The movie, the Doctor revolves around Dr Jack McKee, a character played by William Hurt who is a successful head surgeon at a renowned hospital. The doctor is a self-centered, egocentric person who is very busy in his professional life and hardly spends time with his sons and wife. He is not very emotionally attached to his wife nor does he cares about his patients and always humiliates and treats them unprofessionally. He is a self-sufficient and insensitive person who does not have emotional attachment with his patients. He jokes even when he is doing a surgery and always tries to embarrass his patients. He never realizes his arrogance until one day he coughed blood and has been diagnosed with throat cancer. He then realizes the humiliation …show more content…
As Dr JacK has a high need of power and achievement but after his cancer diagnosis, his needs changes to intimacy and affiliation. Our current healthcare system is an example where the patients do not have the freedom to choose their own healthcare to get the best treatment they can afford. In this country we want a good affordable health care for every one and not just for few people. It is the right of every American to be treated equally and get their basic rights. People who do not want to get insured are being forced to get it otherwise they have to pay the penalty. Getting insurance from job companies is also now much more expensive then it was before. People have to change their medical practitioners just because the new insurance policies are not letting them to be with their previous doctors. Accoroding to the study by the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) claims that the current healthcare system can cause a great reduction in jobs and found that the employer mandate alone can cause the loss of 1.6 million jobs and most of them are from small businesses and insurance premiums have also increased in 2013 as compared to 2012. (Eckerly Susan, 2009).The republicans recently published a document, “Obamacare: A budget-busting, job killing health care law,” which also cites various sources and claims that affordable care act is a job killer.(Boehner, Cantor, Camp, Kline, Ryan, & Upton, 2011). NFIB manager, Kevin Kuhlman said, “Rising costs and increased requirements and taxes in the healthcare law are leading to increased costs. With major insurance provisions beginning January 1, 2014, small business owners can expect further increased costs.” (Eckerly Susan, 2009).Thus our current healthcare system is not a citizen supportive system. It needs to be planned in a way that everyone can get
You understand that database technology can dramatically improve your ability to analyze information, compared to spreadsheet technology, and assist you in developing your strategic plans for the cafe. To help you familiarize yourself with databases and their associated business value you need to create a report detailing the basics of databases and why they are better for running a business than spreadsheet applications. Be sure to provide a detailed explanation of relational databases along with their associated business advantages.
At last, the law gave new alternatives and motivating forces to help states rebalance their Medicaid long haul mind programs for group based administrations and backings as opposed to institutional care. All in all, these arrangements have quickened Medicaid advancement effectively in progress in numerous states. Also improved with the ACA besides Medicaid, is Medicare. The Affordable Care Act incorporates a progression of Medicare changes that will create billions of dollars in reserve funds for Medicare and fortify the care Medicare recipients get. The new law secures ensured benefits for all Medicare recipients, and gives new advantages and administrations to seniors on Medicare that will help keep seniors solid. The law likewise incorporates arrangements that will enhance the nature of care, create and advance new models of care conveyance, suitably value administrations, modernize our wellbeing framework, and battle waste, extortion, and mishandle. A big topic that is affected from ACA is businesses. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act -- otherwise known as Obamacare -- is putting such a small dent in the profits of U.S. companies that many refer to its impact as 'not material' or 'not significant. Even after a provision went into effect this year requiring companies with 50 or more full-time workers to provide coverage, and after more workers are choosing to enroll in existing company coverage because of another requirement that all Americans get
According to the film, primary care physicians are so important because they are supposed to make sure that patients do not get sick and that they have the tools to maintain health. However, as Dr. Martin made so clear in each appearance in the film, many primary care physicians do not have the luxury of affording the sufficient amount of
It has been six years since the Affordable Care Act has been implemented into the United States healthcare system. As the pieces and provisions of this monumental federal statute become understood and executed, it is transforming the demand for care. Prior to the ACA, a significant number of Americans were marginalized and unable to obtain coverage. This system was faced increasing healthcare costs, placing greater financial strain to everyday Americans, businesses, and public health insurance systems. The ACA did not only help ensure health coverage for all (almost
It was stated earlier in this paper that big businesses would benefit from this law; however, the exact opposite is true for small businesses. Businesses will be forced to provide healthcare for their employees or pay a fine, something they may not be able to afford. This may result in employees’ hours being cut or even the termination of the employee (“ObamaCare”).
Rising health insurance premiums have made healthcare unaffordable in the United States. Health insurance premiums in this country have undergone a steady rise over the past few years while incomes have remained the same. More than 50% of individuals with low incomes holding private insurance in the United States are unable to afford their healthcare costs (Collins, Gunja, Doty & Buetel, 2015). In addition, costs related to healthcare are equally unaffordable to 25% of working-age individuals who hold private health insurance policies (Collins et al., 2015). According to the Kaiser Family Foundation/Health Research and Educational Trust (Kaiser/HRET) survey on employer health benefits, employer-sponsored health insurance plans have also had moderate rises in premiums in 2013 for both individuals and family coverage (Claxton et al., 2013). While
Furthermore, adversaries complain that the complexity of Obamacare’s employer mandate have forced small businesses to cut hours, wages and jobs ("Obamacare."). In California, over seventy percent of the 104,000 physicians are refusing to participate in Obamacare, [because] practices stand to lose millions of dollars under the state’s bargain basement insurances rates. (Crocker 97) “Although, some economists believe the high costs of employee health insurance place US companies at a "competitive disadvantage in the international marketplace," according to the Business Coalition for Single-Payer Healthcare, a right to healthcare under a single-payer-system could reduce employer labor costs by 10-12%” (“Obamacare.”). In addition, the law reduces health care costs by rewarding doctors, hospitals and other providers that deliver high quality care and making investments to fund research
In the current U.S. system the free market prevails and companies, in this case, major insurance providers “compete” for business. This competitive business approach should in theory drive costs down. For some reason, however, an argument can be made that it has produced the opposite result in profiteering. The nation’s largest insurer, UnitedHealth, boasted over a 10 percent revenue increase in 2013 according to Forbes (2013). Health insurance affordability contributes to the disparity in access to health care, as evidenced by the fact that there are millions that are still uncovered. A greater majority of certain minorities lack both health insurance and the financial resource to seek out either health care or insurance. While insurance companies reap huge profits the percent of private sector companies offering health insurance has dropped to less than 50 percent (Kaiser, 2013). There is decidedly a lack of coordination of care for this at risk population as well, since treatment is rendered sporadically and with continuously changing providers. The last major challenge is that of improving the quality of health care. According to a 2010 report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG), an estimated 13.5 percent of Medicare beneficiaries experienced adverse events during their hospital stay and an additional 13.5 percent experienced a temporary
The U.S. health care system faces challenges that indicate that the people urgently need to be reform. Attention has rightly focused on the approximately 46 million Americans who are uninsured, and on the many insured Americans who face rapid increases in premiums and out-of-pocket costs. As Congress and the Obama administration consider ways to invest new funds to reduce the number of Americans without insurance coverage, we must simultaneously address shortfalls in the quality and efficiency of care that lead to higher costs and to poor health outcomes. To do otherwise casts doubt on the feasibility and sustainability of coverage expansions and also ensures that our current health care system will continue to have large gaps even for those with access to insurance coverage.
In the last four years, the United States has implemented a new reform in our medical system called the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Its goal is to reform the health care system, by providing Americans with a more affordable health insurance policy. It also tries to compress the growth of healthcare spending in the United States. The ACA offers Americans better health coverage because of the widespread reforms that are included. These reforms will expand our healthcare coverage, hold insurance companies liable, lower health care costs, guarantee more choice for patients, and improve the quality of healthcare for all Americans (Markette, 2011, p. 12). As the law has passed, there have been many people affected. For example, the craft supply
Ever since the Affordable Care Act has been implemented it has been described as something that will help the economy. More people with health insurance, more jobs, and a lower national debt were a few things described as results of Obamacare. Unfortunately, the exact opposite has occurred. For starters, the Affordable Care Act is killing full-time jobs. The Affordable Care Act is requiring businesses to provide all employees with health insurance if there is at least fifty
William (Willy) Loman, age 63, is a traveling salesman from Brooklyn, New York. He is an insecure, mercurial man with powerful desire for success. Willy seems to have great potential and fine life goals, but they were the factors that caused disaster. As a child, he claimed that he “faced significant emotional trauma.” Willy was abandoned by his own father, who left him with practically nothing. Hence, Willy feels compelled to put his owns sons, especially Biff, on the perfect path in life. He desires to be present for his sons, and he want to give them what he didn’t have as a child. His fear of abandonment drives him to establish unrealistic expectations for his sons and himself, who convinces himself that he is capable of achieving those
The movie “The Doctor” takes an intimate look at the life of a surgeon who is immensely detached from his patients and often acts callously towards his patients and even his family. The arrogance and heartlessness that are seen in the beginning of the movie slowly become subdued when Jack McKee finds out that he has a malignant tumor. The diagnosis of the life-threatening tumor forces Jack to reevaluate his life and in turn allows Jack to see life from the perspective of a patient. The differences in McKee’s character are abundantly evident but one of the best examples of how much he truly changes are how starkly different the opening scene in the surgery suite is as compared to the final scene in the surgery suite. When the movie opens
The term ‘coaching philosophy’ means the principles which shape the coach’s behaviour and the way in which they coach their athlete/s within the coaching environment. The principles within a coaching philosophy may be internal to the coach based on their own beliefs or external, these are principles that are set by participant and employers or organisations. A coach’s morals, values and virtues can play a large part in their coaching philosophy. A coach’s philosophy may be kept as a written record this is known as a philosophy statement. In order to ensure that the coaching environment is positive for both the coach and participant it is important to ensure there are no mismatches between the coach’s philosophy and the expectations of the individual
Throughout history, many individuals would have never thought a horrific war would occur, which was World War 1 (The Great War). Many men was picked to fight during this war, they thought that it was going to be an easy journey. However it did not end up going in the right direction, so it took a left turn based on seeing fellow soldiers die before your eyes, the weather was always wet and muddy, and multiple firearms always pointing at each other. Before the men began their journey into booby-traps of the war, many individuals encouraged them that fighting in the war was fun. However, it was far from fun: many soldiers fought in trenches, many became shell shock, and many saw the world in a much more horrific view when returning back home.