US Health Care Legislation
US Health Care
US
Health Care Legislation
Video introduction: A New Day for Health Care in America
New reforms under the Affordable Care Act begin to bring to an end some of the worst abuses of the insurance industry. These reforms will give Americans new rights and benefits, including helping more children get health coverage, ending lifetime and most annual limits on care, and giving patients access to recommended preventive services without cost-sharing.
The White House
Health reform makes health care more affordable, holds insurers more accountable, expands coverage to all Americans and makes our health system sustainable …
whitehouse.gov
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Washington Post
Tracking the national debate on health care system overhaul:
As many as 129 million Americans under age 65 have medical problems that are red flags for health insurers, according to an analysis that marks the government's first attempt to quantify the number of people at risk of being rejected by insurance companies or paying more for coverage.
washingtonpost.com
- health-care-reform
This selection of video productions from Annenberg Media will give some background information on the issue of health care in the US that can help to understand the context for this new law.
The new health care legislation is the largest social reform in the USA so far since Medicare and Social Security.
1. Growing old in a new age
A video about the impact of aging on both society and individuals as 75 diverse elders relate their experiences. The four ways that age is measured — chronologically, biologically, psychologically, and socially.
Growing
old in a new age
2. Economics in the USA
This video is about the history and economic rationale behind national health care programs -- Medicare and Medicaid -- for vulnerable Americans in Economics U$A. and explore the fundamentals of economic history, theory, and practice, including microeconomics and macroeconomics, through interviews with Nobel Prize-winning economists.
The
history and economic rationale
3. Against All Odds: Inside Statistics
explores the mathematics of soaring health care costs. With an emphasis on “doing” statistics.
Against
all Odds: Inside Statistics
4. Three Farewells: Medicine & the End of Life
discusses various considerations in the delivery of health care.
Medicine
and the end of life - three farewells
5. Democracy in America
This film shows how both citizens and government can influence what options are made available to the public.
Health
Care and Democracy in America
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see also from the LBS:
Medicare and Health Care Reform in America
