I need a positive argument  based in this discussion question. Respond to this argument in one or more of the following ways:

Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional background information, evidence or research.

Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings, synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.

Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library.

Validate an idea with your own experience and additional research.

Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.

Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.

Use references 

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While the US spends more money per capita on health care than other country with little to no change in life expectancy, the rising cost continues to be directly related to the medical treatment of disease rather than prevention.  For many chronic disease processes, acute care is synonymous to a band aid on a decubitus ulcer.  This analogy can also be applied to the governments’ current approach to the delivery of healthcare.

An enormous opportunity for economic reform exists in healthcare from the Federal, State, and Local levels of government to the individual healthcare provider.  We can effect change not just by prevention, but also by considering new and dynamic methods to improve what is clearly a privileged system that caters mostly to the “haves” not the “have not’s”.  The poorer, less educated, and disabled (usually pre-existing) without resources are likely to be repeatedly hospitalized, without insurance and with costs defrayed to the private insurance sector causing private pay to be more expensive and limited in scope.  In the United States, insurance is a privilege, but access to healthcare is a right.

Logic indicates follow-up care and access to long-term treatment will lessen the need for hospitalization and improve patient health and quality of life.  It stands to reason the primary care takers of the chronically and terminally ill also experience a negative impact on their physical well-being and are silently hidden cost secondary to lack of appropriate resources and a disease centered model of healthcare.

The Population Health Model (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), (2013) suggests one might be able to extrapolate a similar model when considering how our government and the resulting bipartisanship limits, if not completely paralyses, the effective provision and advancement of health care to our Nation’s citizens. 

In summary, it isn’t only the health-related behaviors of individuals; it is the inaccessibility to resources that limits effective change because of the political agendas and the subsequent inertia.  The resulting bureaucracy continues to facilitate the rising cost of healthcare while simultaneously precipitating the decrease in the American life-expectancy.  As practitioners, are we simply willing to accept the fact that our government is spending more money to live less years? Healthcare is a right and as such access to care is also right, so why are more people dying sooner?  The current provision of healthcare is seriously flawed. If our Nation continues to remain stagnant (bipartisan) rather than humanitarian on these issues we will continue to experience a rise in health care that is directly proportional to an unhealthier population and decreased life expectancy.  The ineffective and unequal provision of health care in this country remains a conundrum for which we seem incapable of finding a solution. 

References:

World Health Organization. (1948). Preamble to the Constitution of the World Health Organization as adopted by the International Health Conference, New York, 19-22 June, 1946; signed on 22 July 1946 by the representatives of 61 States (Official Records of the World Health Organization, no. 2, p. 100) and entered into force on 7 April 1948. Retrieved from http://www.who.int/about/definition/en/print.html

Knickman, J.R, & Kovner, A.R. (Eds). (2015). Health care delivery in the United States (4th ed.). New York, NY: Springer Publishing.

Healthcare.gov Plans – 2018 Trump Care Health Plans. Quote. First Quote Health. Com/? Campain_source.

American Nurses Association.  Health System Reform.  Retrieved March 22, 2012, from NURS://www.nursingworld.org/Main/Menu?Catagories/Policy-Advocacy/Health System Reform.

During this in-class group presentation, you will explore various populations and examine the nurse’s role promoting health in different cultures and populations. This activity is intended to provide an overview of different cultures and possible health related beliefs within these cultures. Students will be assigned a

health concern to explore. 

TOPIC: Veterans health.

              issues the client or family may encounter in our health system as     

              a result of their beliefs.

Purchase Evaluation

For this Critical Thinking assignment, imagine that you are tasked with evaluating a major purchase by your healthcare organization. You have been asked to share the process steps of your purchase evaluation with the board of directors.

For this project, the actual product you are purchasing is secondary to the steps used to evaluate the capability of your organization to afford such a purchase. However, to assist you with the constructs of this presentation, you may select a product to focus on. A recommended product may be a new MRI-machine. Be sure to highlight the time value of money as one of your considerations.

Develop a PowerPoint presentation meeting the following structural requirements. Your presentation must:

1. Be organized, using professional themes and transitions in addressing the evaluation of the purchase.
2. Consist of four slides, not including the title and reference slides (six total slides).
3. Provide in each slide detailed speakers notes—a minimum of 100 words in length. Notes must draw from, and cite, relevant reference materials.
4. Provide support for your statements with in-text citations from a minimum of four scholarly articles.
5. Two of these sources may be from the class readings, textbook, or lectures, but the others must be external.
6. Follow APA power point stardard
7. Add cited images 

Module 5 DQ 1 and DQ 2

Tutor MUST have a good command of the English language

These are two discussion questions

Your DQ1 and DQ2 posts must be at least 150 words and have at least one reference cited for each question. In-text citation, please

Tutor MUST have a good command of the English language

Sources need to be journal/scholarly articles. 

Use only articles that are published between 2015-2018 (except for your theory articles which will be older as you must cite primary sources).

No textbook or direct quotes

Please separate the two DQ with their references

Topic 5 DQ 1

Analyze the ANA’s definition of the nurse’s role in in ethics and human rights and the role of the DNP in eliminating health disparities.

Topic 5 DQ 2

Provide an evaluation of the current political climate related to health care and define how the DNP can positively impact through policy or advocacy.