There are some reasons that lawsuits should certainly be filed, especially in cases of obvious negligence, but Americans today file an amazingly large amount of lawsuits, and many are truly unnecessary. These kinds of lawsuits are already a problem for the medical community and they will only become more problematic if suing HMOs becomes big business (Alter, 2001)
They also are considered an industry leader in the consumer goods market, simply because they market and sell so many products. Many products that are bought by consumers are marketed under subsidiary companies, but if the consumer were to examine the label they would see the Johnson & Johnson name on it as well (Birger, 2001)
A case in point is one young woman, the mother or two, who thought that she had appendicitis. She went to her doctor, who said it was a urinary tract infection, gave her some medicine, and sent her back home (Decarlo, 2000)
Those that were worried about getting flooded with lawsuits have not seen this happen, and many lawyers are actually disappointed because they thought that they could make a great deal of money off of many of these high-dollar lawsuits. That does not mean that there will never be a flood of HMO lawsuits, but it has not happened yet (Kilcullen, 1996)
As new drugs are being developed and new research is being performed, the pharmaceutical industry will only continue to grow. This will spell more profits and continued success for Johnson & Johnson (Krauskopf, 2002)
According to the author of the study, William McArthur, "The Canadian government purposely restricts the overall availability of prescription drugs through a combination of a lengthy drug approval process and oppressive price controls. The result is that patients are often harmed" (McArthur, 2000)
This is especially true of African-American children and other minority children, but white American children also have difficulty with health care insurance issues. While it is true that 88% of children in this country have health insurance, many of these children have Medicaid, which does not pay for much of what children really need (Payne, 1994)
The bottom line is that they are around to make money, even though the also try to help people to live longer and enjoy their lives. This interest in money makes them vulnerable to the things that HMOs want to do, because they have to be able to make a profit (Perry, 2001)
This was significant because it will likely lead the way to more of these cases in Texas and also across the country. In one of the cases that was presented in Texas one of the main medical directors for a healthcare organization was forced to be held accountable for the decisions that he made from a medical standpoint (Reece, 2000)
Many elderly people have to choose between purchasing the lifesaving drugs that they need or paying their rent and electric bills. This, as well as the 40 million people in this country that do not have health insurance, makes the greatest nation in the world looked as though it doesn't care as much about its people as it should, and reflects badly when looked at against many other nations that provide health-care coverage for everyone who lives there (Reiss, 2002)
They are stuck in that inconvenient place between being poor enough for Medicaid and rich enough to afford their own health insurance. Often, they are working-class families with children, and while they work every day and contribute to taxes and other requirements, they are rewarded by an inability to afford decent healthcare coverage for their dependents (Wheeler, 2002)
, atypical patients) because of specific unusual factors pertaining to their condition. "An outlier patient, in terms of the Theory of Bureaucratic Caring (Ray, 1989), is one for whom the organization provides care beyond what is technically reimbursable from the payor source of interest, creating a situation where the elements of caring are given precedent over the elements of bureaucracy" (Landry 2001: 83)
There has been a dual, contrasting interpretation of Lange through the ages, one perspective which views her work as essentially political, like Gordon, while others like James Curtis who see her work as more personal than political: "Lange sought to create a transcendent image that would communicate her sense of the migrants' condition. She created a portrait that incorporated elements she knew her contemporaries would understand and find worthy of support" (Curtis 2)
¶ … Photographic Analysis of Dorothea Lange's Political And Artistic Vision: Candidate for Congress (General Walter Faulkner) and a Tennessee farmer. Crossville, Tennessee "Although many do not know her name, her photographs live in the subconscious of virtually anyone in the United States who has any concept of that economic disaster" (Gordon 698)