Affordable Care Act
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Affordable Care Act
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Abstract
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is also known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) this law is the landmark health reform legislation passed by the 111th Congress and was signed into law on March 23, 2010. The legislation includes a long list of health-related provisions that began taking effect in 2010 and will continue to be rolled out over the next four years. Provisions are intended to extend coverage to millions of uninsured Americans, to implement measures that will lower health care cost and improve system efficiency, and to eliminate industry practices that include rescission and denial of coverage due to pre-existing conditions (Owcharenko, 2012). The impact of PPACA will have negative and positive affects across the all businesses, insurance companies, and healthcare organizations.
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On March 23, 2010, the Affordable Care Act was signed into effect by the president and was upheld by the Supreme Court on June 28, 2012 ("Read the Law | HealthCare.gov", n.d). The Affordable Care Act has 10 titles to the law and under each title are sections. This law has brought on much controversy and has many negative and positive impacts. There are also some very drastic changes that this law will help make for our country and their impacts can be either negative or positive.
In Title I named, Quality, Affordable Health Care for all Americans, helps Americans get the healthcare coverage they deserve ("Read the Law | HealthCare.gov", n.d). Those Americans that already have medical insurance that they are happy with will not be impacted by this Title; it’s those that don’t have insurance that will be affected. They will get to choose the insurance that best suits them and their health care needs ("Read the Law | HealthCare.gov", n.d).
In Title II named, The Role of Public Programs, helps those that
Affordable Care Act
Upper Iowa University
AFFORDABLE CARE ACT 2
Abstract
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is also known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) this law is the landmark health reform legislation passed by the 111th Congress and was signed into law on March 23, 2010. The legislation includes a long list of health-related provisions that began taking effect in 2010 and will continue to be rolled out over the next four years. Provisions are intended to extend coverage to millions of uninsured Americans, to implement measures that will lower health care cost and improve system efficiency, and to eliminate industry practices that include rescission and denial of coverage due to pre-existing conditions (Owcharenko, 2012). The impact of PPACA will have negative and positive affects across the all businesses, insurance companies, and healthcare organizations.
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On March 23, 2010, the Affordable Care Act was signed into effect by the president and was upheld by the Supreme Court on June 28, 2012 ("Read the Law | HealthCare.gov", n.d). The Affordable Care Act has 10 titles to the law and under each title are sections. This law has brought on much controversy and has many negative and positive impacts. There are also some very drastic changes that this law will help make for our country and their impacts can be either negative or positive.
In Title I named, Quality, Affordable Health Care for all Americans, helps Americans get the healthcare coverage they deserve ("Read the Law | HealthCare.gov", n.d). Those Americans that already have medical insurance that they are happy with will not be impacted by this Title; it’s those that don’t have insurance that will be affected. They will get to choose the insurance that best suits them and their health care needs ("Read the Law | HealthCare.gov", n.d).
In Title II named, The Role of Public Programs, helps those that
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