Organizational Responsibility and Current Health Care Issues
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Organizational Responsibility and Current Health Care Issues
In the news today there are many health care issues and situations that need our attention. One such issue is all the indigent people without health care insurance, this is a large group of people and it stretches over many different groups of people; from the elderly to the young, from the Caucasian to the Hispanic and from the homeless and jobless to the working people. Since this is such a large topic the following will be about uninsured children in Minnesota, this is an important group since children cannot get their own insurance they need an adults help. The following will give an overview of the situation and how it affects health care organizations, how these organizations can influence what happens, resources that can prevent the situation and how change and what change can prevent the situation in the future.
Health Care News Situation
Because children cannot help it if they do not have coverage it is up to the parents to make sure that their children have the health care they need. Children who are uninsured are more than three times as less likely to have seen a doctor in the last year, and have a higher incidence of preventable disease than insured children (Johnson, 2007). There are many people in the United States that do not have insurance or very little if they have any at all. This is no different in Minnesota, where children make up a large population of uninsured. There are roughly 1.4 million children in MN; and about nine percent have no insurance coverage. According to the U.S. Department of Health on average in 2005, 21 percent of children in the U.S. were uninsured. Because children depend on their parents or guardians to provide them with health care and insurance, it is difficult for children to know and understand the importance of having health care coverage. There are programs available for children without insurance to receive coverage it is up to the parents to find...
In the news today there are many health care issues and situations that need our attention. One such issue is all the indigent people without health care insurance, this is a large group of people and it stretches over many different groups of people; from the elderly to the young, from the Caucasian to the Hispanic and from the homeless and jobless to the working people. Since this is such a large topic the following will be about uninsured children in Minnesota, this is an important group since children cannot get their own insurance they need an adults help. The following will give an overview of the situation and how it affects health care organizations, how these organizations can influence what happens, resources that can prevent the situation and how change and what change can prevent the situation in the future.
Health Care News Situation
Because children cannot help it if they do not have coverage it is up to the parents to make sure that their children have the health care they need. Children who are uninsured are more than three times as less likely to have seen a doctor in the last year, and have a higher incidence of preventable disease than insured children (Johnson, 2007). There are many people in the United States that do not have insurance or very little if they have any at all. This is no different in Minnesota, where children make up a large population of uninsured. There are roughly 1.4 million children in MN; and about nine percent have no insurance coverage. According to the U.S. Department of Health on average in 2005, 21 percent of children in the U.S. were uninsured. Because children depend on their parents or guardians to provide them with health care and insurance, it is difficult for children to know and understand the importance of having health care coverage. There are programs available for children without insurance to receive coverage it is up to the parents to find...