Posted by admin | Posted in Health | Posted on 30-01-2010
The American Health Care Academy believes that caretaking provides a purpose in life. Volunteers from the AHCA spent an afternoon at the senior care center at St. Joseph’s Residence on October 17, 2008 to bring good will and companionships to the residents.
St. Joseph’s Residence, www.stjr.org, is an assisted living facility in Dallas that has been operating for 50 years. Run by the Bethlemite Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus They are one of America’s best long term care providers and work with residents to provide assisted living for single men, women and married couples over the age 65. The Sisters pride themselves on giving a high quality of life that includes annual field trips, daily activities and programs and social gatherings in a beautiful park-like setting.
The staff of American Health Care Academy began a volunteer program as a way of giving back to the community. The residents at St. Joseph’s started the afternoon with a rousing, hour long game of BINGO! Everyone loves to play and high participation kept everyone laughing and having a good time. Winners were given prizes which they treasured.
After BINGO, the staff set up a craft activity and assisted residents in preparing and decorating picture frames. The idea was to actively engage the seniors in helping to make a gift they could give to loved ones or family members. Many residents worked closely with American Health Care Academy volunteers to create special works of art to give as gifts to the sisters who run St. Joseph’s Residence or keep and put pictures of their loved one in them. The Bethlemite Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus were very appreciative of the thoughtfulness of the residents and of the participation of AHCA volunteers.
The American Health Care Academy offers nationally certified Online CPR classes. Online training allows flexibility and paced learning that many people respond well to. When the CPR certification class is complete, people have a stronger ability to respond to emergency situations.
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When American Health Care Academy is not busy answering phone calls, responding to e-mails, sending out CPR certifications they are giving back to the community. Friday, October 17, 2008 American Health Care Academy staff members volunteered at a local nursing home.
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who sets the prices of drugs in the American health care system?I'm doing an essay on how to fix the american health care system by adopting foreign policies on their system.
For example in Germany, prices are negotiated between doctors and non-profit health companies,or sickness funds, thus no government intervention. so there is one price in the public system.
Now how does the american system work?
who sets the prices of drugs?
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ok folks, only answer if you know what i am asking, if not, then don't bother answering.
I don't know everything about canada's system, but you have a national health care system that you pay for with taxes. We would still have health insurance that everyone must purchase, however if you are unable to afford it, our government will help subsidize it.
Greater involvement of the Insurance companies.
Perhaps catastrophic underwriting? Aid to purchase insurance
policies for the poor.
If you want quality at an affordable price, private industry is the only
option. The govt cannot provide it.
@ShowdownBlamBlam Don’t feed the troll. Bigbad is clearly out of it. Ignore him. Small minded ones like him just get bored and move on.
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@Martial024 And they will through taxes! What about people who are turned down for health insurance, for pre existing conditions, and in some cases, these people never had the condition, but somebody in there family did. Do they deserve healthcare?
I'm an American.
The American system is a for-profit healthcare system. This means that the foremost concern really isn't the quality of care, it's about the profitability of the system overall. In Europe, the cost of a procedure does not matter, as it is purely the doctor's decision as to what procedures are necessary.
In the United States, here's the process for being treated:
If you have health insurance in the United States, you pay monthly premiums. These premiums are paid because the Insurance companies are betting that you won't get sick, whereas you are betting that you will. Let's say you go 10 years without getting sick: The insurance companies are hoping that–in aggregate–the money you've paid in over those 10 years is less than what the cost of a procedure would actually be. This way, you're paying for the convenience/comfort of knowing that an expensive procedure will be covered.
In reality, the insurance companies are allowed to apply a broad range of restrictions to the care they will offer. For instance, if you don't have insurance, but you want to get insurance, there is a term called "preexisting condition". If I have diabetes, and I for some reason don't have insurance, but I want to go out on my own and get health insurance, I can probably get it, however any injuries/issues relating to diabetes would be labeled a 'preexisting condition'. This means that they won't cover any of the cost, and you'll be forced to do so. I know people that have a feeling something is wrong with them, but they wait to go to the doctor to receive a diagnosis until after they've purchased health insurance. If they didn't do that, the insurance company will get a hold of the medical records and find out that prior to receiving insurance you had a 'preexisting condition'. And then they won't pay it.
Even without preexisting conditions, the other big disqualifier is called "experimental procedures". An insurance company will often refuse to cover a certain procedure that it deems 'experimental'. This could be anything from a dental/tooth implant to a bone marrow transplant. It has nothing to do with what is designated as 'experimental' by any medical society. This term only applies to the insurance companies, and they are allowed, by law, to decide what they will and will not pay for.
Not having insurance at all is even worse. Yes, by law people without insurance /should/ be treated. In actuality, however, there is no incentive in the system to give these people good treatment. If a hospital provides 'good' care for those without health insurance, all of the cost of these procedures comes out of their own pocket. In actuality what happens most often is that a bare modicum of treatment is given, enough to get the patient out the door.
Having health insurance in no way protects you from the exorbitant costs of healthcare, either. Take another example. A coworker of mine lost his mother to cancer when he was 12 years old. The health insurance provider stopped paying for her treatment once it reached the $500k 'maximum' that they are obligated to provide. So when the doctor's would say, "There's a new drug that will relieve her pain", how could they say no? So this new, very expensive drug was being paid for out of pocket. The remaining months of her life led the family into huge debt.
It's 10 years later, and my coworker's father is still hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, struggling to pay off the money owed for the treatment and care of his sick wife.
Does this system seem in any way like a 'good' system to you? It's not. The only way people get encouraged to support it is via scare tactics. It's not that our system is great. People aren't afraid of losing a great system. People are just afraid that it will become even WORSE. Politicians, notably Republican ones, prey upon this fear so that the wealthy health insurance lobbyists will continue to bribe them with hefty campaign contributions.
from what i know americans pay taxes to be wasted in grants for medical companies.
they'll then charge medications for profits and even if insured will bill the govt overpriced as it's only tax payer money.
one day open source government will prob just cover everyone for everything. (well hopefully)
The US population is way larger; in addition, Canada has much stricter immigration policies than the US.
@ShowdownBlamBlam If your students were so smart then why do they allow a gov’t to make them wait on list for medical care? Why don’t they see that a politician that forces you to use a horrible system himself comes to the USA for the superior health care ?? WTF do you mean donation ?? Rich people make donations in Canada to get better health care ? In the USA a bus driver has the same care as Bill Gates because insurance makes everyone equal.
Beaches.
OMG…NO!!!!!!!!!
Do you remember that little hurricane the experts got so panicky about a few years ago? Plenty of people gave dire warnings, but the people in charge of telling everybody to evacuate gambled on it being overblown. I think I recall hearing the complaints of hype back then too.
Then Katrina wiped out New Orleans, the doom-and-gloom experts were proven spot-on and those in charge look like idiots for being so blase. At least one high ranking government official got canned.
So…the "Relax…Don't worry! Everything will (probably) be OK" approach to emergency management is not quite as popular as it used to be.
Everyone in America has the choice of whether or not they want to purchase health care. There is currently no national health care system. Generally speaking, If you pay for health insurance, you pay a monthly or yearly amount, and then (depending on the plan you pay for), they will pay either the full amount, or most of your payment due whenever you visit a doctor. Different plans cover different things, have different costs, and have different allowable expenses per year. It's really up to you to do the research and decide what kind of plan is best for you. Often times, you can get very cheap, but very good health insurance benefits if you work for the state or national government. It may even be free! Many companies also offer some kind of discounted health insurance for working for their company.
To answer your second question, most people usually choose a doctor they trust and stick with them, but you can go to any general doctor you choose. Hospitals are usually reserved for the much more serious injuries, and so we have offices that usually house 4-5 doctors (depending on the size of the city, and the size of the practice), which take care of patients with complaints ranging from trouble sleeping all the way up to some more serious colds. The health insurance is usually billed automatically at the conclusion of your visit, and you are usually given what's called a co-pay. The co-pay is the amount you agree with your insurance company to pay every time you visit the doctor's office. It's usually 10-20 USD.
@Martial024 Your already force to pay for things you don’t want! Do you agree with every tax dollar that is spent by the government. Look at all the citizens who do not afree with the Iraq war! They still have to pay for that war crime that your government is involved in!
AHB isn't insurance. Read the small print, they aren't going to PAY anything. All they do, is sell you a LIST. The list is doctors who allegedly will give you a discount. There is no guarantee, that those names on the list, will actually give you a discount.
And 20% off of a $500 bill, still leaves you paying $400.
So, it's not COVERAGE, as they don't PAY anything.
@darrenhol Danny Williams is all the evidence anyone needs to blow your stories out of the water. I spoke to a guy in NYC whose parents live in Toronto and he travels to canada just to fight with his parents doctors to get them treatment for diabetes. He flew both his parents to NYC and took them to nyu for full physicals and to adjust their medication. Never has an American been sent to Canukville to see a doctor. keep making stuff up, I’ll show you the facts, U R 2 EZ
@bigbad169 wow asshole, shut up. Canadian school systems ARE superior to American, that’s why your high school graduates are TWO YEARS behind ours, why our students know something about history and geography and yours don’t.
The only problem with our health care system is the wait lists and we don’t have all the funding that you guys do. The system is supported by tax dollars and government supplementation not rich people making generous ‘donations’ for their own means.
@darrenhol Don’t feed the troll known as Bigbad. He’s full of ancedotal stories, and seems to know a lot of people “who parents live in Canada”. The facts are, he has no facts. Ignore him. He will go away.