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		<title>Home Health Care Michigan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since 1988, Excellacare, Inc. has been proudly serving the Metro Detroit area with high-quality home health assistants and skilled service providers including nurses and therapists. Our staff is dedicated to helping you with your home care needs. If you are looking for a homecare provider to help you or your loved ones enjoy their life [...]]]></description>
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<p>Since 1988, Excellacare, Inc. has been proudly serving the Metro Detroit area with high-quality home health assistants and skilled service providers including nurses and therapists. Our staff is dedicated to helping you with your home care needs. If you are looking for a homecare provider to help you or your loved ones enjoy their life in the comfort of home, we are the company for you.</p>
<p>How visiting your doctor regularly benefits you:<br />
We should all go see our doctors at least once a year to get our yearly exam, unless we have illnesses that require frequent visits. This will help your doctor keep watch over your health. The doctor keeps a watch on your blood pressure, check your heart and so on. Breast exams, vaginal exams and other exams are essential for women. Every six months women should seek a pelvic exam and once a year depending on age, the patient should get a mammogram. </p>
<p>There are a million reasons to see your doctor regularly. If you stay healthy you will feel better and you will be running stronger when the rest of us are laying in our bed wishing we would had listen.</p>
<p>How do I find a doctor?<br />
Finding a doctor is not hard for some and harder for others. You can check with people and ask them whom they have for a doctor or you can call your local hospital in your area and see who is in your area. Keep in mind that because you do not have a doctor now, it may make you feel uncomfortable when seeing a doctor for the first time. You need to find a doctor that makes you feel comfortable for this reason.</p>
<p>You have to have a friendship with your doctor this way you will feel more a rest. If you do not like your doctor, other doctors are available that you can visit. </p>
<p>You just have to find one that you like and go with that one.</p>
<p>How frequent doctor visits make you feel healthier:<br />
You will feel healthier for one thing when you visit the doctor frequently. Frequent visits will make you feel much better in the end. If there is something, wrong with you the doctor will be able to see it and can with hopes fix the problem but it you don’t go the doctor will not be able to fix the problems.</p>
<p>Doctors are your best friend. When you have a doctor in your corner the doctor will take extra care to make sure you are healthy.</p>
<p>The doctor can help you to live a healthier life so you will look younger and feel younger. Do you know that saying ole’ saying, “you are as old as you feel?” This saying can become yours by visiting your doctor frequently.</p>
<p>As we grow older, we often feel sluggish. The reason is that our living cells are not replacing dying cells as quickly, as well other mechanisms within us, such as metabolism is not producing as quick. This causes us to feel sluggish. To feel better we need vitamins, herbs, and medications sometimes.</p>
<p>What we need is accomplished when we seek professional support, since that support, team will evaluate and diagnose your problems. The diagnostics is what determines what the doctor can do to help you feel better. If you ignore the doctor, you may face Alzheimer’s disease, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, strokes and so on. Most diagnosis have cures, the problem is most people do not seek medical attention until it is too late.</p>
<p>If you are seeking medical support, you can go online, type in your zip code and conduct a random search. The sites online will offer you a list of doctors in your area.</p>
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		<title>Obama health care ? health care reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Health care reform is a new feature came into practice after Obama won the political battle. This is a very new service available to all Americans but hardly any have the knowledge of health care reform, this article totally aims at informing the American people about health care reform and the advantages they are [...]]]></description>
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<p>Health care reform is a new feature came into practice after Obama won the political battle. This is a very new service available to all Americans but hardly any have the knowledge of health care reform, this article totally aims at informing the American people about health care reform and the advantages they are about to receive due to approval of this plan. In this article I have listed all the benefits you are going to receive form health care reform below.</p>
<p>With the help of health care reform you will receive more Medicare benefits, donut hole was very notorious part of medical part d instruction drug advantage and of distress to many people who have united a Part D drug plan. But now you can get an instant 250$   refund if you hit the donut hole. Another big advantage of heath care reform is there will no fees for senior citizens this will facilitate the senior citizens to visit doctor without any worry of the cost because it will be available for free.</p>
<p>In the next 10 years the medical bill cuts deficits by 130 billion dollars and more impressive it cuts 1.3 trillion dollar in next 20 years. </p>
<p>The biggest news for small business man&#8217;s are there will immediately be new tax credit which will pay up to 35% of the health insurance costs of employees. By 2014 that number will be up to 50%. This will be a huge tax cut for small businesses so when the Republicans are running against this bill they are running for a huge tax increase on small businesses.</p>
<p><strong>Obama health care</strong>has established varied sentiments from people all over the nation. Some are in favor and others feel that the government has completely taken control of their rights. For the middle class Americans, many trusts Obama care will unfavorably affect themselves and the upper class. While it does make important changes to our current system, every class will be exaggerated in one way or another. These were some of the advantages and disadvantages of Obama health care reform. Hope this article helped you in getting helpful information, if you have any questions or doubt please feel free to contact us or explore our website for more information on health care reform.</p>
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<p>These were some of the advantages and disadvantages of Obama health care reform.<strong>Obama health care</strong> has established varied sentiments from people all over the nation.</p>
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		<title>America&#8217;s Health Care Crisis-Nationalized Health Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The enormity of the health care crisis goes well beyond those who are able to pay for services and those who are not. Although, it is important to realize that there are many uninsured American&#8217;s it is also important to realize that the high cost of health care in America lends itself to some of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> The enormity of the health care crisis goes well beyond those who are able to pay for services and those who are not. Although, it is important to realize that there are many uninsured American&#8217;s it is also important to realize that the high cost of health care in America lends itself to some of the greatest health care advances in the world.</p>
<p>There is no question that a Nationalized Health Care system will benefit those who can no longer afford health care for a better life. But this system could very well mean cut back in research and development of new and better cures and procedures for disease victims of HIV and the many forms of cancer. There could be a greater than expected trade off.</p>
<p>Part of the high cost of the American health care system stems from the desire to do the scientific research needed to further investigate the diseases that are killing people and assists in finding new cures and treatments as well as technological advances in the area of screenings for these illnesses. </p>
<p>At first glance, it may seem that American&#8217;s pay way too much for their health insurance and for health care, but in the long run this extra money is invested in the overall lives of the American public.</p>
<p>While the bigger picture would paint the overall numbers of people being able to have affordable health care options, they fail to report the lack of much needed funds required to make medical advancements possible. Other countries with a government run health care system have to depend on other nations to come up with new and better more effective ways to treat the health problems of its population.</p>
<p>The United States is a forerunner in health care because it takes the money that it obtains and uses it not only to treat those who are sick with current treatments but also to dig deeper looking for better and more advanced ways to treat the ill and find the diseases more quickly. </p>
<p>These advances are necessary to improve longevity and survival rates from a variety of different diseases. Moving to a nationalized system of health care may reduce the technological advances being made in this country, reducing the overall quality of life in the United States while providing more people with health insurance to cover them for this lesser quality of health care.</p>
<p>There are tons of individual health insurance companies to check into. Finding the right medical insurance is something to be very careful with.</p>
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		<title>Residence Wellness Aide Instruction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Residence wellbeing aides give patients standard home and health care care and as opposed to other health care practitioners these kinds of as nursing assistants, they are specifically educated to operate in the patient&#8217;s property. This is the main difference amongst a property well being aide and a nurse&#8217;s aide or assistant, the areas that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Residence wellbeing aides give patients standard home and health care care and as opposed to other health care practitioners these kinds of as nursing assistants, they are specifically educated to operate in the patient&#8217;s property. This is the main difference amongst a property well being aide and a nurse&#8217;s aide or assistant, the areas that they are predicted to operate in. Due to continual sickness or even accident recovery, clients are in want of the companies supplied by house wellbeing aides. In these kinds of scenarios on top of standard health care treatment, patients will require help with meal preparation, jogging errands and light housekeeping.</p>
<p>It is no surprise for that reason, that the academic requirements for one to get started property wellness aide instruction are minimum. A high college diploma or GED is typically not needed. Typically most coaching applications demand that a single is a citizen of the US or a long lasting resident, is eighteen a long time or more mature, can read write and speak fluent English at a sixth grade amount or increased, pass a drug screening examination and has no felonies on their report. </p>
<p>In some circumstances, an aptitude check for math and English might be a requirement. Right after this stage has been accomplished, sensible or fingers-on instruction from a accredited professional these kinds of as a registered nurse will be the subsequent thing that is necessary. Basic medical techniques, this kind of as getting blood pressure, recording medical notes, administering prescription medication and infection management are all on the menu throughout the education period of time. The certification needs can range in between diverse companies and states. Employers, who obtain compensation from Medicare, are needed by regulation to enroll house wellness aide experts, who have received regular training even though. Especially, licensure demands that the practitioner has finished sixteen hours of medical encounter and seventy five hours of in-class perform.</p>
<p>Due to the fact the demand for residence health aides is so substantial, totally free residence wellbeing aide training is staying supplied by numerous residence treatment organizations seeking for motivated and skilled workers. For people intending to undertake residence wellbeing aide instruction, the Countrywide Affiliation for Residence treatment and Hospice (NAHH) offers certification for those intending to just take the NAHH home wellness aide test. In addition, this association&#8217;s site has details on job listings, certification for several medical applications and more, all relevant to the house wellbeing aide profession. It can be a excellent useful resource for the curious or even these currently in the discipline of residence wellbeing treatment looking for to expand in their picked profession.</p>
<p>Presented the very low barrier to entry, as there are possibilities to obtain free of charge education, a career in home treatment can be commenced with a minimal financial expense. As one particular grows in self-confidence, proficiency, knowledge, education and popularity, they can also anticipate to aid sufferers in need to have. The career of a home health aide involves a broad selection of options generally based on locality. You really should check out out your locality for equally instruction and work in this at the moment expanding area.</p>
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		<title>Home Wellbeing Aide Coaching</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A house wellness aide is a person who offers every day care for sufferers who are recovering from an sickness or injury in the comforts of their personal home. Most of the sufferers beneath the care of a residence wellbeing aide are these that are struggling from a final sickness, injuries from an incident or [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A house wellness aide is a person who offers every day care for sufferers who are recovering from an sickness or injury in the comforts of their personal home. Most of the sufferers beneath the care of a residence wellbeing aide are these that are struggling from a final sickness, injuries from an incident or other minimal well being situations that avert them from leaving their houses temporarily. This kind of occupation is turning into in desire nowadays because of the growing amount of patients that need to have the solutions of a residence wellness aide. Since of this, numerous institutions have began providing house wellbeing aide instruction software programs which is open up to any person interested.</p>
<p>The Principal Duties</p>
<p>Property wellness aide instruction gives the needed fingers-on coaching and lectures about the major tasks of a home wellbeing aide. It teaches about generating the patient as cozy as doable during his convalescence period of time at house. </p>
<p>These tasks could consist of some minor housekeeping chores, food preparing as effectively as operating errands for the individual. There might also be instances when you will be necessary to generate the patient to his doctor&#8217;s appointments. The major duty that is taught in the residence wellbeing aide education is to provide all the demands of the affected person, inside reason of program.</p>
<p>The Value Of Education</p>
<p>House wellness aide coaching is not specifically a necessity to be ready to perform as a house wellbeing aide but if you are not trained then your obligations will be extremely restricted. You will only be tasked to do fundamental housekeeping chores like cleansing the residence, washing dishes, cooking and cleaning up following the individual. If your obligations are very confined then your income will also be very low as compared to someone who has the proper instruction. It is important to get property health aide training so that you can carry out far more specialised and medical tasks.</p>
<p>Licensure Examination</p>
<p>After completing the house well being aide coaching you are now certified to consider the licensure test. The moment you pass the examination, you will obtain a license. The licensure examination needs are at least 75 hrs of lectures as nicely as 16 hours of palms-on coaching in using treatment of a affected person in his personal house.</p>
<p>Education Coverage</p>
<p>Property wellbeing aide education covers topic regions related to patient treatment like cleanliness and suitable nutrition. You will also be taught how to study crucial symptoms as nicely as the suitable approach in lifting and transferring the patient. Infection manage and protection is also portion of the training so that you will know how to just take treatment of clients with extremely contagious illnesses.</p>
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		<title>Spiraling Health Care Costs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Americans are deeply unhappy with the country&#8217;s health care programs and costs. And rightly so. As one author observed, &#8220;A recent survey showed that only 17 percent of respondents in the United States were content with their health-care system . . . Why the discontent? The superficial reasons are simple enough to describe: the system [...]]]></description>
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<p>Americans are deeply unhappy with the country&#8217;s health care programs and costs. And rightly so. As one author observed, &#8220;A recent survey showed that only 17 percent of respondents in the United States were content with their health-care system . . . Why the discontent? The superficial reasons are simple enough to describe: the system is hugely expensive, very bureaucratic, and extremely patchy. The expenses first: U.S. health care costs a third more, per person, than that of the closest rival, superrich Switzerland, and twice what many European countries spend. The United States government alone spends more per person than the combination of public and private expenditure in Britain, despite the fact that the British government provides free health care for all residents.&#8221; </p>
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<p>The United States pays more for health care per capita than any other industrialized nation &#8212; and even then, Medicare is not a comprehensive, pay-for-everything national health program like those of many nations and United States per capita health care costs continue to escalate rapidly. </p>
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<p>Here&#8217;s what you need to know about health care costs as you plan for retirement. </p>
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<p>Americans age sixty-five and over spend four times more on health care on average than do Americans under the age of sixty-five. At the outset of this decade, the average per capita health-care outlay for a person under the age of sixty-file was about ,800. For people over the age of sixty-five, it was ,089. And for Americans ages eighty-five and older it was ,001. Clearly, health care outlays are likely to get substantially larger as you age. You need to plan for them. </p>
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<p>U.S. health care expenses have grown mightily. U.S. health care expenses have dramatically escalated each year as new medications, new treatments, diagnostic tools, and health care innovations have come onto the market.      </p>
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<p>For example, the median nationwide cost for a hospital stay &#8212; excluding physicians charges &#8212; was ,280 in 1997; by 2004 it was almost double at ,455. The average total cost for treating a heart attack climbed 40 percent in just seven years. All in, health care costs have escalated fast and the increases are gaining momentum. </p>
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<p>Health care costs are likely to continue to grow unabated. Unlike in other countries, no laws meaningfully curb the continual climb of health care and drug costs in the United States. For example, many Americans continue to import drugs from Canada because Canadian prices are significantly lower. This is true even though the new Medicare Features introduced in 2006 offset the cost of pharmaceuticals for U.S. retirees. To curb the cost of medicines, Canada prohibits drug companies from advertising on its television channels. In the United States, on the other hand, the very legislation that created the new Medicare drug benefit (Part D) expressly prohibits the federal government from attempting to negotiate lower prices with drug companies. </p>
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<p>Count on it: medical costs are sky-high and likely to keep climbing unless there is a radical overhaul of the system.</p>
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<p>More and more corporations are cutting back on health care benefits as medical costs soar. Recent statistics show companies cutting health care benefits and requiring employees and retirees to pay more for them. As one survey of corporate benefit trends concluded, &#8220;[Benefit] reductions have become not just common, but expected, with the only question now being of how much more of a reduction in benefits and or an increase in cost will be directly placed on individuals . . . In the end . . . individuals, either as taxpayers or consumers, will need to pay the bill.</p>
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<p>I believe this trend will gain greater momentum over the next decades. It will be part and parcel of the continuing erosion of employment benefits &#8212; like the demise of traditional pensions &#8212; that is taking place throughout the country. Just like pensions, more and more health-care expense is going to become a do-it-yourself responsibility because heath care insurance costs are simply becoming too great for companies to shoulder competitively. </p>
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<p>Taken all together, you can count on: (1) higher and higher health care costs, (2) more health-care-benefit cutbacks by U.S. employers, (3) the need to factor large health-care expenses into your funding plans, and (4) the need to buy supplemental health-care insurance to shield your savings from cost attack. </p>
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<p>Of course, these views will not come as a surprise to most folks. Recent polls show that &#8212; immediately after the foremost financial concern of having enough money for retirement &#8212; the next great concern of most Americans is health care. More than half of adult Americans are &#8220;very worried&#8221; or &#8220;moderately worried&#8221; about being able to pay for serious illness or catastrophic health-care expense. </p>
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<p>Copyright © 2008 by Jim Schlagheck</p>
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<p>The above is an excerpt from the book Cash-Rich Retirement<br />&#13;</p>
<p>by Jim Schlagheck<br />&#13;</p>
<p>Published by St. Martin&#8217;s Press; March 2008;.95US/.00CAN; 978-0-312-37740-3<br />&#13;</p>
<p>Copyright © 2008 by Jim Schlagheck</p>
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<p>Author<br />&#13;</p>
<p>Jim Schlagheck is an author, banker, longtime advisor to the ultrawealthy, and the coproducer of the public television series Retirement Revolution. He has written numerous articles on investing, retirement, and finance, and is also an acclaimed speaker who describes better ways for retirement readiness to audiences of wealth-management professionals and lay investors nationwide.                 </p>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many people do you know who think their Congressperson has the answers to providing health care in America?  Or, their Senator?  George W. Bush?   Barack Obama or  Hillary Clinton?  Or, for that matter, any politician?  Do they really have the answers? &#13;   &#13; If they can’t do it, then how about the politicians in [...]]]></description>
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<p>How many people do you know who think their Congressperson has the answers to providing health care in America?  Or, their Senator?  George W. Bush?   Barack Obama or  Hillary Clinton?  Or, for that matter, any politician?  Do they really have the answers?</p>
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<p>If they can’t do it, then how about the politicians in Canada, or Great Britain?  Have they solved the problem in their societies?  Some people believe they have.  However, in England, where the private practice of medicine was outlawed when socialized medicine was first established there, they were eventually forced to reverse their policy and permit the public to go outside the government’s system to obtain health care from private physicians.  </p>
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<p>In Canada today, the story is much the same.  Many Canadians come to the U.S. for emergent needs, such as bypass surgery, because the waiting time in Canada is interminable, often many months before their citizens can get life-saving treatment when they need it.  </p>
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<p><strong>State-Run Health Care</strong></p>
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<p>All state-run health care systems have one thing in common: rationing.  Not necessarily involving the use of ration cards, but rationing nonetheless.  Rationing of resources.  The cause is a devilishly simple principle that’s present in all nationalized health care programs.  That is, it’s free, or so low cost that it’s almost free.  Basic economics clearly demonstrates that whenever something is free, the demand quickly becomes unlimited.  The lower the price, the greater the demand.  Give something away and you can “sell” everything you have and more.</p>
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<p>However, the flip side of unlimited demand is a shortage of supply.  And, not having enough doctors, nurses, or expensive equipment, such as CAT Scans and MRIs, eventually leads to rationing.  Without enough health care to go around, rationing becomes a necessity.  That has been the failing with nationalized health care in England, Canada, Germany, Japan, the former USSR, everywhere it has been tried.</p>
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<p>So, if there are no politicians who really know what should be done to solve our health care problems why do we keep expecting them to come up with the answers?</p>
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<p>    </p>
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<p>Just exactly what are the problems?  Too many uninsured?  Too high cost?  Poor quality?  Lack of availability?  All of the above?  Do you know or think you know?</p>
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<p>What have been the government’s (read politicians’) solutions to date?</p>
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<p> </p>
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<p><strong>Health Care Policy</strong></p>
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<p>National health care (socialized medicine) in one form or another is the primary health care policy that is gradually being adopted in America.  And it is slowly but surely lowering the quality of the health care we are getting.  Talk to any doctor you trust and see if they don’t agree.  They will tell you that they are working much longer hours for far less money, that many physicians are retiring early or converting to “concierge” practices because they are fed up with the government and insurance company bureaucrats telling them how to practice medicine.  Consequently, there is a growing shortage of doctors and nurses.</p>
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<p>But, you may say, we don’t have socialized medicine in America!  Perhaps not yet, but we’ve been moving in that direction for some time, and we seem to be going further down that path as the years progress.  It’s a slippery slope.   For example, consider Medicare.  </p>
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<p>But, Medicare is not socialized medicine, you may insist.</p>
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<p>     </p>
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<p>Unfortunately, it is, or is headed that way.  Why?  For one thing, it’s a system that’s based on price controls.  </p>
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<p><strong>Price Controls</strong></p>
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<p>Price controls have never worked, ever, in any society at any time in history.  They were tried as early as 301 A.D. by a Roman emperor, Diocletian (243-316 A.D.) who implemented price controls under penalty of death.  But, even that didn’t work, and it hasn’t worked since.  What price controls do is cause shortages, increased costs and disrupted markets.</p>
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<p>     </p>
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<p>Look at what has happened to the Medicare program since 1984, the year the government changed its method of paying for hospital services from a “cost plus” to a system called DRGs (Diagnostic Related Groupings).  DRGs are a method of classifying illnesses and assigning a comparative value and a specific authorized payment to each.  At that point, many hospitals began to lose money because the government started dictating the prices that are paid for inpatient care.</p>
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<p> </p>
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<p>As much as 70% of many hospitals’ patients are seniors, whose bills are paid by Medicare.  The Federal Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) determines, in its sole discretion, the prices that can be charged for seniors’ inpatient hospital care, and then pays only 80% of those amounts.  The differences between a hospital’s standard fees for service and the amounts that Medicare pays must be written off.  They cannot be collected from the patient.  That’s price control.</p>
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<p>Furthermore, because Medicare payments are determined solely by the government, annual cost of living increases are limited, generally to between 1-1/2% and 2-1/2%, in spite of the fact that hospital costs have been rising for years at an annual rate of anywhere from 6% to 14%.  </p>
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<p>Another little known fact about Medicare is that seniors are prevented from seeking care outside the Medicare system, even if they are willing to pay the bill themselves.  Any doctor who accepts payment directly from a senior who is covered by Medicare is automatically disqualified from providing care to all Medicare patients for a period of two years.  This is especially important in situations where a patient wants a second opinion and would like to see another doctor.  That type of regulation is certainly an element of socialized medicine.</p>
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<p><strong>Many Hospitals Lose Money</strong></p>
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<p>Between health insurance contracts (HMOs) and Medicare limits on their charges, hospitals generally collect only about 50% of their total billings.  The rest is written off.  The result of all this is predictable: many of them are losing money.  About one-third of all hospitals in California are currently operating at a loss.  With a national health care plan, at some point, many hospitals would either be closed or services curtailed.  That’s been the pattern in every country that has nationalized its health care.  Nonetheless, that seems to be where we are headed, in spite of compelling evidence that it doesn’t work.  </p>
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<p>Like the proverbial frog being cooked in a pot of cold water, Americans are gradually becoming aware that the quality of their health care is declining, even as costs continue to rise.  It just hasn’t sunk in yet.  When it does, they will undoubtedly be led into believing the government has the answers and demand more government control, regulation and oversight.  And, our politicians will be only too willing to oblige.  </p>
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<p>     </p>
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<p><strong>Nationalized Health Care</strong></p>
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<p>Nationalized health care in America is gradually overtaking the free market, and we are all being slowly cooked in the pot of government intervention.   So, don’t be surprised at the type of health care program we get as time progresses.  Whatever your own conclusions, remember one thing: that our politicians won’t have to rely on whatever health care plan they establish for everyone else.  As usual, they will have their own, superior plan.  And, it will not be a part of the nationalized health care system that the rest of us will be required to use.  If you doubt that assertion, just look at the health care plan that our Federal legislators and government employees have now.  </p>
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<p>In the interest of full disclosure, I’m one of those seniors who has Medicare health insurance coverage and I ran a hospital for about seven years.</p>
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<p>© 2008 Harris R. Sherline, All Rights Reserved</p>
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<p>The socialized system of healthcare delivery and financing, a relic of the British colonial era, still practiced in Sierra Leone has glaringly failed and any efforts at resuscitating it without implementation of major structural and systemic reform will only serve to prolong the inevitable.</p>
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<p>Throughout the world, total state control and management of industries, services, markets and the means of production are gradually becoming a relic of the past. This model as practiced in the Sierra Leone healthcare system has empirically been proven to have served only to stifle innovation, growth, productivity and quality output with a resultant decline in overall living and healthcare standards of the citizenry. The current state of the hospitals and health centers glaringly highlights the systemic problems endemic in the entire government owned, managed, financed and operated health care system.</p>
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<p>The continued operation of such a decadent and dilapidated delivery and financing system, lacking in even the basics of a modern healthcare infrastructure continues relegating Sierra Leone to the very bottom of the human development index.</p>
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<p>The transformation thus of the medical healthcare delivery and financing system into a private insurance or a national insurance based system offers opportunities not only for insurers to develop market-based medical insurance plans and policies but also serves to effectuate the Ministry of Health &amp; Sanitation’s desired policy goals, as espoused in the 2002 National Health Policy Paper.</p>
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<p>Both policy and regulatory officials, healthcare providers, the insurance industry and other stakeholders must be engaged to effectuate implementation of fundamental systemic reforms if the country is to avert an even greater catastrophe.</p>
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<p><strong>Privatization: </strong></p>
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<p>Under the proposed privatization plan, the Ministry of Health &amp; Sanitation will be transformed from ownership and management of hospitals, clinics, and employer of last resort for all physicians, nurses and ancillary healthcare providers into a health agency with only policy and regulatory functions.</p>
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<p>The goal will be for the health agency to serve as a policy and regulatory watch dog mandated with ensuring that adequate and quality medical care is provided at the various private hospitals, clinics and pharmacies that will inevitably be established with the break-up of the current government owned facilities.</p>
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<p>With the break-up and subsequent purchase or leases of these hospitals, clinics, health centers and other facilities, investors and entrepreneurs in an effort to realize maximum returns on investments, will economically be compelled to upgrade quality and standard of care, introduce state of the art equipment and technologies and engender a type of market forces competition which will inure only to the betterment of health consumers in the country.</p>
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<p>A much needed infusion of capital into the health care industry by such a privatization plan will clearly spur additional economic activities in ancillary industries, as the dynamic forces of privatization and market mechanism forces of demand and supply will ensure competition for the healthcare pie.</p>
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<p>Divestiture of Government Ownership:</p>
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<p>The dismantling of the current mammoth and highly inefficient government owned healthcare delivery and financing entity must from a public policy perspective be designed and restructured to ensure governmental ownership and management divestiture from hospitals and other health care facilities.</p>
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<p>Under such a scenario the government’s current enormous but woefully mismanaged capital outlay for health services will be substantially decreased as inefficiencies of corruption, salaries of providers, infrastructure maintenance, costs of medications and diagnostic equipments and other overhead operating costs will no longer be recurrent expenditures from the nation’s depleting coffers.</p>
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<p>A system based entirely on a private market-based national health insurance plan with private enterprise and market competition at its core appears the most logical reform policy route to ensure a future sound, efficient and profitable health care infrastructure.</p>
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<p> <strong>Health Insurance Plans:</strong></p>
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<p>The cog which the proposed new system must revolve around is a nationwide network of affordable health insurance plans creatively designed to ensure a greater pool participation of a majority of the population. In such a system health insurance companies and provider organizations will be established to market various health plans, with minimum services and premiums based on market conditions. The responsibility for monitoring compliance by the various plans would fall under the ambit of both the Ministry of Health and Sanitation and the Sierra Leone Insurance Commission.</p>
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<p>Multi-Payer System:</p>
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<p>A major plank in this proposed health care delivery and financing privatization hinges on the enactment of health insurance legislation providing for employers to provide health care for their employees and dependants as part of a standard benefits package with concomitant tax incentives and governmental subsidies to ensure compliance. With such legislation the virtual free socialized medical care system, the costs of which have been borne exclusively by the government will now be based on a multi-payer system in which government, employees and employers will all participate.</p>
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<p>With the system as currently structured however, only the government has a financial interest and stake and when other programs conflict with the financing of health care, politicians have only been too willing to sacrifice the health of their citizens on he alter of their greed and personal aggrandizement.</p>
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<p>It is envisaged that health insurance providers will introduce concepts and plans, such as Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO) and Preferred Provider Organizations (PPO), through alliances of health providers and insurance companies and marketed to employers, labor unions, governmental ministries and corporations on an annual premium basis.</p>
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<p>The competition engendered by such health organizations for the medical insurance pie will subsequently result in competitive rates, coverage, deductibles, co-payments and premiums to make health care costs affordable for all.</p>
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<p>The Unemployed:</p>
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<p>As unemployment and underemployment are perennial problems in the Sierra Leonean economy, the provision of health care benefits to this category of the population must remain the responsibility of government. Medical services provided to this category of citizens in a private enterprise environment must be reimbursed by the government on a negotiated and pre-determined fee schedule or an insurance mechanism established in which government negotiates with providers and carriers for the provision of services.</p>
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<p>As an example a fund established by levying taxes on the private health care providers, envisaged to emerge with such privatization, could be instituted and utilized to pay for these indigent services.</p>
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<p>Further, since the hospitals, medical clinics and other medical facilities will be operated as businesses, either for profit or as non-profit organizations, the market forces of demand and supply will certainly ensure that patient quality care, improvements in diagnostic technologies, competent personnel and a general responsiveness to the demands of the clients will drive the new marketplace. The lethargic and inefficient atmosphere witnessed at most government hospitals today with customer service virtually non existent would be a philosophy of the past.</p>
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<p>The economic viability of healthcare businesses will depend largely on the clientele they can attract and maintain utilizing the above yardstick. Providers of lousy health care plans and services will inevitably loose business to competitors as every year participants will have an opportunity to change health insurance plans.</p>
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<p>Since a large population of Sierra Leone resides in rural areas, the proposed privatization plan will ensure the expansion of health care facilities into areas currently inadequately serviced. This plan will ensure that clinics and doctors put up shop in every part of the country in order to tap into the healthcare services available in these rural areas.</p>
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<p>Challenges to Insurance Companies:</p>
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<p>Designing an insurance system and plan to cater to the needs of the rural population who often are self employed in farming and mining activities posses a challenge to insurers in Sierra Leone, who in the past have been largely passive and unimaginative in policy design to meet the challenges and risks confronting the nation’s socio-economic landscape.</p>
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<p>Proactive and creative underwriting of risks must be undertaking by underwriters, actuaries and marketing specialists to design, tailor and price health insurance coverage to meet the diverse needs of the insuring public. For example, the creation of pools by occupational categories could be one method by which insured’s, engaged in similar trades could be encouraged to form co-operatives for purposes of obtaining health insurance coverage at affordable rates for themselves and dependants. Premium payments through the pooling together of the co-operatives commodities can be an</p>
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		<title>Health Care: an Emerging Industry</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Health care is one of the most promising industries in the health and hospitability sector today. Health care relates to the prevention as well as to the treatment of illness. It also implies the overall mental and physical well being of individuals. A health care system refers to the organized functions which are involved in [...]]]></description>
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<p>                Health care is one of the most promising industries in the health and hospitability sector today. Health care relates to the prevention as well as to the treatment of illness. It also implies the overall mental and physical well being of individuals. A health care system refers to the organized functions which are involved in promoting the overall health of the country. The United Kingdom is the only industrialized country that does not offer health care universally. The National Health Service in the United Kingdom deals only with healthcare in the UK.</p>
<p>Overview of The Rising Health Care Sector</p>
<p>The health care industry is an industry that is considered to be one of the most budding among all other recent upcoming industries. Health care deals with delivering quality service towards improving the health of the people residing in a country. In recent years, the health care sector has been witnessing an upward surge. In a developed country, the health care industry contributes to 10% of the country&#8217;s gross national product. The professionally trained people serving the health care system ensure that all processes run smoothly.      </p>
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In most of the developed countries of the world, the health care sector has undergone a lot of privatization. This ensures that the systems that are developed under it run without any bottlenecks. There are several health care models that have come up in recent times. With the growing popularity of the health care industry, some major public insurance systems have also come forward to ensure the smooth functioning of the systems. There are numerous pay systems that have been developed to guarantee the accurate administration of the health care sector.</p>
<p>The health care industry has witnessed a rapid growth in recent times mainly due to its contribution in maintaining the overall health and hygiene of a country. Today, the governments of different countries invest a huge amount of money in the health care sector to ensure that the sector has the proper support needed to grow. Statistical studies have shown that the profit derived from the health care sector is huge, both from the social, as well as the economic point of view. It is due to these reasons that the health care sector is considered to be one of the most emerging and promising industries today.</p>
<p>The technological development brought forth by science in this 21st century, has been seen in the domain of the health care sector too. Today, there are many trained professionals who work in this sector. The professional touch has been given to the health care sector which goes a long way in delivering quality care and support to those who seek its help. With the increase of demand among the people of various countries, the health care sector is also undergoing various stages of evolution to cater to the changing needs and demands of the people. As a result, health care today, stands as one of the most significant industries of recent times. </p>
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		<title>Cialis &#8211; The Weekend Pill for Impotence</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Erectile dysfunction has long been a problem for men of all ages around the world. It is one of the most commonly experienced sexual problems by men. Erectile dysfunction is also referred to as impotence. It is a condition which makes it difficult for a man to achieve or sustain an erection long enough for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="justify"><img src="http://www.euroclinix.net/images/product/cialis-m.jpg" alt="Cialis" width="150" height="150" align="left" />Erectile dysfunction has long been a problem for men of all ages around the world. It is one of the most commonly experienced sexual problems by men. Erectile dysfunction is also referred to as impotence. It is a condition which makes it difficult for a man to achieve or sustain an erection long enough for satisfactory sexual intercourse. Men often lose their confidence in bed owing to this condition which adversely affects their sex life. You can treat impotence with the help of mechanical devices such as vacuum pumps or prescription medications available on the market.</p>
<p align="justify">One of the most popular and commonly used prescription medications for treating erectile dysfunction is <a href="http://www.euroclinix.net/cialis.html"><strong>Cialis</strong></a>. It consists of tadalafil as its active ingredient with the help of which it treats erectile problems in men. This pill works by relaxing the corpora cavernosa muscles in your penis. By relaxing the muscles, it leads to an increase in the blood flow in your penis. When the blood flow increases in your penis, you are able to achieve better erections and sustain them for a longer period of time as well.</p>
<p align="justify">The <a href="http://www.euroclinix.net/cialis-dosage.html">Cialis dosage</a> available on the market are 10mg and 20mg, of which you can choose the most suitable for yourself. You are required to take one pill at least 30 to 60 minutes before you engage in a sexual act. The effects of this pill last for up to 36 hours after taking the pill, which is why it is known as ‘the weekend pill’ as well. However, you should avoid using more than one Cialis pill within a span of 24 hours as it can lead to side effects. Some of the <a href="http://www.euroclinix.net/cialis-side-effects.html">Cialis side effects</a> that you can experience include headaches, indigestion and facial flushing.</p>
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