For patients with billing questions, how would you advise them?

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  1. For patients with billing questions, how would you advise them?
  2. What are the resources you can give this patient related to healthcare costs and/or his insurance coverage?
  3. Describe the significant changes in hospital healthcare during the last 5-10 years.
  4. Are your values to act as an agent for the patient or for the hospital more strongly developed?Answer the following questions:
  5. Where do you begin with this project? Who should be involved?
  6. What is some information that you will need before you can offer any suggestions?
  7. Should group decision-making be involved in fiscal decisions such as this one?
  8. Can fiscal decisions be made without value judgments?3. Develop a 10-year career plan for yourself, taking into account the constraints of family responsibilities such as marriage, children, educational endeavors, and aging parents. Consider how you envision your future. Recognize the phases of your career and explain your progress to assist in the development of a long-term master plan.

Do you agree or disagree? In what ways would a stronger president promote effective representation and allow the U.S. to do a better job of meeting the policy challenges it faces? In what ways would a stronger president undermine representation and make the U.S. less effective in meeting the policy challenges it faces? In the end, do you agree or disagree that the U.S. presidency should be strengthened? Why?

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  1. The President does a better job than Congress of addressing our most pressing problems—from health care to immigration to financial regulation—because presidents’ concern for their legacy drives them to seek coherent policy solutions.
  2. Thus, the increasing power of the President in our political system has been a good development for American democracy. And, if anything, Congress and all of its pathologies ought to be pushed to the periphery and we ought to further strengthen the role of presidents.
  3. Do you agree or disagree? In what ways would a stronger president promote effective representation and allow the U.S. to do a better job of meeting the policy challenges it faces? In what ways would a stronger president undermine representation and make the U.S. less effective in meeting the policy challenges it faces? In the end, do you agree or disagree that the U.S. presidency should be strengthened? Why?
  4. Either argue that a stronger role for the president would undermine representation and make the U.S. less effective at meeting the policy challenges it faces or argue that a stronger role for the president would promote effective representation and make the U.S. more effective at meeting the policy challenges it faces.

Using proper APA format they will write a brief introduction on the topic describing its importance and discussing the relevance of the material.

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Assignment: Students are required to submit an annotated bibliography which examines and uses novels, textbooks, news articles, journal articles, movies and other multi-media sources on a topic related to stress management and mental health.

Using proper APA format they will write a brief introduction on the topic describing its importance and discussing the relevance of the material. After compiling a list of 4 sources students will write critical introductions to the selections they have chosen discussing why they are important and what relevance they have to the chosen topic.

This should demonstrate to the instructor that the sources have been vetted and read (news/journal articles) or closely examined and the introduction and conclusions understood (academic books, novels, text books).

The list MUST include: one independently researched academic article (peer-reviewed, published and edited in a journal or newspaper), the movie watched in class (The Messenger 2009) and an additional source which must be a book, either a novel or academic text. The fourth source has no criteria and can be selected at the students’ discretion. Do not use the PowerPoint slides.

After discussing each source separately the only “conclusion” needed is an APA formatted bibliography listing all the references.

Order of sources:
1.    Peer review journal article OR article from an accepted newspaper**
2.    Book, either a fictional work (like a novel) or a textbook
3.    Film The Messenger
4.    Student’s selection (no criteria)

Format: This assignment is to be completed in formal essay format double-spaced.  A reference list (bibliography) must be included at the end of the assignment. The assignment MUST be a minimum of 1000 words TOTAL (approximately 200 words per source and a small introduction)and use font size 12, black ink, Times New Roman. If the paper is not that long or doesn’t conform to those parameters it will lose marks.

Does Asthma still pose a health risk for people living in the U.S. and in the world? Why or why not?

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  1. Read the articles in the following order of publish date starting with the earliest.
    1. USC Study Links Smoggy Air to lung Damage in Children, Sep 17 2004
    2. USC study Examines near-roadway air pollution as contributor to

asthma September 25, 2012

  1. Take a deep breath – you may not like what’s up in the air July 15,

2014

  1. LA’s Environmental Success Story: Cleaner Air, Healthier Kids Mar 4

2015

  1. Answer the following questions according to your understanding of the articles:
    1. 1)  What are the most interesting three takeaways for you from these readings?
    2. 2)  Does Asthma still pose a health risk for people living in the U.S. and in the world? Why or why not?
    3. 3)  What possible air pollution related factors (risk factors) influence asthma or lung malfunctioning according to the research? What are the sources of these factors according to the reading?
    4. 4)  What has been done to reduce those factors mentioned in “2” already?
    5. 5)  Picture yourself as the environmental engineer working for the EPA, charged with the responsibility of assessing the risk associated with air toxins for the future? How would you approach this? What steps would you follow? Do you have enough information to make conclusions?
    6. 6)  Do you believe that the current conditions a good indicator that we are reducing the risk due to air toxins? Explain your reasoning.