During the Great Recession, like any other economic downturns, as unemployment rises, aggregate income declines causing a major decline in tax collections. On the other hand, with the rise in unemployment, spending on safety net programs rise. So, to stabilize the national economy, government appears to have only two options (neither good) either to put […]
Discuss in your Journal post the key long-run problem of both Social Security and Medicare. Do you favor increasing taxes or do you prefer reducing benefits to fix the problem?
Social Security and Medicare Shortfall The Social Security and Medicare Shortfall; Discuss in your Journal post the key long-run problem of both Social Security and Medicare. Do you favor increasing taxes or do you prefer reducing benefits to fix the problem? explain your position. 300-500 words
Review the Resources and reflect on efforts to repeal/replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and consider who benefits the most when policy is developed and in the context of policy implementation.
Discussion: Politics and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Regardless of political affiliation, individuals often grow concerned when considering perceived competing interests of government and their impact on topics of interest to them. The realm of healthcare is no different. Some people feel that local, state, and federal policies and legislation can be either […]
Explain the ways in which trends within Medicare, Medicaid, and third-party payers affect working capital and the cost elements associated with the revenue cycle
Reflective Journal: Working Capital Your expertise in healthcare finance has attracted the attention of some of the newer employees in your organization. Wanting to become managers someday, they have asked you to share some of what you know in the online journal that serves as the company’s knowledge-sharing portal. Create a journal assignment in which […]
Investigate trends in the number of inpatient discharges and the amount of inpatient payments financed by Medicare from 1994 to 2012.
Health Policy Data One of the foremost concerns in health care policy today is the rising costs of care. Acumen works on several projects that aim to develop and evaluate payment policy reforms with the ultimate goal of lowering health care costs. As a first step for this kind of work, we must understand the […]
Compare and contrast each of the three questions related to Managed Care Organizations, Medicare, and Medicaid with one another and explain how they were similar and different to each other.
Assignment: Complete ALL of the bullet points below: Compare and contrast each of the three questions related to Managed Care Organizations, Medicare, and Medicaid with one another and explain how they were similar and different to each other. Managed care organizations emphasize physicians’ responsibilities to control patient access to expensive hospitalization and specialty care, a […]
Discuss the impact of health care reform initiatives on Medicare or Medicaid.
Watch the following video in preparation for this assignment: Life: Hindsight 101 (Developer). (2017, July 1). Medicare vs Medicaid: Why you need to know the difference. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_qrk4XLZM0 Use what you learned from the video, the module’s required readings, and your own research to answer the following questions in your paper. Distinguish between Medicare […]
Explain why all people living in poverty do not qualify for Medicaid coverage under current health care system.
• Understand the history of Medicare and Medicaid enactment and how both have evolved in the United States since their enactment under the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson. • Discuss the changes in Medicare and Medicaid coverage since the implementation of the ACA. • Explain why all people living in poverty do not qualify for […]
Discuss the benefits of Medicare for All in the United States.
This is a paper discussing the benefits of Medicare for All in the United States. This paper follows the same format as any normal research paper. First, there is an opening paragraph that introduces the topic with a hook sentence and a thesis statement. The thesis statement is an important part to the paper, so […]