Question

1.Read the following passage carefully. (10) " America has a highly developed health care system, which is available to all people. Although it can be very complex and frustrating at times, it has come a long way from the health care organizations of yesterday. Previously, most health care facilities were a place where the sick were housed and cared for until death. Physicians rarely practised in hospitals and only those who were fortunate could afford proper care at home or in private clinics. Today the level of health care has excelled tremendously. Presently the goal of the health care is to have a continum of care for the patient, one which is integrated at all levels. Many hospitals offer a discharge plan to patients who are being discharged. Plans for the patients are discussed with a discharge planner. The discharge planner is a person who is trained in assessing what the patient's requirements for health care will be after discharge from the hospital. This enables the patients to continue their care at a level which is most appropriate for them. Items, reviewed for discharge planning include but are not limited to therapies, medication needs, living arrangements and identification of specific goals. A few of the options that are available for persons being discharged from an acute care hospital can include home health care. The nurse and therapists usually help the patient at home spart from the family members. Answer the following questions briefly : 1. How was the health care system in the past in America? 2.What is the present goal of health care in America? 3What are the duties / functions of a discharge planner? 4.Who are the people who generally help the ailing patient at home apart from the family members? 5. Many hospitals offer __________. (complete the sentence).​

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Health insecurity is at an all-time high. In a time when thousands of people lose their health insurance every day, when health care is becoming elusive to even well-to-do Americans, and when any person is just one pink slip away from becoming uninsured, it becomes clear that health care for all is not just important to achieve, but imperative. At its root, the lack of health care for all in America is fundamentally a moral issue. The United States is the only industrialized nation that does not have some form of universal health care (defined as a basic guarantee of health care to all of its citizens).