europe, including specific political measures within the framework of European integration. (lu.se)
  • BACKGROUND: Measuring clinically relevant opioid-related problems in health care systems is challenging due to the lack of standard definitions and coding practices. (cdc.gov)
  • Fund a crash program for coronavirus testing, personal protective equipment for healthcare providers, and care facilities for those infected. (gp.org)
  • Throughout the 1990s, the government, as part of its reconstruction program, devoted ever-increasing amounts of funding to the social and health sectors, which brought corresponding improvements in school enrollments, adult literacy, and infant mortality rates. (wikipedia.org)
  • These expenditures stagnated or declined during the 1998-2000 war with Eritrea, but in the years since, outlays for health have grown steadily. (wikipedia.org)
  • It found that "Lebanon's health sector has shown remarkable progress over the past twenty years," and that Lebanese achievements in the mobilization of health resources "went well beyond what could have been expected given the country's recent history and geopolitical environment. (executive-magazine.com)
  • Two years earlier, an academic study examined the performance of the Lebanese healthcare system during two peak crisis years after Syrian refugee inflows in mid-2012 intensified to previously unimaginable levels. (executive-magazine.com)
  • Paul Brient, the president and CEO of PatientKeeper Inc., has spent 20 years in the healthcare IT trenches, first with the physician practice management software start-up he founded and ran, BCS Inc. After stints at McKesson Corp. (NYSE:MCK), HPR Inc. and The Boston Consulting Group, he joined PatientKeeper in 2002. (massdevice.com)
  • And we worked backwards into all the complex, myriad systems and places that doctors go and over the past 12 years have built a technological solution that literally is the only piece of technology a physician needs to fully automate their day. (massdevice.com)
  • The Russian healthcare system has been in a state of crisis for years. (medscape.com)
  • Right now, during the early implementation phases of the health care law, we're starting to see exactly how it will hurt the American people. (pagop.org)
  • However, for people covered by employment-based health plans, CBO expected that net prices would probably not increase because those plans would be able to negotiate larger rebates that roughly offset the higher prices paid by pharmacies. (drugchannels.net)
  • I also realized that one of the reasons those people in Wise County had to wait in long lines to be treated in animal stalls was because our Wall Street-driven health care system has created one of the most inequitable health care systems on the planet. (prwatch.org)
  • One of the things that we always remind people is that we are not a system of record, in a medical/legal context. (massdevice.com)
  • Healthcare jobs are special and involve human care, executed mostly in the form of collective work. (bvsalud.org)
  • In this system (also known as single-payer healthcare) government-funded healthcare is available to all citizens regardless of their income or employment status. (wikipedia.org)
  • The government provides universal health care. (wikipedia.org)
  • Researchers at the Overseas Development Institute have identified the high prioritisation of health and education both within the government and amongst Eritreans at home and abroad. (wikipedia.org)
  • I still cannot comprehend the wisdom of government-run health care. (pagop.org)
  • These governments and the patients who languish under government-run health care programs know what we will learn far too late - the system is unsustainable. (pagop.org)
  • Government-run health care is not the answer. (pagop.org)
  • The promise of the Declaration of Independence that everyone has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be rendered meaningless by Obamacare if your life depends on government policies regarding healthcare. (blogspot.com)
  • Many efforts have been taken by the government to teach and train Saudis for health professional jobs. (who.int)
  • It was meant to bring about sweeping changes in the way that mental health services are coordinated and financed by the federal government. (medscape.com)
  • In particular, the objectives and goals of the European Union concerning the mental health of European citizens are examined through a discourse analysis. (lu.se)
  • As an industry spokesman, I was expected to put a positive spin on this trend that the industry created and euphemistically refers to as "consumerism" and to promote so-called "consumer-driven" health plans. (prwatch.org)
  • I'm trying to do my part to improve that, improve the day in the life of a doctor, because healthcare at the end of the day really revolves around the patient and the doctor working together to try and take care of them. (massdevice.com)
  • METHODS: Our study included events documented in the electronic health records (EHRs) among hospitalized patients at Denver Health Medical Center during January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2018. (cdc.gov)
  • Once that happens, we can shift our focus to the patients who have been deprioritized in the midst of this global health emergency. (medpagetoday.com)
  • In this weblog, Rachel, who lives with borderline personality disorder, tells us concerning the disconnect between society's dialog about mental health, and her personal lived expertise of mental illness. (michaelsteeleformaryland.com)
  • Dr. Langevin will share her thoughts on the topic of "Whole Person Health," which considers the whole person and the relationships among numerous factors, including biologic, environmental, behavioral, mental, and social factors, in determining health. (qigonginstitute.org)
  • Understanding how chronic disease and mental health intersect and run parallel is important in understanding how the state of illness in the U.S. may be mitigated. (medpagetoday.com)
  • A key aspect of effective medical and mental health treatment is patient adherence. (medpagetoday.com)
  • Understanding and minimizing non-adherence will be essential to providing efficient whole-person healthcare in the wake of 2020's mental and material traumas. (medpagetoday.com)
  • I am specifically talking about mental health care and mental illness. (medscape.com)
  • Psychiatry and mental health care are what I call the Rodney Dangerfield of medicine-they do not get the respect they deserve. (medscape.com)
  • The Senate version, the Mental Health Reform Act, S 2680 (formerly S 1945), is a far cry from the House bill, and if passed, it would need to be reconciled with the House bill. (medscape.com)
  • As a first step towards creating a European strategy on mental health, the European Commission published the Green Paper, Improving the mental health of the population: Towards a strategy on mental health for the European Union in 2005. (lu.se)
  • This master's thesis aims to thematically track the development of the EU discourse on the topic of mental health from 2005 until the present time. (lu.se)
  • It is also envisioned as a positive mental health and as a human right. (lu.se)
  • The meaning and importance of mental health has long been overlooked and misunderstood in Europe and around the world. (lu.se)
  • In contemporary Europe, it is socially considered to be a taboo subject, which is fuelled by widespread stigmas, prejudices, and discriminations against those with mental health issues. (lu.se)
  • Mental health is a complex and challenging concept. (lu.se)
  • The Commissioner notes that regional differences are particularly notable in the provision of primary healthcare and specialised care, due among others to the predominance of private clinics in some regions. (coe.int)
  • Jean Friedman-Rudovsky reports that Bolivia has stemmed maternal and infant death rates by providing free medical care during pregnancy and childbirth. (ourbodiesourselves.org)