Leadership and Healthcare Analysis

¶ … Professional Growth Through Mentoring and Coaching

Since the year 1995, over a hundred persons have received training to become mentors, within Ohio State's Extension. Yearly appraisal of its mentoring initiative has revealed that most proteges feel their program development and implementation skills have been enhanced; they also feel the program has aided them in understanding their workplace's economic and political environment. Proteges as well as mentors reported that their interactions were carried out in a relaxed and calm setting. This article concentrates on employee coaching and mentoring approaches within the Extension. By presenting research works and discussing latest applications, authors of the paper examine the differences between, and common benefits of, coaching and mentoring. The article cites numerous examples of processes implemented in the 'Extension' for supporting the ideas (Kutilek & Earnest, 2011).

Personal success story or experience that you have had with a mentor or a job coach

I had an amazing experience in the role of program assistant last year, for the "Mentoring for Success" initiative. This initiative enabled me to understand that hard work, motivation, and perseverance go a long way to aid us in our personal and professional development. In specific, the support and resultant reward for my dedicated work for this initiative helped me inculcate within myself numerous crucial communication and work-related skills in the past year. I believe this role wasn't only a mere job, as I felt I was benefiting and working for not only others, but myself as well. I could undertake projects, aid and guide my peers, work in close collaboration with my superior, and, on the whole, grow into a more effective leader. Thus, I can gladly profess that I wholly enjoyed my work with the "Mentoring for Success" initiative, and had a good time working in cooperation with my helpful, humble colleagues in the past year.

Does attempting to guarantee an alleged "right" to health care violate actual individual rights that require a person to buy something he or she does not want?

The notion that Obamacare steals one's freedom is untrue. It can't and doesn't make any individual do something they don't desire, in connection with their personal healthcare. The lone example of restrictions is the requirement of either purchasing insurance or paying a tax. It is a false claim that Obamacare costs citizens their freedom. Rather, citizens will most probably be saving money and accessing more regulated Affordable Care. Everyone will be able to enjoy improved preventive services, as well as the security that they will not be left unaided when unwell or denied services for any preexisting health issue.

Will the structure of Obama's health care plan cause employers to stop providing health care and expect the government to pay for it?

No. By the year 2016, small companies having between 50 and 99 FTE (full-time equivalent) workers will be required to begin insuring them. Companies having a minimum of 100 workers will have to provide health benefits up to no less than 70% of FTE by the year 2015, which will have to be raised to 95% by the year 2016. Small companies having 49 or fewer FTEs do not need to provide their employees with insurance; they can obtain tax breaks amounting to a maximum of 50% of employee premium expenses through health insurance exchanges. Since the year 2010, small companies (? 25 FTE workers) have been receiving tax credits for healthcare, retroactively (Obamacarefacts, 2016).

Will those who currently have health care see the quality of their care erode?

Yes.

Defend your position by discussing key points regarding the Affordable Care Act.

The problem with Obamacare is that it is driving healthcare within the nation the wrong way, by its erosion of the patient-doctor relationship, raising heath expenses, and centralizing control. A good policy of health reform ought to empower patients, with doctors, for making their own decisions in relation to their healthcare, free of the interference of the government.

Principle #1: Choose, control, and carry your own health insurance.

A true reform in healthcare ought to support personal health insurance ownership. Though Obamacare utilizes government-managed insurance marketplaces for limiting individual choice, a real reform would concentrate on urging citizens to buy insurance policies which can be taken with them while changing jobs and into their retirement stage, in a free and competitive market. Lawmakers ought to enact a number of major reforms for this personal healthcare ownership culture to develop (The Heritage Foundation, 2016).

Equal Tax Relief

Though Obamacare changes health insurance's tax treatment, it is done such that taxpayers' burden is increased. Its 40% tax on the so-named Cadillac plans is just one example of the eighteen distinct tax raises the law includes, which, as per the Joint Committee on Taxation and Congressional Budget Office, will raise revenues by 771 billion dollars between 2013 and 2022 (Joint Committee on Taxation, 2012). A more effective policy would even out health insurance's tax treatment without creating new revenues.