Prescription Drug Coverage For Senior Citizens: Current Controversy
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10 pages in length. Health care reform has been a thorn in the nation's side ever since the development of private insurance and employer-supplied coverage after World War II. This union-supported venture did not sit well with subsequent presidents, such as Truman, who tried hard to reform health care so as to reflect a more comprehensive and viable commodity for all Americans. Clinton even took a shot at it, however, one might readily argue that his was the most catastrophic failure of all attempts made in past decades, with Johnson's passing of Medicare and Medicaid proving to be the only successful endeavor. Today, however, the issue of providing senior citizens with prescription drugs has come to the forefront of virtually all health-related concerns. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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PRESCRIPTION DRUGS AND THE GOVERNMENT’S INVOLVEMENT
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This 6 page paper discusses the high costs of American pharmaceuticals, offers solutions for reform and compares the industry to industries in other countries. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Pro Physician Assisted Suicide
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A 3 page paper which argues that physician assisted suicide should be legal. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Proposal to Increase Organ Donor Numbers
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A 3 page persuasive paper providing three arguments in favor of requiring all young adults to sign a statement indicating their willingness to consider donating their organs. Arguments include reinforcing the concept of exchange; making the selection process more objective; and diffusing arguments in favor of human cloning. No sources listed.
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Quality Of Life As An Outcome Measure: Political And Ethical Implications
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6 pages in length. Since the very first move toward humanizing the medical industry, quality of life has been a standard for measuring a patient's outcome. Indeed, while there may be medical procedures still to be applied to a particular disease or condition, the individual's quality of life must first be considered before deciding to implement further treatment. What is quality of life and why is it so important to patient care? In the context of patient care, quality of life represents the extent to which an individual can continue living his or her normal existence without the overwhelming presence of invasive medical procedures or treatments. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Reproductive Rights as Human Rights
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This is an 18 page paper discussing reproductive rights as a human right. Reproductive rights represents a component of human rights as promoted by the international community in regards to the “right to health and family planning; the right to life, freedom, integrity and security; the right not to be assaulted or exploited sexually; the right not to be tortured or to be the object of cruel, inhuman, degrading punishment or treatment; the right not to be subject to sex-based discrimination; the right to privacy; the right to intimacy; and the right to enjoy scientific progress and the right to consent to be an object of experimentation”. These basic human rights extend to include reproductive rights in many different areas of concern. Firstly, the international community has promoted the concept of reproductive rights in order to provide education and support for family planning, contraceptive options and safe abortion and health care environment to people who desire these rights and are in need of these rights. These concerns are mainly to address the growing number of women who die on an annual basis from unsupervised or illegal abortions and also to promote contraception use in order to prevent unplanned pregnancies, the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS. Second, on the basis of equal human rights, family planning and reproductive rights extend to both men and women although quite often the focus is on the sexual exploitation of women. Finally, reproductive rights also extend to those who wish to have children and who may also use the human right to use the benefit of scientific progress to do so which includes the use of the reproductive technologies of in-vitro fertilization, donor insemination, and cloning if desired. Because reproductive rights are based on desire and basic human rights for the individual decision in regards to reproduction, population growth arguments do not provide a good basis for conflict as some countries use reproductive rights to control population growth, other countries use reproductive rights to promote population growth. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Research Proposal for Life Satisfaction Measurement
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A 5 page paper presenting a proposal for a research project investigating life satisfaction as a function of race, gender and religion. The proposed research is a study conducted using new data collected from an old survey instrument, the Quality of American Life survey used in 1971 and replicated in 1978. The purpose of using the established questionnaire is to more reliably measure true changes in society and attitude rather than in survey question writing. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Ritalin: Is This Miracle Drug an Impostor?
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This is an interesting 5 page paper arguing that we look at the truth about Ritalin. This so-called miracle drug could be responsible for many of the problems in today's society; our children are being over-medicated in our zeal to take the easy way out when it comes to behavioral problems. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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Scams And Quackery Through The Ages
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This 8 page paper takes a look at scams and quackery in advertising through the ages in America. A focus is on pharmaceuticals but other issues are explored. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Selling Babies? The Ethical and Moral Dilemmas of Surrogate Motherhood
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This 7 page report discusses the moral and ethical concerns related to surrogate mothering. Surrogate motherhood agreements have been responsible for a great deal of public, governmental, religious, and legal debate. For some, the issue involves whether or not it is possible to legitimately establish a “commercial” contract for a biological process which involves the “production” and “transfer” of a human being. The report also considers the specific issues related to the issue from the perspective of nursing. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Should Assisted Suicide be legalized?
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This 5 page paper considers the social paradigm of the conflict perspective and the manner in which this may be interpreted when looking at whether or not assisted suicide or euthanasia should be allowed. The paper discusses the different perspectives, from Pope John Paul's statement that it is 'slaughter' to the idea of self-determination, allowing death with dignity. The bibliography cites 8 sources.
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Should Blood Donors Be Paid?
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This 6 page paper takes the position that paid blood donation should continue to be a reality. The problems with paid blood donation in terms of ethics and safety are duly noted. The myth of the volunteer donor is explored. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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