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This 4-page paper is an overview of differences between HIPAA and COBRA, as well as an explanation about scheduling difficulties when it comes to healthcare. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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with the U.S. healthcare system, this can sometimes be a dubious prospect. Though touted as better than nationalized healthcare, the U.S. system shares many of the downsides of nationalized healthcare,
including long waits for appointments, especially when it comes to seeing a specialist. Furthermore, rising healthcare costs mean most individuals are getting hit with a higher expenditure when it comes
to treating illnesses. In this paper, well examine some of the facets of health care, such as HIPAA and COBRA -- and the need for some kind of health care
reform. One step on the way to proposed reform was the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act -- or HIPAA for short.
The legislation was first introduced with the best of intentions; to enable patients to retain healthcare when changing jobs -- and to ensure that previous conditions werent going to be
an issue when it came to current treatment (McBride, 2008). But according to a national survey of more than 1,500 epidemiologists, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association,
75% of the respondents believed that HIPAA has had more problems than solutions when it comes to patients privacy and portability (McBride, 2008). Even worse, there is no proof that
HIPAA is actually protecting patients privacy and confidentiality (McBride, 2008). Granted, the respondents were of a particular specialty, but HIPAA in a busy doctors office could create some administrative problems.
But the "portability" issue in HIPAA is considered a boon, as is the area of physician fraud -- with HIPAA, physicians can
no longer fleece the system. But in some cases, some physicians, trying to do honest work, are caught when they try to prescribe something that might not necessarily be by
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