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According to the US Department of Labor, healthcare will generate 3.2 million jobs between 2008 and 2018, more than any other industry, largely in response to rapid growth in the eldery population.

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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) or ObamaCare: A Prelude to a Socialized Healthcare Insurance System?

Healthcare has advanced in significant ways across the developed world. Medical care has advanced and investment in equipment and drugs has delivered unprecedented gains. The quality of life and expectancy have been enhanced and treatments are safer and more effective than ever before. The rapid growth of medical knowledge and technology made it harder for […]

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Informed Consent and Patient’s Right to Choose

This posting will identify and analyze controversial patient treatments including an explanation why other treatments are more controversial than others. In the construct of the informed consent, it is important to differentiate between patient’s preferences for specific treatment and patient’s preferences for specific health states. Issues such as patient’s right to choose treatment or refuse […]

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Ethical Issue: The Delicate Balance Among the Principles of Autonomy, Beneficence, and Nonmaleficence.

This posting will contrast the principles of nomaleficence and beneficence including a risk assessment and cost-benefit analyses of a course of action. From the ancient maxim of professional medical ethics, “Primum non nocere: First, do not harm,” came the principle of nonmaleficence. This principle implies an obligation not to do harm, thus a physician not […]

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Egalitarian Access to Health Care as a Prerequisite for Justice

The development of a rationale for egalitarian access to health care as a prerequisite for justice has been the focus of philosophical reflection on health and justice. This posting will analyze and provide an explanation of the theory of egalitarian theory of justice. John Rawls championed the cause of egalitarian theory (1971). There are two […]

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High and Low Level Health Care Quality Maybe Just In the Eye of the Beholder

Universally, the three most important issues in any health care system worldwide are cost, quality, and access (Shi & Singh, 2008). Two of the issues, cost and access can be measured empirically, while the third one, quality is somehow of a subjective issue, so that McGlynn and Wasserman (2006) argued that health care quality may […]

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Sometimes Helping an Employee with Healthcare Coverage Can Be Risky

It is now a common knowledge that employers of less than 50 employees are not mandated under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to provide any for health insurance to its employees. But suppose a particular company with a self-insured plan, as a gesture of kindness, elects to provide health benefit to one employee because they […]

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ObamaCare’s Individual Mandate Getting Close

There are 16 provisions of the ObamaCare that are slated to take effect on January 1, 2014 (Kff.org, 2013). Only 15, however will get implemented as President Obama postponed the implementation of the Employer Requirements until 2015. The employer requirement is just one of the major provisions of the health care law. Other 2014 major […]

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Extending HIPAA’s Security Rule on Electronic Health Records (EHRs)

HIPAA and EHRs The Congress of the United States passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in 1996, which sets the national standard for electronic transfer of health data. It led to the subsequent implementation of the Privacy Rule in 2003 and the Security Rule in 2005. Both rules were enacted to protect […]

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