The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was put into law in 2010. The ACA was meant to make healthcare accessible to all United States Citizens by lowering monthly premium costs, allowing any pre-existing condition to get coverage, and by expanding the scope of health care professionals (?). In addition to increased accessibility, the ACA includes guidelines for preventative healthcare. Free preventative care includes OB-GYN services, birth control, and emergency room visits even when made out of network (cite). The ACA provides a national marketplace where customers can go to shop for insurance plans.…
Retrieved March 16, 2017 from http://paulryan.house.gov/healthcare/ This is Paul Ryan’s website that gives a detailed explanation of what the health care plan he is devising consists of. It includes the actual proposal and a short summary option so readers can easily understand the plan and its components. I will refer to this website to explain what the new plan intends on doing to premiums etc. This will show that even though his plan saves money for the government, he will be taking away insurance from millions.…
Analyze and comment on economic analyses of health administrative innovations that are germane to the provision of health services. How have these innovations become more important in health care delivery within the context of the Affordable Care Act? Throughout the health care system, it has used the expansion of healthcare insurance for accessing several strategies that are used to promote how the services are delivered which is through models, strategies, and payment structure build on the improvement of health care quality. By using the Affordable Care Act (ACA), it has given the Americans a reason to improve on chosen approaches that would eventually overcome the populations based on the reduction of healthcare cost. Develop a list of similarities and differences between cost benefit and cost effectiveness analysis as they pertain to specific health care service demands.…
Millions of uninsured Americans now have access to affordable health insurance and in turn, new taxes were implemented to help pay for the uninsured. Over half of uninsured Americans can acquire free or low cost health insurance, and to offset for this you are required to obtain health insurance, request an exemption, or pay a fee. ACA ensures that you can’t be dropped from coverage when you get sick, have pre-existing conditions, or be charged more for being a woman. Because insurance companies are required to cover everyone; insurance rated go up. Medicaid has expanded to cover millions who fall below the poverty level.…
In 2010 the Affordable Care Act became one of the most talked about pieces of legislation that has brought many mixed reviews. Healthcare is a necessity that each of us need to maintain our lives. While we have an excellent source of healthcare service in the United States, it’s the access to that healthcare that has been a problem for many American’s. There are countries that have already turned to government healthcare. The Affordable Care Act was designed to help each of us have the access to Health care that we have not been able to afford in the past.…
The provisions of Affordable Care Act (ACA), include waiver that provide republicans a loop hole to strip down the ACA and make the policy ineffective. It creates an alternative approach to expanding medical coverage by individual mandate or premium tax credits to health care plans. From a republican stand point section 1115 allows the sectary of health and human resources to waive major portions of the ACA. For example, the case of Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby, where the ACA made the mandate that a company of more than 50 employees should cover conceptive measure. Later, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled in favor in Hobby Lobby, can be used to remove provisions of the ACA to favor more concretive views of the republican party.…
Although many of us, when we hear the name Affordable Care Act (ACA) we right away think about low coverage, better access, and affordability but there’s so much more to it. Physicians are now being faced with having to provide better patient safety and quality of care. Thanks to Medicare’s Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program (VBP), the quality of care provided to patients by hospitals is now measured through the use of quality measures and the patients’ overall satisfaction of care. Since the program was implemented, the ACA has showed significant results in the healthcare industry. For example, by improving patient safety and quality of care, adverse effects have lowered significantly.…
In contrast, in 2006, a family plan cost grew to $18,142, and employees paid $5,277. This trend is also supported by the charts in Document 7, which display a relationship between cost increases and increases in those being covered by health insurance. The existence of these relationships makes perfect sense, as those who were previously unable to get affordable health insurance due to pre-existing conditions were now able to join the pool (Document 9). This has led to a surge in costs for healthy individuals and has led to the cancellations of plans utilized by approximately 2.6 million individuals.…
Mahri Bledsoe Obama Barack Obama was an excellent leader because he provided afforded health care, he kept our country safe, and he helped the environment. Not everyone can buy whatever they want. Some people live paycheck to paycheck and they are struggling to buy everything, even the things people need the most such as healthcare. To help this problem Obama formed the Affordable Care Act which helps people who can't afford the health care they really need. In the article “Affordable Care Act Determined to Be Constitutional, June 28, 2012” by Historic US Events states “The ACA regulates the health insurance industry, helping to increase the quality, affordability, and availability or private medical insurance.”…
As Americans, do we not have the right to provide for and protect our families? In 2010, the largest overhaul of the health care system, since Medicare, began with legislation for The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act(PPACA), also known as Affordable Care Act(ACA) or commonly identified as Obama Care. This legislation brought care to American families that had never participated in a health care program, or never acquired health insurance because of financial hardship (Thompson). Arguably, there is the conservative citizen, and religious members of our society that claim we are creating Socialized Medicine and or interfering with religious freedoms. Equally important, The Affordable Care Act provides access to Medical Insurance to those individuals with the greatest need, at an affordable rate or no fee at all, with securities that the insurance companies no longer hold all the power over the individuals and allowing insured with preexisting conditions to obtain quality health care.…
The Affordable care act aim’s to provide Medicaid coverage for millions of low income Americans and its goal to make improvements to…
For employees with very low-income employees, whom cannot afford their employer’s coverage, will become eligible for health care, without any penalty for employers. The Affordable Care Act also created new protections to ensure your insurance plan covers you when you need it and enhances these protections by eliminating limits on the amount of benefits you can receive. By doing so, one will be rewarded with quality of care, rather than the quantity of care. Another benefit from the ACA is, it will help against health care fraud and small business tax credits. Other positive benefits include strengthening Medicare with yearly wellness visits for Medicare recipients, and holding insurance companies accountable and require the insurers justify any premium increase of 10% or…
Patient Protection and Affordable Care are more well known as Obama Care. The Health Bill is a pdf on the internet that says, “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will accomplish a fundamental transformation of health insurance in the United States through shared responsibility.” This is the law President Obama put in place for health insurance. Though Obama Care is affordable it is not worth having.…
However, not everyone was happy with these reforms. Obamacare was a burden to businesses that were forced to provide coverage and created an administrative nightmare for companies and providers with little incentive for doing so besides penalties. Although it helped many people, it was also a burden to business and was costly if a family did not qualify for a government subsidy. Cost control is one of the most important elements to health care reform and Obamacare was costly to the insured, their employers, and the government. Millions more people had access to healthcare, and were essentially required to have some form of coverage, but there were many problems as well.…
Class in America is becoming more apparent in the present. One of the major problems, especially economically, is healthcare between classes. In response, the government passed the passing of the Affordable Care Act or better known as “Obamacare” created the website healthcare.gov not only to sign up for Obamacare, but to be more informed about what it is. They have posted many videos to YouTube for people to watch so they can be better informed on why anyone should sign up. One video in particular greatly conveys the money that any one person could save by switching to this new plan.…