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A 9 page paper offering a conceptual model, theoretical model, hypothesis, statement of the problem and theoretical framework in the quest to define health care and whether equal access is a right or a privilege. The hypothesis is that preventive care can be cost effective if approached in a systematic manner such as altering the software of the existing inpatient care provider order entry (CPOE) system. The paper discusses the vision of Oregon’s experimental system. Bibliography lists 13 sources, 5 of which are annotated.
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9 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KShlthCareAcc.rtf
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Accessibility to and the cost of health care have been overriding issues in recent decades. We have seen the advent and growth of health maintenance organizations (HMOs),
the explosive growth of Medicare and Medicare abuses and the resulting "crackdown" on Medicare policies and procedures. Though there has been great debate over how to manage health care
in the US, it has been relatively recently that the question has been raised that perhaps access to health care is not a right as has been assumed, but rather
a privilege that belongs only to those who can pay for their own care or arrange for a third-party payer to pay the bulk of the cost.
The most obvious conclusion that has come of the ongoing debate in health care is that we need to first define whether it is a right
or a privilege. There are those who maintain that health care is no more a right than is the "right" to drive fast cars; far more subscribe to the
view that access to health care is a basic right of all people. The advent and growth of health insurance was a great
advance at the time, but it created the scenario in which those receiving health care were not those paying for health care. As costs escalated over the next four
decades, employers found themselves facing increasingly high premiums, some crippling so. Only large employers are able to offer employees employer-paid coverage now. Because it is small business that
collectively provides the greatest number of jobs in the country, this shift has left many uninsured or grossly underinsured. Problem The primary problem
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