Is the bank legally permitted to carry through this action? Does this constitute an invasion of privacy?

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There are a total of 9 questions: 6 in employment law and 3 in accounting. They should be completed today. These questions are not related and should be answered separately with the correlating question number on top. In addition, the answers should be no more than a paragraph or so. References are required.

 

HRM

 

Q1

 

A bank in a small town is concerned with the perception of its employees by customers and others in the community. Branch managers are responsible for both the running of the branches and building community relationships. The bank decides that it needs to determine if certain personal habits are creating a negative perception towards customers. The bank decides to monitor its branch manager’s off-duty activities in order to determine if this is creating concerns for the bank. Is the bank legally permitted to carry through this action? Does this constitute an invasion of privacy?

 

Q2

 

As human resource leaders, future and present, your mandate is recruit, hire and retain a highly qualified workforce–a workforce that is not qualified by virtue of training and experience, but a workforce of integrity–honest, drug free, physically and emotionally healthy.

Pre-employment testing of one form or another has been a part of American business since the early 1950’s. What kind of pre-employment testing is valid and contributes to overall company performance? Are there any kinds of testing that either should be barred or are capable of being used inappropriately?

Discuss which provisions you believe will be difficult to achieve or implement because of the inherent challenges in the current U.S. healthcare landscape

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Affordable Care Act

Presently, the United States government, in conjunction with both the public and private healthcare sectors, is working toward implementing the law.

For this week, please review the major provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on page 193 of your textbook and formulate an initial post with the following criteria:

  • Choose one provision that is most important and discuss why implementation will make congruent improvements to the current U.S. system.
  • Discuss which provisions you believe will be difficult to achieve or implement because of the inherent challenges in the current U.S. healthcare landscape; please name and describe those challenges.
  • Lastly, what has been left out of these major provisions? Had you been able to meet with congressional members, what would you have lobbied to include in the act?
  • Must be 150 Words or more
  • APA format
  • Cite references in paragraphs.

    Affordable Care Act

    Presently, the United States government, in conjunction with both the public and private healthcare sectors, is working toward implementing the law.

    For this week, please review the major provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on page 193 of your textbook and formulate an initial post with the following criteria:

    • Choose one provision that is most important and discuss why implementation will make congruent improvements to the current U.S. system.
    • Discuss which provisions you believe will be difficult to achieve or implement because of the inherent challenges in the current U.S. healthcare landscape; please name and describe those challenges.
    • Lastly, what has been left out of these major provisions? Had you been able to meet with congressional members, what would you have lobbied to include in the act?
    • Must be 150 Words or more
    • APA format
    • Cite references in paragraphs

Essentials of Health Policy and Law

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Public Health Professional

1) A) What is a health policy analysis? Is this a field that attracts you? Why or why not?

 

OR

B) How does product differentiation affect demand for the product? How does product differentiation relate to competition? Provide examples.

 

 

2) Public Health Professionals

Choose a public health profession from Careers in Public Health athttp://www.careersinpublichealth.net/careers that you find interesting. Click on the career field to learn more about it. Briefly describe the career you chose and what a person in this position might do on a day-to-day basis. Go to your state or local health department’s webpage and search for the department where a person in your chosen position might work. What types of programs do they provide to the residents in your community?

 

 

3)Review pages 109–110 of Essentials of Health Policy and Law as well as the following legislation:

 

Examination and Treatment for Emergency Medical Conditions and Women in Labor

 

You are a consultant specializing in policy analysis. Based on the Examination and Treatment for Emergency Medical Conditions and Women in Labor legislation, as well as the situation that follows, you will complete a policy analysis with 3–5 options for your client, Congresswoman Moody, to consider.

Congresswoman Moody represents a state that borders Mexico. She is up for re election next year, and she will seek another term in office.

 

There are many undocumented workers that reside in her district. Congresswoman Moody is vocal about the need to provide health care to all that need it, but she also believes in fiscal restraint and does not support bail-outs for private facilities. She is well aware that her state’s Medicaid budget is almost exhausted for this year, and the state’s unemployment rate remains stubbornly high.

Apart from the voters, other affected constituents include three private regional medical centers trauma units that receive referrals from five or more small facilities that have emergency departments with lesser trauma status. Also, the largest health care corporation that owns two of the three medical centers in her catchment area, and which supported her in her last bid for election with campaign funds at the allowable limit, is threatening to refuse Medicare and Medicaid patients to ensure survival in the bad economy. An increase in unfunded mandates for urgent care may push this corporation into private payer only, and Congresswoman Moody is aware that there are enough affluent families in the area to support two facilities providing only designer medicine and concierge services.

All options must:

 

Be within the power of Congresswoman Moody to do

Be consistent with Congresswoman Moody’s values, and

Address the issue identified in the problem statement

You will:

 

Identify 3–5 options for Congresswoman Moody’s consideration

Identify criteria that will be used to evaluate the options

Identify pros and cons for each option

Use a side-by-side table (MS® Excel® would be appropriate for this) to assist in analyzing the options.

Prepare a paper at least 500 words in length and include at least four references.

How would you define the term, “equity and fairness”, in the context of the healthcare situations prevailing in the United States and Canada?

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Healthcare Synthesis

Using the South University online library, the Internet, and the data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), research comparative international work and compare the United States and Canada with respect to which country is more effective in the areas of (1) economic growth; (2) expenditure (public and private expenditure on health); (3) information and communications technology; and (4) health.

Click here to access data from the OECD.

On the basis of your observations, create a 1- to 2-page report.

Your report should address the following questions:

  • After going through the statistics:
    • What information or statistic you find either surprising or reasonable?
    • Do you anticipate the statistics will be similar in ten years? Why or why not?
  • The current structure of healthcare coverage in the United States has a combination of employer-based coverage and public program (e.g., Medicare, Medicaid) coverage, with a large uninsured population. If a single-payer system is implemented where Medicare is expanded to cover all citizens for those who prefer private insurance, there will be comparable coverage under the same range of private insurance plans already available. Keeping in mind these considerations, answer the following questions:
    • What do you think about allowing some people to purchase additional insurance, thereby creating a two-tier health system based on affordability?
    • What are the advantages and disadvantages of this initiative?
  • Considering the fact that healthcare is not a guaranteed right for everyone in the United States, there are different kinds of barriers and obstacles in obtaining healthcare. In contrast to this fact, the notions of equity and fairness are considered very important. You will notice that these notions aren’t considered when we discuss people’s access to other goods, such as cars and computers.
    • What are these barriers? Give examples of the different barriers to health care under the following headings:
      • Financial barriers
      • Scarcity of healthcare providers
      • Barriers to access healthcare
      • Cultural barriers
      • Barriers of healthcare resources
    • How would you define the term, “equity and fairness”, in the context of the healthcare situations prevailing in the United States and Canada?
    • Why are they considered important when discussing people’s access to care?
  • It is believed that government funded healthcare for all citizens is consistent with a capitalist economy and the cultural values of self-determination and free enterprise.
    • Do you agree with this statement? If not, what other approaches do you think will resolve the current inequities in the system?