Policy Summary The United States’ 2008 presidential election featured several crucial topics, including health care reform, which is still a priority for American society and Congress members. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was approved by Congress and enacted into law in 2010 (Silberman, 2020). Currently, it is...
Legal and Ethical Considerations As an attorney, when a doctor considers discontinuing care for a patient, I must carefully assess the doctor’s legal and ethical duties to the patient, as well as the potential consequences for the patient’s health. It is critical for me to ensure that the physician understands...
Introduction Bill S.801 aims to conduct research and improve access to services for people with long-term COVID-19. This legislation is part of the healthcare public policy and seeks to improve the quality of countering the Coronavirus. Considering that the government plans for 2023 to end the state of emergency associated...
Health policy is a set of laws, regulations, and other initiatives enacted by governments to address public health issues. Health policy is intended to improve the quality of life and health of a population by ensuring access to high-quality healthcare and preventive care, while also promoting healthy habits. One example...
Introduction The American Rescue Plan Act (ARP) pushed states to broaden Medicaid services. Henceforth, the Medicaid program was expanded under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2014, and since then, there have been effects. For instance, increased insurance coverage, boosted morale, and reduced healthcare costs were the notable outcomes (Guth...
The Affordable Care Act was introduced to increase coverage for individuals with health insurance and to manage their health coverage. The Care Act allowed many people affordable health care because the program contained many benefits. Among the many initiatives developed under the act was the management of penalties and premiums...
The CHIP (Children’s Health Insurance Program) has linked with Medicare and Medicaid to establish a strong foundation for assigning health coverage. This healthcare coverage can account for youngsters in underprivileged-income homes. Healthcare costs in the US are a problem as Americans spend a huge amount of money on healthcare yearly,...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the comprehensive medical reform legislation enacted in March 2010. This law was to enable the provision of cheaper health insurance for more people. In particular, (About the Affordable Care Act, n.d.). However, it has not lived up to its promise because the cost has...
Florida is one of the states in the US that have marijuana-related legislation. The state first passed the law in the Compassionate Medical Cannabis Act of 2014 CS for SB 1030 (2014) in 2014(Report state medical cannabis laws, n.d). In 2016, Florida voters approved a constitutional amendment that allowed for...
Regulation of the medical field is the factor that constantly creates problems for any country: authoritarian and democratic, capitalist and socialist. The existence and absence of a positive duty of government to guarantee medical care has its supporters and opponents in all political systems. Developed European countries are examples of...
Introduction There used to be a time when no one would consider legalizing marijuana, but that time has passed. Cannabis Sativa, or marijuana, has a long history that can be traced back centuries, with the plant being grown in different locations worldwide. It contains the chemical Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which leads...
Introduction The case of Kitty Genovese has remained in the public consciousness for over half a century, and its impact can still be felt in modern-day discussions on bystander intervention. The case has been studied in numerous academic and psychological studies, and it has been referenced in popular culture as...
Introduction The U.S. is one of the developed countries with advanced healthcare systems. Consequently, the country has formulated legislation that ensures all Americans have access to medical care. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was a hallmark for the provision of healthcare services to Americans regardless of their financial status. Various...
Introduction Healthcare organizations and professionals have a responsibility to ensure that patients’ confidentiality is properly safeguarded. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is one of the legislations that has been established to ensure that confidentiality is maintained in the healthcare sector. HIPAA has played a significant role in...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has improved the lives of millions of Americans by providing access to affordable health insurance. Many of these individuals did not have work or had occupations that paid little. Some people were unable to work due to health reasons or personal commitments. However, the proposed...
Introduction San Joaquin County Probation Department Juvenile Detention Services provides a place where youth may be held while waiting to come before a judge of the Juvenile Court. It is divided into Community Field Services and Juvenile Hall/Camp and collaborates with more than 50 public agencies and community-based organizations (CBOs)...
Introduction The No Surprises Act, enacted by Congress at the end of 2020, gives considerable safeguards to most US citizens with private insurance on health coverage. For example, due to the surging menace of patients incurring surprise medical expenses unintentionally obtained from out-of-network hospitals, physicians, and others, there was a...
Introduction The formation of an Essential Health Benefit (EHB) package that covers EHBs (as determined by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (the Secretary)) is mandated under the Health Care Law. The law mandates that EHBs include at least the following 10 main categories and are...
Identification of the Specific Measure The National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) of the Joint Commission entail one of the key methods through which the organization ensures safety in a healthcare setting. These goals establish standards that serve as prerequisites for medical personnel to follow (Lawati et al., 2018). Besides forming...
Introduction The problem of mental health and drug therapy is one of the acute problems in the United States. During the last decades, there has been a gradual increase in the number of people with mental illnesses (Ijadi-Maghsoodi et al., 2018). The situation worsened during the past two years, as...
Introduction The H.R.3755 – Women’s Health Protection Act of 2021 bill attempts to protect women’s reproductive health by letting U.S. women freely determine whether to continue or end pregnancy via abortion. The issue of abortion-specific restrictions is common in the United States. According to a recent report by the Centers...
The Policy Title: Relating to abortion, including abortions after detection of an unborn child’s heartbeat; authorizing a private civil right of action. Number: Texas Senate Bill 8 Some Sponsors: Sen. Bryan Hughes, Sen. Paul Bettencourt, Sen. Brian Birdwell, Sen. Dawn Buckingham Analysis Senate Bill 8 focuses on analyzing the issue...
Introduction The introduction of legislative acts is of great importance, as it can significantly improve the quality of healthcare and increase the level of accessibility of medical services for the population. One such important initiative was the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which was adopted in 2010 and contributed to the...
Introduction Reforms form an intrinsic part of a healthcare system and that is why the sector is continually dynamic in its practices and operations. Substantially, the stakeholders in healthcare are impacted by the changes when they occur. By the fact that well-being of every individual is important to a national...
Introduction While labor is a contractual relationship between employers and their employees, the government intervenes to ensure that the employee’s rights are not violated. The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) is one of the many pieces of legislation that provide for employer obligation. Accidents and family issues...
Human trafficking is a critical global problem that requires special attention. Hence, this is especially true of legislation and reporting cases of this kind of violation of the law. The danger of human trafficking is that it is a violation of basic human rights due to the fact that its...
Initial health checks, proper food and water access, appropriate sanitation facilities and requirements, staff training, and unannounced inspections to ensure compliance with new regulations are all included in House Bill 3239. The bill’s main goal is to help vulnerable people like the elderly, pregnant women, and children get medical treatment....
Introduction The liberalization of marijuana usage and distribution at the state level has been evolving in the past five decades despite its prohibition at the federal level. In the 1970s, states passed several decriminalization policies, while in the 1990s, laws legalizing patient medical access to marijuana started to get adopted...
The healthcare sector in the United States is continuously being shaped by a variety of laws and regulations. The newly proposed legislation entitled Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Services Workers Act (S. 4182) mandates healthcare organizations have worker protection policies, including training for staff members in preventing...
The article “Patients with do-not-resuscitate orders receive less care” was published in Spectrum News on December 6, 2021. The article highlights the results of a study of the relationship between Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) labeling in geriatric patients and the actual care they receive. Griffey points out that patients receive much less...
The Patient Safety Improvement Act of 2020 (SB 3380) was introduced in the United States Senate on March 3, 2020, by Senators Patty Murray (D-WA) and Lamar Alexander (R-TN). The Patient Safety Improvement Act of 2020 requires the Department of Health and Human Services to take actions related to healthcare-associated...
The HIPAA is a federal statute that mandated the development of national standards to prevent critical patient health data from being revealed without the patient’s knowledge or permission. Individuals’ rights to know and regulate the use of their health information are likewise spelled out in the Privacy Rule’s criteria. Patients...
Background of the Legislation President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law in 2010 facilitate access to healthcare for all Americans. The act was formulated to increase uninsured Americans’ access to quality insurance coverage at a reasonable cost. Significant reforms in the law included expanding Medicare eligibility and...
The adoption of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has significantly impacted the healthcare system of the United States. In 2010, this policy was issued to facilitate the population’s access and availability of medical services and insurance (Gaffney & McCormick, 2017). It entirely concerned the nation because it evoked a series...
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and its modifications make up the coordinated healthcare reform law. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) focuses on health insurance coverage, treatment expenditures, and preventative care. In 2010, when the legislation was implemented, about 50 million Americans lacked health insurance (Kominski et al.,...
Executive Summary The International Pandemic Preparedness and COVID-19 Response Act of 2021 is a new bill in the Senate, currently at the committee’s level. The Act purposes of making America a global leader in leading the world to prepare for and manage pandemics ease. Factors that will promote the bill’s...
Theoretical Foundation of Portugal’s Decision to Decriminalize Drugs Portugal’s decision to decriminalize drugs best fits with the rehabilitation theory. According to the source, Portugal significantly moved from incarceration to the use of medical professionals to help combat drug abuse during its zenith. The country’s policy hinged on three primary pillars....
Introduction Congress passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, in 1996 to assist both health coverage and privacy for patients. The need for confidentiality was realized when increasingly larger and additional health information was recorded and exchanged electronically. Previous to HIPAA, there were precious few...
Abstract The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was an ambitious program meant to ensure that every American legal resident can have access to quality healthcare services irrespective of their social status. For a long time, the country had been struggling to enact a policy that would lower the cost...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandates that the majority of insurance policies, even those offered on the Health Insurance Marketplace, include a number of preventive care at zero expense to enrollees. These services encompass examinations, patient counseling, vaccines, and various health tests. All healthcare insurance policies that comply with the...
Introduction The Affordable Care Act was introduced by the Obama administration to address the inequality of healthcare access in the American healthcare system. Before the law was enacted, uninsured persons in the US received approximately 50% of the healthcare that individuals who had insurance did in the whole year. Today,...
The implementation or amendment of any Act begins as a bill. A bill entails a proposed law that contains amendments to legislation. After its formulation, the bill passes through the legislative processes until it becomes law. This paper seeks to evaluate and analyze how the Bill no. S3056A affects nurse...
Summary The recent ruling that the Supreme Court issued in regard to Roe v. Wade has affected the entire country, leaving women deprived of one of their basic rights. The court decision in question implied that the right to abortion should not be provided to all women on a countywide...
An essential purpose of Title VII was to protect workers from retribution for complaining about workplace discrimination and ostracism. Cases reporting similar infractions have been expected, but one stood out (Griffin & Van Oort, 2013). The paper looks at the case of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center vs....
A healthcare compliance program is recognized to entail a continuous process that adheres to legal, professional, and ethical standards that are applicable to healthcare providers and organizations. Every type of healthcare provider and organization is affected by healthcare compliance. Healthcare organizations should establish procedures, processes, and policies as a part...
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) passage is one of the most remarkable events of Barack Obama’s presidency. The regulation changed how Americans select and use their health insurance. PPACA also helped the impoverished get access to basic healthcare services. The bill enforced Medicaid providence, and today most...
Introduction The Affordable Care Act (ACA), known as Obamacare, was signed into law in the United States in 2010 to provide better health insurance coverage for Americans and reduce the overall cost of health care (Courtemanche et al., 2018). The reform required all Americans to buy health insurance and, in...
Introduction Current regulations are out of date, have numerous levels of control, and are inconsistent, necessitating public health law reform. Significant health threats and difficulties may require new legal systems, and governments may lack the authority to perform their public health obligations successfully. Moreover, existing legislation may not adequately balance...
Paying for nursing services under the Medicare Act has gone through many changes from the 1960s to the 2020s. The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 was an interesting milestone in the history of medical coverage of services provided by non-physicians. Interestingly, since 1997 nurses can independently make billing immediately after...
If a patient is hurt directly due to mistakes made during treatment, a medical practitioner may be held accountable for medical malpractice and be susceptible to legal action. Individuals who experience these injuries as a direct result of medical negligence can hold the practitioners liable for such injuries under the...
The Mine Health and Safety Act of 1996 indicates that records cited in sections 12, 13, and 14 of the act must be retained by employers until the moment a mine is closed. Part 3 of Section 12 includes records of occupational hygiene measurements. These documents are vital for the...
Introduction The state has a number of obligations to citizens, predetermined by the need to realize human rights. However, due to the fact that the conditions can be interpreted in different ways, there is an ambiguous characterization, for example, of health care. How has health care and coverage changed over...
Introduction The Canterbury vs. Spence case law is a legal case that was decided in the United States in 1971. The case revolved around a doctor who a patient sued for negligence. The patient, Mr. Canterbury, had been injured in a car accident and had seen Dr. Spence for treatment....
If an accident occurs, employers must initiate an investigation of the case. An appropriate inquiry must be made, and the appointed inspector of the mine must prepare a written report according to the standards. The inspector may be designated for an inquiry after any accident involving severe injury. In addition,...
Obtaining an advanced directive form from the internet was not very hard. Yet, it requires a certain tech- and internet-savviness, which is not always the characteristic of the elderly population. I believe this is important for adults of any age as there are cases when accidents threaten their lives and...
The lack of access to death with dignity in South Dakota led to the introduction of the Death with Dignity Act which is a Bill that allows terminally ill patients to make decisions over their deaths. However, several stakeholders are affected by this law either positively or negatively. The main...
Introduction Sarah Palin is famous for implementing the term “death panel” in response to federal health care legislation that covers uninsured people in the U.S. Palin claimed that the government would create a death panel of bureaucrats to decide whether some people were worthy of medical services. She cited her...
Introduction Healthcare is a massive industry regulated with specific laws for each aspect of the profession in today’s society. However, Moore and Sarah note that there were no federal laws concerning patient privacy in the healthcare setting before 1966 in the United States. As a result, Congress enacted the Health...
Introduction The opioid epidemic is a severe problem affecting individuals of diverse populations nationwide; thus, state boards created voluntary guidelines to regulate treating acute and chronic non-cancer pain. In Texas, the Administrative Code contains chapters for medical workers to use in their decision-making (Texas Office of The Secretary of State,...
Healthcare fraud is a serious and dangerous crime compared to the blue-collar crime. The threat of this type of law violation is measured in terms of health damage and financial losses. Healthcare swindling is practiced by healthcare providers, patients, and other people. Medical fraud mostly involves falsified reporting of medical...
House Bill 96 SL2021-110 is a law that allows injectable drugs to be sold to pharmacists. The North Carolina General Assembly is dedicated to improving access to health care and better health for its citizens. Therefore, the North Carolina General Assembly is now enacting this law, taking into account various...
Major Categories of Health Care Fraud and Abuse As in many other areas, in healthcare, there is a problem of fraud and abuse, which can contribute to a significant level of risk for patients and organizations. Research indicates that “the Federal Bureau of Investigation estimates that fraudulent billing constitutes 3%...
Legality of Abortions Abortions are legal in all the U.S., and every state has at least one abortion clinic. However, some states have policies and regulations limiting whether, when and under what conditions an abortion can be performed. Such states laws can require the involvement of a licensed physician (or...
Million people worldwide require transplantation of organs that can save them from death. The official medical system promotes volunteer donations of organs and exploits the bodies of the deceased. Patients are included in waiting lists and have to wait for operations for a long time; consequently, sometimes their organs turn...
Introduction The case at issue revolves around the events of 2001 when two defendants, Celestine Okwilagwe and Loveth Isidaehomen, being a husband and wife, set up a business to provide home care for older adults. Their organization was named Elder Care Home Health Services, LLC and was in demand in...
The Problem The shortage of donor organ supply is a persistent global public health problem. In this case, the demand for body parts used for transplants usually surpasses the supply in the market. Recent statistics show that 106,504 candidates are on the waiting list for various organs in the United...
Regulation Description Medicare Access and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) is the act that significantly changed the healthcare system of the United States. The act is primarily related to reimbursing medical providers. MACRA has several purposes connected with the Medicare and Children’s Health Insurance programs...
