Archive for March 2017
Leave No Disabled Child Behind – SJU Lisa Carlson
Baby boomers may have been too young in 1975 to remember. Millennials were not even born however; this year was an essential year in many of this particular generations lives. 1975 also marked the beginning of a change for parents of special education students and of course the students themselves. The Individuals with Disabilities Education…
Read MoreAffordable Care Act (Important Update) – Roy Cunningham M.S Healthcare Administration
UPDATE: 3/7/2017 On the Affordable Care Act via New York Times. Individual mandate: REPEAL. Employer mandate: REPEAL. Subsidies for out of pocket expenses: REPEAL. Premiums subsides: CHANGE, distributed by age instead of income. Medicaid expansion: CHANGE, states keep Medicaid expansion and allows to get federal funding until 2020. Cap federal funding per enrollee based on…
Read MoreEthical Issues Around Right to Die – Roy Cunningham M.S. Healthcare Administration
Bioethics is a controversial topic that many people in the general public chose to ignore or for them it’s not even on their agenda’s. Healthcare professionals don’t have the luxury of shying away from this subject area either. The term bioethics is an all-encompassing word that can cover many topics from designer babies, medical testing…
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