Examples of Health care in the following topics:
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- Health care economics is a segment of economic study pertaining to the value, effectiveness, and efficiency in health care services.
- Health care economics is a segment of economic study pertaining to the value, effectiveness, and efficiency in medical care and health care services and issues.
- Health care is a significant concern for patients, insurance companies, governments, businesses, health care providers, researchers, and non-profits.
- Demand for Health Care (Box C): The overall health care demand, which is a complex array of inputs that can be summarized as health care seeking behaviors, and what factors influence them (i.e. externalities, price, time, perspectives, etc.).
- Supply of Health Care Costs (Box D):The supply of health care in most systems is quite complex, inclusive of direct inputs such as drugs, medical suppliers, and diagnostics to insurance companies (third parties) to health care professionals (doctors, nurses, etc.) to research.
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- Health care can impact people beyond the person receiving and the person providing the care, causing positive and negative externalities.
- In health care, the critical externality in most systems is the care provided to others.
- You benefit from a positive externality of others receiving health care.
- Your health care costs are also affected by others choosing to purchase health care.
- Vaccinations: An interesting new development in health care is the advent of vaccines.
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- Health care has many inputs and a variety of incumbents, namely insurance providers, administrators, governments, and pharmaceuticals.
- Health Care Providers: On the surface, this is who a beneficiary feels like they are paying.
- Indeed, with this in mind, the graph displays the trajectory of health care spending due to excess costs in the long term .
- One of the most discussed topics in health care is accessibility.
- One of the larger issues in accessibility is nations without the infrastructure required to support health care industries.
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- Health care systems, on the global scale, is best defined via the World Health Organization's definition: "A health system consists of all organizations, people and actions whose primary intent is to promote, restore or maintain health.
- Germany has consistently demonstrated reductions in cost of health care per capita relative to GDP growth.
- German health care is regulated by the Federal Joint Commission, a public health organization which leverages governmental health reform bills to generate new regulations.
- This system also includes a total of 85% of the population on the government offered standardized health care plan, which covers a variety of health care needs across the board.
- This system has been highly effective and affordable in providing health care to German citizens.
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- Current issues in the U.S. health care system largely revolve around the significant policy changes resulting from the Affordable Care Act.
- Current issues in the U.S. health care system largely revolve around the significant policy changes imposed by the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare), which attempts to provide health insurance coverage for all citizens.
- Healthcare.gov: This is a way to enable consumers in finding health care insurers in a way that promotes capitalistic competition between providers.
- Overall, while the goal is to enable more people to health care more affordably, many people believe this new approach will do not accomplish that.
- This map outlines the voting distribution in 2009 when the Affordable Health Care Act was brought to the floor.
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- The insurance, pharmaceutical, hospital and medical industries have more interest in the social institutions that influence the delivery of health care than individuals.
- Health insurance emerged in the mid 1930's as a solution to the problems of random, catastrophic health care costs and how hospitals and doctors would receive financial payment.
- The insurance and health care providers (doctors, pharmaceutical, hospitals and insurance industries and firms) have a vested interest in maintaining the system that maintains their sources of revenue.
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- Universal healthcare: health care coverage that provides health care and financial protection to all citizens.
- It provides a specific package of benefits to all members of society with the goal of providing financial risk protection, improved access to health services, and improved health outcomes.
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- Some analysts have suggested that the official poverty figures overstate the real extent of poverty because they measure only cash income and exclude certain government assistance programs such as Food Stamps, health care, and public housing.
- Others point out, however, that these programs rarely cover all of a family's food or health care needs and that there is a shortage of public housing.
- Some argue that even families whose incomes are above the official poverty level sometimes go hungry, skimping on food to pay for such things as housing, medical care, and clothing.
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- For the purposes of calculating the amount of income subject to garnishment, United States federal law defines disposable income as an individual's compensation (including salary, overtime, bonuses, commission, and paid leave) after the deduction of health insurance premiums and any amounts required to be deducted by law.
- In other words, it is the amount of an individual's income available for spending after the essentials (such as food, clothing, and shelter) have been taken care of.