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eri2244072

Major Problems in the U.S. Healthcare System: Can they Be Fixed - 2 views

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    There are many major problems within our healthcare system. For instance, there is a huge shortage of healthcare workers. We need healthcare workers in order for hospitals to run smoothly. Not only is there a shortage of workers, there is an opioid crisis as well. Many things need to be done in order to fix the healthcare system.
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    The healthcare system is a mess right now. A lot of healthcare workers were called heroes in the beginning of covid and now they're being fired because they don't feel comfortable getting the vaccine. The shortage is from them getting fired. I actually lost my best friend to an accidental overdose.
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    Americans spend almost twice as much on health care then the average for the 10 most high earning nations despite having the highest rate of mortality and suicide. There are people who would just as soon try and deal with a broken bone on their own then risk thousands and thousands of dollars worth of medical bills.
azychandler1998

Survey: 1 in 5 Americans can't afford necessary care - MedCity News - 0 views

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    One of the major social issues in our world, and especially in The United States, is accessible and affordable healthcare. Americans are not able to afford healthcare, and those that manage to pay for it state that more things need to be included.
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    I think that is an important and relevant topic in America many of its own citizens can't afford basic care and health needs. It is something that we need to look more diligently on. America can not progress when its citizens are suffering. Great Article!
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    It's sad that people can't afford healthcare it should be more accessible to everyone. If everyone could afford healthcare then we wouldn't have so many deaths.
rowan_staige

Access to Health Services | Healthy People 2020 - 5 views

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    Access to Health Services is a key issue in the Health Care domain as many people face disparities due to limited access. Many issues are covered in brief or general detail with focus on each main idea. These ideas include lack of Health Coverage, poor transportation services, deficient Health Care Resources, and how they impact vulnerable populations.
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    Healthcare barriers are a concern in today's world, with pharma gaining ever more power within the government. Healthcare prices are skyrocketing, creating an economic barrier. I learned from this article that physicians could refuse to help patients using Medicaid just because of the lower rate. The goal of Medicaid is to ensure that low-income people can receive healthcare. Physicians should not refuse healthcare to the Medicaid population based on the rate of cost.
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    This article provides in depth insight on the barriers people face accessing adequate healthcare in America. It talks about how important healthcare is and how it is a human right to have equal access to it. The website provides credible evidence and sources to support all the contributing factors.
jul2201173

Healthcare - 0 views

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    Good health is intrinsic to a persons well being. Those who do not have access to decent healthcare cannot have the same opportunity at life as those who do.
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    Health care plays an important role in society today and especially social justice issues. It is important that everyone is able to have access to healthcare not only for ones life but the society as a whole. However, sometimes the healthcare system limits individuals as to if they are able to have access to it when it should be a born right.
matthewvazquez

Study links social problems with healthcare costs | Healthcare Finance News - 0 views

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    This article covers the connection between healthcare costs and poverty. It also talks about those who visit the hospitals the most are the ones who cannot afford it.
anonymous

Does the U.S. Need Universal Health Care? - 2 views

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    This advocates for the implementation of universal healthcare in the United States. It also talks briefly about why Americans seem to be so resistant to a new healthcare system.
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    I feel the need for universal health care has been push to the headlines due to COVID-19, since so many people are unable to pay for healthcare.
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    I liked how the article pointed out that people are doing go fund me accounts and that is a good example because many people are unable to afford healthcare and people are depending on other individuals to pay for their medical bills and it is a huge issue.
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    I really liked the article and liked how it gives examples of what is happening due to healthcare being so expensive.
dan2195433

Healthcare Inequalities In America - CDC Chart - 1 views

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    This chart published by the CDC gives a comprehensive view of adults & children of racial groups and age groups, and their access to care. This chart also outlines that white people have more access to healthcare than other racial groups. Finally, this chart is for informational purposes only, and does not give any insight as to why there is a gap in access to care.
nolanstrom

Social Justice and Health - 0 views

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    This article talks about Social Justice and health Justice. To create an equal distribution of money, power and resources when it comes to everyone's health.
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    This website explains that social justice means that everyone receives equal rights and opportunities. That said, Everyone deserves equal access to the best available healthcare. In order to do so, health and equity must be talked about.
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    This article discusses the inequality that persist through healthcare and how it continues to grow over the years. Examples and statistics are given to help express concerns on the topic of inequality in the healthcare system.
fra2224486

Social Issues in Healthcare | Maryville Online - 1 views

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    This article talks about how healthcare is accessible to class, religion, gender, race and ethnicity. They explain how healthcare is a social determinant of health.
taylor479

WHO | Health and social justice - 0 views

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    Health care is needed among everyone regardless of what they make. Being denied healthcare because of salary is a social issue
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    Health care is needed among everyone regardless of what they make. Being denied healthcare because of salary is a social issue
kai2147828

Bias healthcare - 0 views

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    The social bias in the healthcare in America is ridiculously bad. It costs thousands of dollars to get checked out by a doctor and thousands more for a life saving surgery. Where some people get cheaper for better?
Chelsea Faulkner

What's wrong with the Obama healthcare plan? - 0 views

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    States that ACA is not enough for the U.S. States that we need to adopt a universal healthcare system.
anonymous

Top 5 Barriers to Mental Healthcare Access - 3 views

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    As this title indicates, this article details various barriers to mental healthcare access in America. Among these barriers are financial challenges, lack of healthcare professionals, and social stigma surrounding mental illness.
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    I really enjoyed this article. It's nice to inform people about the reasons why people struggle with finding access to good mental health care. A lot of the world is misinformed as to why people are unable to access help for their mental issues.
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    I too enjoyed this article. As I'm aspiring to be a psychiatrist, issues such as these are very important to me, especially considering that I have suffered from mental illness as well. There are indeed many stigmas that surround mental illness, and we as a society are just barely beginning to understand the sensitive nature of these illnesses, as well as how to effectively treat them.
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    Thank you for sharing this article! I believe it's important to understand why it's so hard for so many people to get treatment for mental illness. It's not as easy as go to the gym or just don't think about it. It's important to get rid of the stigma and economic barriers that surround mental illness and treatment.
Chelsea Faulkner

Universal Healthcare Pros and Cons - 0 views

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    Pros and cons to U.S. universal healthcare
emi2191825

Poverty and Health - 2 views

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    This article focuses on the interrelation between poverty and health. It gets into further detail about the reasons why people may become extremely poor because of their health situations. It also implements different solutions to help those who find themselves in situations like these.
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    This article gave me information on healthcare from a perspective of the people living at the poverty level. It focuses on how different strategies and projects made directly to change the affect of this healthcare system in its current status.
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    This article does well in representing how complicated poverty is. I liked how the authors showed how health care is a cause of poverty, and poor health care is also a sign of poverty. It goes to show the dual nature of many social issues and why solutions are increasingly challenging. The solutions offered by the authors look like they would be effective, but executing them might be difficult. It would be hard because these solutions are very general, and they would cost money as many of them require the government to force the cost of healthcare down.
candicebanks

What Does Social Justice Require For The Public's Health? Public Health Ethics And Poli... - 1 views

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    Overview of how health affairs tie directly into Social Justice being one of the core values. Displays the importance of Justice in our public health systems and how social injustice in healthcare affects our economy as a whole.
jalisa2018

Social Justice Issues Facing Social Workers Today - 0 views

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    Social justice issues the profession of social workers face. Written in 2007 the article captures issues still faced today such as poverty, healthcare, child welfare are a few subjects touched on.
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    Judith M. Schagrin is the assistant director for Children's Services at the Baltimore County Department of Social Services. Judith expressed her thoughts and concerns on multiply issues regarding child welfare and its system. She believes that our nation's child welfare system should be a national priority and she even made suggestions to fix this ongoing issue
rowan_staige

How Poverty Leads to Social Injustice - 0 views

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    This article talks about how closely linked poverty and social justice are. Those living in poverty are in their situation because that have not had equal access and opportunity. The best way to alleviate poverty is to focus on providing equal opportunity to everyone.
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    I agree with statements made in the article about the inequalities that people who live in poverty suffer. Much of this social issue has to do a lot with race and legal status which often times determines eligibility for many programs that should be helping those in need. There is an overwhelming population over looked and discriminated against, adding more fuel to the fire. The number of people affected by poverty is concerning as there should be no reason that they are not receiving the help they need. Very informative article about the subject.
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    I also agree how there are inequalities for people that are in poverty just because of their race and legal status also how it determines they are eligiliable for healthcare, and etc.
smurphy6600

Health Net lawsuit reveals the financial engine of drug rehab industry - 0 views

  • The only "Obamacare" health insurer in metro Phoenix and Pima County is ensnared in a legal dispute with several addiction treatment centers over the cost of care amid an Arizona opioid epidemic that is taking an average of two lives each day. 
  • Maricopa County Superior Court lawsuit
  • widespread fraud among Arizona and California drug rehab centers in 2015 and 2016, when it alleges"teams of brokers" recruited out-of-state clients to fraudulently obtain insurance policies and to seek treatment in Arizona.
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  •  residential “sober homes”
  • headaches for local government officials as they try to determine how to manage the unregulated industry.
  • Prescott, which once claimed more than 100 sober homes, has adopted regulations to provide more oversight of them.
  • Federal and state prosecutors have aggressively pursued cases in Florida and California in connection with fraudulent activities such as patient brokering.
  • There have been no criminal cases filed in Arizona, however. 
  • Six of the rehab facilities that accuse Health Net of improperly withholding payments are in Prescott: Chapter 5 Counseling, Prescott House, Compass Recovery Center, Clean Adventures of Sober Living, Decision Point Center and Carleton Recovery Centers.
  • Three others, T R U Recovery Solutions, North Ridge Counseling and Desert Cove Recovery, list Scottsdale addresses. 
  • The rehab facilities allege that Health Net improperly withheld payments to virtually every rehab center in Arizona and southern California beginning in January 2016. Health Net halted the payments as part of an investigative audit that demanded each center provide detailed records such as proof of patients' residency and assurances that patients did not receive incentives to sign up for rehab. 
  • Health Net said in court documents that claims filed by rehab centers in Arizona soared because of widespread fraud
  • Health Net's PPO plans paid $2.4 million to all Arizona rehab centers in 2014. Those payments soared to $47.4 million in 2015
  • Those plans paid more for rehab care that year than all other types of care in Arizona, including typically expensive medical care such as cancer, heart disease and child births, according to the insurer’s counterclaim.
  • Here’s how the fraud worked, the insurer said in its counterclaim:Brokers would scout out people in 12-step programs, Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, homeless shelters and jails, then refer these clients to the “highest-bidding clinic.”Clinics that were not part of the insurer’s network paid clients’ insurance premiums and out-of-pocket costs such as deductibles and co-payments.The result was that people secured Health Net coverage “arranged and bought for them by financially-interested providers for one purpose only: to obtain coverage for the limited time needed to rack up millions of dollars in substance abuse treatment.” Some clinics misrepresented the home addresses of patients, many of whom lived out of state. 
  • “a sophisticated fraud involving the fraudulent enrollment of non-Arizona residents,” who signed up for Arizona insurance policies. 
  • misrepresenting their home address
  • Clean Adventures staff member told him to list the rehab facility's address on his insurance application.
  • put him in contact with an insurance agent who suggested using Clean Adventures' address on his insurance application
  • The insurer named 10 other examples of people who lived in California, Indiana, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee and Wisconsin but represented that they lived in Prescott or Scottsdale.
  • The insurer also said the rehab centers engaged in fraudulent billing, charging for services that were not medically necessary or in amounts that exceeded what the plan allowed.
  • A 2008 law called the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Act requires insurance plans to provide equitable coverage for substance abuse and addiction treatment. The Affordable Care Act also requires health insurance plans cover essential health benefits, including behavioral health services, and it forbids insurers from denying coverage to individuals based on existing medical conditions. 
  • The unintended consequence was (some) addiction treatments centers began taking advantage of that and over-billing," said Angie Geren, executive director of Addiction Haven, a grassroots and advocacy organization focusing on addiction issues. 
  • House Bill 2333
  • curb the practice of paying referral fees to brokers who steer patients to rehab centers.
  • bill never made it out of committee.
  • Florida
  • "The scam starts with deceptive advertising at the beginning," Aronberg said. "You are lured down to sunny Florida with a free plane ticket, which is illegal. You are given illegal benefits to keep you there."
  • patients often find themselves booted from treatment when their insurance benefits run out.
  • incentive for people to relapse so they can obtain another round of coverage.
  • Sober Home Task Force targeting the practice of buying and selling patients battling addiction
  • Johnson said rehab centers that provide legitimate services are being harmed as insurance companies scrutinize payments and bad actors poach patients away. 
  • ken.alltucker@arizonarepublic.com
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