Medicare and Medicaid

What parts of the movement toward Medicare and Medicaid are still unaffected today?

Scarce Resources

How should scarce resources be allocated and used? Why?

Government Influence on the Running of Health Facilities - Federal vs. State

How have various branches of the government influence the way we run our health facilities today? Is this primarily a federal or state role?

Government Regulations

Are the regulations sufficient, excessive, or insufficient?

US Managed Care with an example for reference

What does managed care look like? Can you povide a detailed example of a managed care provider to help me understand everything that is involved (i.e., providers, contracts, Medicare, Medicaid) and how the different providers fit together? Thanks.

The effect of US Managed Care on Doctors

How has manged care effected doctors (i.e., patient relationships, work-load, etc.)? Are there any benefits? Any articles that you can suggest? Thanks.

Compare lesson plans to nursing care plans

Compare the process involved in writing a lesson plan to writing a nursing plan of care and what are some of the similarities!

Legislation in health care

What recent legislation has had an impact, direct or indirect, on the way we provide helath care? Who has the interest group behind the legislation?

Public policy

Why are some interest groups more successful than others in shaping public policy?

Agency regulations

Name a recent change in an agency regulation effecting health care facilities. What agency intitiated the change? What was the rationale or purpose of the new or changed regulation?