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Health care , or healthcare , is the prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well being through the services offered by the medical, nursing, and allied health professions. Health care embraces all the goods and services designed to promote health, including “preventive, curative and palliative interventions, whether directed to individuals or to populations”. The organised provision of such services may constitute a health care system. This can include specific governmental organizations such as, in the UK, the National Health Service or a cooperation across the National Health Service and Social Services as in Shared Care. Before the term "health care" became popular, English-speakers referred to medicine or to the health sector and spoke of the treatment and prevention of illness and disease.
In most developed countries and many developing countries health care is provided to everyone regardless of their ability to pay. The National Health Service, established in 1948 by Clement Atlee's Labour government in the United Kingdom, were the world's first universal health care system provided by government and paid for from general taxation. Alternatively, compulsory government funded health insurance with nominal fees can be provided, as in Italy. Other examples are Medicare in Australia, established in the 1970s by the Labor government, and by the same name Medicare was established in Canada between 1966 and 1984. Universal health care contrasts to the systems like health care in the United States or South Africa, though South Africa is one of the many countries attempting health care reform. The United States is the only wealthy, industrialized nation that does not provide universal health care.
aw1735
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"Other than being a doctor what are the other positions in today's healthcare industry that post good pay and revnue throughout the years. I am trying to decide a course of action or employment in the healthcare field and trying to find information on incomes related to such field. Anyone have any ideas??? I'm lost!!"
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Retired-Not Larry replied:
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gikkichunks replied:
"If you are business saavy you may consider being on the administrative side of healthcare. Physicians are required to bill with special codes called CPT-4 codes that describe services that they provide to patients. There are also codes to describe every diagnosis. In order for the physicians to obtain payment for services these codes must be submitted in a timely fashion to insurance companies and they must be within the scope of usual practices. Insurance companies also deny payment to the physicians more often than not and they need people to fight for their money. Administrators allow physicians to concentrate of helping patients without the nagging concern of redtape and paperwork.There are also budgeting, managerial and operational issues in healthcare offices or other settings that are handled by these professionals. You may consider obtaining a masters in heatlh administration. Please refer to."
phound
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"If healthcare gets revamped will I get CUT IN PAY? I am a X-ray tech. When everybody can afford healthcare, will I loose money?I am confused if revamping healthcare is bad or good for me. I am for everybody getting great healthcare, but not for a pay cut that I worked hard for!"
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rustoria617 replied:
"Not to worry! With universal health care, you'll be in more demand than ever. You may see less take home pay as your taxes will go way up to pay for it. Check out the income tax rate in Canada.Oh, probably not as your pay will go up to. Might break even that way."
knicname replied:
"First, I doubt that healthcare will become universal.Second, I see no reason why you as a X-ray technician should lose pay...ompare it to salaries in France & other places where they have universal health care."
Carole replied:
"Why would your pay be cut as long as xrays are still performed as long as someone pays for the xrays? Why do you think having people who cannot afford healthcare increases your present pay? I realize my answer is just more questions, but this is the only way I know to answer your question."
girl_on_the_couch_inak replied:
"you.ll be dead by then"
Sarah-Claire replied:
"Let's just hope this never happens. People work hard to be able to get health insurance, and now the hard-working will not only support ourselves, but the uninsured as well. There are already government programs suited for those with low-incomes or those who simply cannot afford insurance. I mean, my sister is a WAITRESS and has health insurance. It really isn't that hard to get. A pay cut is what you are worried about? If universal healthcare becomes the norm, then that won't be the only thing to worry about!!!!!!"
gxl replied:
"Nah! There is no logic in universal healthcare leading to a pay cut for a xray technician.Unless you mean universal healthcare --->medical benefits for patients ---->lower salaries for medical workers. If so, no worries, increased medical benefits will just mean a switch to increase goverment tax. Your tax money will make a roundabout back to you. Its all economics."
Lab Assistant Beaker replied:
"Evidently the more you're needed the more you will get work. A lot of people make sacrifices to enable a fairer health system policy. There is no doubt that money gets wrongly used sometimes and people who are uninsured are paid for through tax, but that is the nature of a publicly funded system.Better that than the massive amounts of people who don't visit the doctor/hospital because they can't afford to. Something evidenced by the questions in this section."
Amy
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"My professor today mentioned that most European countries have universal healthcare. This means that everyones healthcare is provided by the state, correct? How much more money do people pay in taxes in Europe than in the U.S.? It would have to be more since their healthcare is covered, right?"
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Babe replied:
"Europe is ate up in taxes. England has the worse tax burden on the planet. Their health care is mediocre at best. Our may not be cheap, but its the best in the world, and nobody comes close."
john_mcd_77 replied:
"It varies greatly from country to country. The higher taxes are reflected in things like lower home ownership and less job availability.People who advocate a single universal program in America will often cite Europe, but they don't mention that each European country (state) has its own plans in competition with each other (and some have no universal coverage), that they have varying degrees of success, and that in some cases the government straight up decides who is 'unfit' for medical care (UK is real bad about this).If we have 40 million uninsured now and implemented a "universal" system like the English that denies treatment to smokers and overweight people, we would end up with about 135 million uninsured.France has a really good system in that they have good coverage and health stats without spending too much money per person. Again, the part they won't tell you is that they achieved this by virtually eliminating lawsuits against doctors. By JUST fixing that legal liability in America, we would have gone a long way to improving the cost/return ration of American health-care without spending a penny."
clambacke replied:
"Actually, Germany for instance pays $2700 per person per year, where here in the USA it cost $6800. Universal health care is cheaper, because people get preventive care, which costs much less then getting really sick. I wish, people would get better info, before they make up their mind."
Dazedandconfused replied:
"I am English and now live in California. Like most people I thought that there was a huge tax burden in Britain, but after coming here I now think that's not the case.We pay two forms of tax from our wages:Income tax and National insurance. Your income tax is tax like everywhere else, national insurance pays for your pension and healthcare. I have lived in England all my life up till now and I will fiercely defend our healthcare system, the NHS (national health service). In thanks largely to the effort of our heroic doctors and nurses (and all other staff) the NHS survives....the healthcare is nothing like as bad as people make out, and there are no long waiting lists anymore (now if you're waiting more than six months for routine surgery they'll send you abroad to have it done, paid for of course). No-one pays anything for medical care and the one reason it's under stress (As a healthcare proffesional I know this from experience) is the fact that something built as a national health service is used as a world health service. People come to the UK from all over Europe to take advantage of the NHS and from all over the world. I would like to see treatment restricted to citizens/people who have paid at least 5 years national insurance contributions but at the same time I would never ever want to see anyone, citizen or not, turned away or denied medical care because of money. I'm fortunate enough to be able to afford health insurance in the US but the amount hospitals/doctors charge is disgusting and I don't really understand why people are so opposed to universal health care, can you really put a price on life?By the way income tax is 20% of anything you earn over about 5 and a half thouse pounds ($11k) and national insurance is 11% of anything you earn over 84pounds a week ($160) And people have the option of private healthcare in england too if they want to pay for it"
cdjack replied:
"It doesn't work at all. They must buy private supplemental insurance for big money, and wait for years for treatment. It sucks, just ask the common people in Europe. Don't listen to the propaganda."
Teena
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"I think that unversal healthcare would be detrimental to the advancement of human medicine. Drug companies would tirelessly to develop a breakthrough drug or a cure for a disease because they know it would be a huge payout. Would they have such a large incentive if the government would be paying them?Also, I heard that universal healthcare would result in everyone getting healthcare, but it would involve long lines. Everyone would get treated for cancer and not worry about the bill but they would have to wait 6 months for treatment.What are your thoughts?"
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Eric D replied:
"I disagree, I think that the drug companies would benifit from unversal healthcare, as instead of just giving the treatments to the "wealthy" they would now be able to give it to the poor, and get paid by government to do it. However considering this,I also believe there would be a risk of fruad in the areas of medicine as bad or "worthless" drugs would be made just so the drug companies could make even more money."
RetroBlader replied:
"Please send my congrats to the marketing departments of Big-Pharmas and HMO/PPO/etc -- clearly, their propaganda is working on SOME people....Obviously, it really depends on how you defend health. For many, it's something along the line of "live longer, live healthier, live happier". I'm not sure the mostly-private, for-profit health care system in the US today is the way to achieve those goals.1. Advancement of medicineLook at the drugs introduced over the last 10 years -- how many were "breakthrough" drugs? By far most were "me too" copies of existing drugs. Yes, there were a few new antibiotics, but that's because we created super-bugs resistant to previous antibiotics. Yes, there were a few new cancer drugs, but most of them lengthen life by weeks, not months/years (and they weren't "healthy/happy" weeks either). In short, we have more drugs which are getting more expensive, but I'm not sure we are living longer/healthier/happier.2. Waiting TimeYes, countries with socialized universal health care (like Canada or most of Europe) have waiting lists for services, but those countries often have BETTER health indices than the US. Looking at it another way, in the US you can get MRI in the middle of the night, but does that lead to people living longer, healthier and happier? People still end up with late-stage cancer that creeped up on them. People still have heart disease -- they can simply see it better. Drug and health technology companies would LOVE you to believe that getting something fast means better health, but it's too bad life often doesn't work like that.3. People actually get WORSE care in for-profit hospitalsLook at this article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in 2002 -- dialysis patients treated at private for-profit hospitals have HIGHER mortality:You say that's dialysis patients, not you? Well how about this -- there have been 38 studies comparing health outcomes in various patient populations in Canada and the US, of which 5+9 favored Canada and 2+3 favored the US:Anyway, believe what you want. The truth is, no matter what you believe, Big Pharma and private health care providers have such a strong grip on the US political system that you will not see a change any time soon....Good health to you."
Giggles replied:
"Since the drug companies became privatized, there have been far, far less cures than when it was government controlled. Drug companies only want symptom relievers, since they will be reused over and over, whereas cures are not needed once the problem is gone. No money in cures. Drug companies are more interested in Marketing. Obscene amounts go into marketing. At least thousands if not millions are spent on just pens, clocks, notepads, lunches, clipboards, and a ton of little practically useless stuff they give away for the sole purpose of having the name all around the dr. You should go in a dr's office and just look at the amount of stuff with a drug name on it. That is only a small fraction. The government should really take back the pharmaceutical industry, that would definitely lower regular health insurance prices.If universal health care is brought in, it doesn't mean you can't get regular health insurance. Considering how very little the health insurances pay out ($0.67 on a $10 charge) I highly doubt that the doctors income would be impacted negatively. I think universal health care would be a great thing. And this is coming from someone who would probably have to find a new job. You don't see the people who come in who don't have to money to get seen. People who are already sick, dying, and still getting harassed about payments. There are already tons of people who die because they just didn't have the money for a doctor. What is a couple of days wait to that?6 months is quite far fetched. I was in the military, and the same type of system ran. Health care was FREE and there were no massive wait times. The only valid complaint that I have heard is that you would not always be able to see the same doctor. Not exactly a big deal. It could very well be that some doctors could choose to take more regular health insurance patients, and then you could have one of those for your regular doctor.As atrocious as regular health insurance is, most doctors take most of them. Why? To boost the number of patients. Universal health care could work the same way. Universal health care will certainly not stop the advancement of medicine. With a little less fear involved, it may even enhance it. Besides, that sounds an awful lot like you want to believe the US is the only place in the world who has helped medicine. Nope.Would you give up your career to keep universal health care from coming? That's how strongly I support it."
Crouching Doggie replied:
"Stacy, exactly as RetroBlader put it, it's obviously very serious and "hot-button" issue for us as physicians and for patients. Universal healthcare has clear advantages and other disadvantages for the patient. The current system of medicine in the US leaves 47 million people completely without medical insurance to cover their care, this is obviously a serious problem. Going from a system (that's in shambles, quite frankly, as we have under the current conditions) to one where there is universal coverage will be logistically very difficult and if it is advanced, it'll take many, many years to get it right. It'll require a complete paradigm shift and huge change in infrastructure to advance, and as RetroBlader clearly suggested, there are very power special interest groups (namely HMOs/ Big Pharmaceutical Companies) which invariably will have strong political influence over if and how universal coverage can be effected.It's a terribly complicated issue, and regrettably there are no quick fixes in the short term."
Justin S
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"I am planning to go into nursing anyways and the Air Force would be a great source of financial aid. I was wondering if I go into the healthcare section of the Air Force if I still have basic training and boot camp etcetera and if it's a section I want to get into I very much like the idea of serving my country but I would like more details thanks for all your answers :)Well I just want to know if the basic training and everything is necessary for a nurse thats going to be working in an office I don't see why basic training would be necessary"
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camokid139 replied:
"If you have completed Basic training I beleive you may have to undergo another fitness assessmentto join. if you any questions on it, here is a good recriuter Daniel Brassingtons e-mail address:LCDT Grieger,Matthew2WG, 210SQNAAFC"
usafbrat64 replied:
"Of course you still have to undergo basic training. Although in the officer corp, it may be referred to as something else. It's not all about the physical part of it... it's also learning military bearing, history, and following orders. And, yes, as a nurse, you still have to know how to handle yourself as a military member and you have to know how to follow orders and give orders.You cannot go into the AF to train as a nurse... you must already have your nursing degree. There are chances for education and advancement if you decide to enlist and then take classes for your degree."
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