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Healthcare Infrastructure Term Paper
Pages:2 (506 words)
Subject:Health
Topic:Health Screening
Document Type:Term Paper
Document:#20826166
Healthcare Infrastructure Memorandum
United States Surgeon General
Pediatric Doctors of America
Policy Change Memo
This memo is an attempt to gather your support in our efforts to change the existing policy regarding the funding of preventative screening programs for heart disease in adolescents. Your office currently concurs and supports the pay structure where preventative screening programs for heart disease are fully funded by the patient or personal insurance as well as your being totally against the programs being funded by Medicare or Medicaid. This would be fine if every child in America had personal insurance. However, as you are well aware, there are just too many Americans without basic health insurance. The American public has been seeing an escalated number of cases of adolescent Heart Disease and we therefore request you reconsider your position.
There is currently enough evidence to predict adults who may potentially get hypercholesterolemia and other heart conditions based on high cholesterol levels those adults had during childhood. Your office currently does not support the notion of adolescent preventative screening however it is our opinion that the guidelines supported by your office show that these predictions can not be made. We feel that the foundation of your rejecting preventative screening is founded on flawed clinical trails. These inaccurate details undermine the evidence supporting our findings.
Based on the medical proof that shows there is a high level of benefit associated with early intervention for hypercholesterolemia in children supports that preventative screening is necessary. There is new evidence that atherosclerosis found…
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