Medicare was initiated in 1966 to provide healthcare coverage to senior citizens who were otherwise uninsured. It has often been said that the costs of providing Medicare coverage has far exceeded the funding available to support this program and thus the whole system is in crisis. However this may not actually be true. Even though it is true that Medicare costs have exceeded government's initial estimates but so have the income level of Americans over the years which helps in raising the funding sources significantly. We must understand that Americans need to contribute to Medicare payments during their working years and with higher income, more money goes into Medicare funds which, helps in meeting the rising costs of this program. Medicare is primarily funded by the payments made by citizens during their working years. While still working, Americans...
Taxpayers' money is thus the primary funding source for Medicare. Many people think that Medicare is an insurance program and not a welfare program. I believe this perception is correct because in certain conditions, beneficiaries are also required to pay co-payments and premiums. Secondly it is their own money which is now being paid to them after retirement so this is insurance and not exactly a free welfare program.
History The campaign for quality improvement dates back to nineteenth-century obstetrician, Ignaz Semmelweis’s time; Semmelweiz campaigned for the significance of healthcare providers washing their hands prior to caring for patients. Furthermore, legendary British nurse, Florence Nightingale, determined the link between high mortality rates among army hospital inpatients and inferior living conditions. Surgeon Ernest Codman initiated hospital standards development, adopting and stressing the significance of healthcare outcome assessment approaches (Colton, 2000). Former
Vietnamization of the Vietnam War More than 25 years after the last helicopter lifted from the United States embassy in Saigon, the Vietnam War continues to cast a shadow on American history. Whether the preservation of South Vietnam was worth the human and financial costs to both the Americans and Vietnamese continues to be the subject of contentious debate. The chaotic withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1975 was a blow to the
Dallek used traditional methods of research and structure making his book a true "history" from a collegiate-academic point-of-view. But this does not invalidate Caro's work. The problem, then, in looking at both of these books to be authorities is to figure out if it really matters if Caro's lack of credentials and traditional (meaning library) method of information gathering actually denote a lesser effect on the overall impact of
Poverty and Inequality Among Children Studies show that child poverty has been increasing at an alarming rate in the last decade. In 1994, 15.3 million children, or 21.8% of all Americans, were poor (Lichter 1997) and that, although children constituted only 26.7% of the population, 40.1% of all poor persons in the U.S. were children (U.S. Bureau of Census 1996 as qtd in Lichter). These rising poverty rates are used by
A favorite target for conspiracists today as well as in the past, a group of European intellectuals created the Order of the Illuminati in May 1776, in Bavaria, Germany, under the leadership of Adam Weishaupt (Atkins, 2002). In this regard, Stewart (2002) reports that, "The 'great' conspiracy organized in the last half of the eighteenth century through the efforts of a number of secret societies that were striving for
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