HSN/476: Healthcare Policy And Financial Management

Wk 1 Discussion – A Life is Priceless

Instructions: Reply substantively to at least 2 of your classmates. Be constructive and professional in your responses. Response ranges from 150 to 300 words per student.

**Adiqa I.

           Do you agree with Milken’s view and argument that a life is priceless? Why or why not? Support your position by citing professional literature or examples from your experience. 

Lives are priceless in my personal opinion and happen to agree with Milken’s view and argument 100%. If a patient is in the emergency room with no health insurance the individual should not have less attention of care plan as consequence. While the next patient considered high-class salary with a great healthcare option the plan has changed dramatically, he is treated with increase quality care plan. Nurses and doctors are practical tripping over each other to attend the wealthy individual.  While government and businesses argue who will be responsible for cost of medical bills for which insurance does not cover. Milken approach is looking at the individual and community by suggestion of “focus on prevention” in the long run cost will be decrease by prevention verses tertiary levels. In order to push the area to focus on prevention the process that is initiated by having leadership to promote this process. Some argue too much prevention in hopes to develop a good patient outcome is pricey with the number of intervention to hope for change that may be out of the business, and government hands. Milken to another approach by yes agreeing it may not be guaranteed based on diagnosis. On the other hand, taking the initiative to develop prevents a plan that contains multiple steps. The cost is up in the air on the table, people become intimidated with change. However one will not know unless the back of hypothesis can show that the cost for prevention comes in less by a significant amount to dollars that will catch the eye of businesses striving to make this change. 

Reference:

CNBC LLC, 2010: The Future of Health Care: Meeting of the Minds (43:37). [Video File]. Films on Demand.

**Catherine C.

Do you agree with Milken’s view and argument that a life is priceless? Why or why not?

Yes, I do, we all come into this world with indefinite value. 

 Do I look at my child and think, if given a choice of saving the life of a my child over that of another child what would I choose, I would heartbreakingly choose my child and suffer every day for making that choice (Sophia’s Choice was one of the worst movies I have ever watched) Also if told I had to choose between a convicted serial murderer and the life of mother of three, I would pick the mother, so what does that say about my perceived value of life verses the choices life makes and how that would come into play, or about me? As a nurse I look at each patient or client the same, each of them receives the same level of care. We are lucky, as nurses, we do not have to make a choice on who is or is not our patient. We just must deliver the best care we can regardless of who they are.

The discussion Milken ends up having in this video, is not so much about the value of life but how do we get to place in our country where the social status of a client does not determine the care provided. The solution to this problem is evolving as the hick-ups in the current Obama-care system verses our previously (and currently) large uninsured population, have us all debating how do we accomplish this and not go bankrupt.

 The 3 tenets and 8 steps of Kotter’s 8-step process for leading change (Al, Vanderpool, Change-Management Approach to Closing Care Gaps in a Federally Qualified Health Center, August 8th, 2019) is one part of the solution that has some real promising outcomes, outcomes that allow us all to help implement change on levels we can see and feel. The three tenants each have steps to them the move the system forward in a way that could lead to change that would encompass change from the inside out an address one of the USA biggest problems which is that 75% of all health-care cost are life choices. With education, incentives, discounts for good choices (ex: non-smoker) and so on. This portion of the tenets could substantially decrease cost. 

I have had personal experience with socialized medicine, my father was stationed in 2009 in England and was diagnosed with 4th stage lung cancer. Because of his age the treatment they would recommend to a younger man was not available to him through their care. I volunteered to pay the 10k cost to get this medication for him, it took four weeks to arrive, it was by then to late to effect enough change. He died three months later. Research with doctors (my bother and my cousin are both doctors) here in the USA inform me that if he had been here in the USA his chances would have been substantially better and his treatment would have been immediate and covered.

Reference: Carman AL, Vanderpool RC, Stradtman LR, Edmiston EA. A Change-Management Approach to Closing Care Gaps in a Federally Qualified Health Center: A Rural Kentucky Case Study. Prev Chronic Dis 2019;16:180589. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd16.180589external icon

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HSN/476: Healthcare Policy And Financial Management

Wk 1 Discussion – A Life is Priceless

Instructions: Reply substantively to at least 2 of your classmates. Be constructive and professional in your responses. Response ranges from 150 to 300 words per student.

**Adiqa Ives

         Do you agree with Milken’s view and argument that a life is priceless? Why or why not? Support your position by citing professional literature or examples from your experience. 

Lives are priceless in my personal opinion and happen to agree with Milken’s view and argument 100%. If a patient is in the emergency room with no health insurance the individual should not have less attention of care plan as consequence. While the next patient considered high-class salary with a great healthcare option the plan has changed dramatically, he is treated with increase quality care plan. Nurses and doctors are practical tripping over each other to attend the wealthy individual.  While government and businesses argue who will be responsible for cost of medical bills for which insurance does not cover. Milken approach is looking at the individual and community by suggestion of “focus on prevention” in the long run cost will be decrease by prevention verses tertiary levels. In order to push the area to focus on prevention the process that is initiated by having leadership to promote this process. Some argue too much prevention in hopes to develop a good patient outcome is pricey with the number of intervention to hope for change that may be out of the business, and government hands. Milken to another approach by yes agreeing it may not be guaranteed based on diagnosis. On the other hand, taking the initiative to develop prevents a plan that contains multiple steps. The cost is up in the air on the table, people become intimidated with change. However one will not know unless the back of hypothesis can show that the cost for prevention comes in less by a significant amount to dollars that will catch the eye of businesses striving to make this change. 

Reference:

CNBC LLC, 2010: The Future of Health Care: Meeting of the Minds (43:37). [Video File]. Films on Demand.

**Catherine Campbell

2/18/21, 5:31 PM

Top of Form

Do you agree with Milken’s view and argument that a life is priceless? Why or why not?

Yes, I do, we all come into this world with indefinite value. 

 Do I look at my child and think, if given a choice of saving the life of a my child over that of another child what would I choose, I would heartbreakingly choose my child and suffer every day for making that choice (Sophia’s Choice was one of the worst movies I have ever watched) Also if told I had to choose between a convicted serial murderer and the life of mother of three, I would pick the mother, so what does that say about my perceived value of life verses the choices life makes and how that would come into play, or about me? As a nurse I look at each patient or client the same, each of them receives the same level of care. We are lucky, as nurses, we do not have to make a choice on who is or is not our patient. We just must deliver the best care we can regardless of who they are.

The discussion Milken ends up having in this video, is not so much about the value of life but how do we get to place in our country where the social status of a client does not determine the care provided. The solution to this problem is evolving as the hick-ups in the current Obama-care system verses our previously (and currently) large uninsured population, have us all debating how do we accomplish this and not go bankrupt.

 The 3 tenets and 8 steps of Kotter’s 8-step process for leading change

(Al, Vanderpool, Change-Management Approach to Closing Care Gaps in a Federally Qualified Health Center, August 8th, 2019) is one part of the solution that has some real promising outcomes, outcomes that allow us all to help implement change on levels we can see and feel. The three tenants each have steps to them the move the system forward in a way that could lead to change that would encompass change from the inside out an address one of the USA biggest problems which is that 75% of all health-care cost are life choices. With education, incentives, discounts for good choices (ex: non-smoker) and so on. This portion of the tenets could substantially decrease cost. 

I have had personal experience with socialized medicine, my father was stationed in 2009 in England and was diagnosed with 4th stage lung cancer. Because of his age the treatment they would recommend to a younger man was not available to him through their care. I volunteered to pay the 10k cost to get this medication for him, it took four weeks to arrive, it was by then to late to effect enough change. He died three months later. Research with doctors (my bother and my cousin are both doctors) here in the USA inform me that if he had been here in the USA his chances would have been substantially better and his treatment would have been immediate and covered.

Reference: Carman AL, Vanderpool RC, Stradtman LR, Edmiston EA. A Change-Management Approach to Closing Care Gaps in a Federally Qualified Health Center: A Rural Kentucky Case Study. Prev Chronic Dis 2019;16:180589. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd16.180589external icon

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