The recent approval of the Affordable Care Act will result in major changes for the…
The topics of health care and health care reform are two of the most highly debated topics in society today. The Obama Care Plan is at the center of the health care crisis. Obama Care is aimed at reinforcing the American system of health care. The main focus of Obama Care is to regulate the industry of health insurance and also reduce spending. Obama Care was signed into law on March 23, 2010. The primary goal of this health care reform plan is to make it possible to be able to provide health care to all U.S. Citizens. There are currently about 44 million Americans that are unable to get health insurance. Obama Care’s major elements was to expand Medicaid and Medicare, where they are able to offer health insurance to a much larger group of citizens. Obama Care also provides assistance to Americans that are unable to afford health care. Another important element of this plan is to provide better wellness and preventative services. The reasoning behind this is that if individuals are able to have regular preventative services then not only is it quicker to diagnose illnesses but the rate of recovery is better and thus the expenses are much lower. (Obamacarefacts, 2014).…
The United States health care system is evolving. Many changes have been made since the writing of this book to transform it to a managed care system from being a system with an indemnity plan that based on the patients’ needs. The cultural beliefs and values are not the only factors that drove this change. However, the economic factors and the related health care expenditures required the United Sates government to take measurement to improve the health care outcome by increasing the access to health care services and make it affordable to more…
Hello, my name is Grant Markley, and today I would like to take a few minutes of your time to discuss the affordable healthcare act, better known as obamacare. There is a great deal of misinformation regarding the act, which has lead to many misconceptions of it. In this speech I intend to shed light on the act and its provisions in relation to our current healthcare system.…
Obama Care, AKA the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010, reforms the health insurance industry and the American health care system as a whole. To the layman the information included in the over a thousand pages of legislature is very hard to decipher. I found myself searching for Obama care for dummies to try and make sense of the legal rhetoric. Once I got through it though the benefit and disadvantages are very clear. In this I will outline where we stand in America now, the benefits of Obama Care and finally, disadvantages…
Healthcare is a fast growing industry in America, so any changes that are enforced not only affect the industry but the entire nation. Any type of healthcare employee or patient will feel some consequence of these changes, even if they are minute. Since the healthcare industry is so large, America’s economy will also feel repercussions of change.…
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act also called the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law on March 23, 2010. It has been the source of many heated political debates and has been under scrutiny since its inception. Currently, 18 percent of our U.S. gross domestic product is spent on healthcare, that equals out to approximately 2.9 trillion dollars and we don’t have the quality care to show as the results. With the costs continually increasing and the lack of positive results, something has to change in our healthcare system. The Affordable Care Act is the cornerstone to help initiate these changes.…
The Affordable Care Act will cut the number of uninsured Americans by more than half. The insurance coverage will cover ninety-four percent of the American population, which reduces about thirty one million uninsured people. One of the substantial changes to our health care system includes having individuals carry health insurance and prohibiting insurers from denying health insurance coverage due to preexisting condition. It will change the focus of our nation’s health care system from treating sick people to prevention, increasing access to care and ensuing quality health care for everyone.…
health care institutions are getting hit hard from this, although the overall reform will create a better health care system for all Americans. Let’s look at some of the positives with the law.…
The United States is heavily watched around the world in terms of politics or any other action as it is one of the leading countries of the world. Recently, the United States caught the eye of the world in its recent debate of the health care reform. Most commonly referred to as “ObamaCare” the official name is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) or for short, the Affordable Care Act (ACA). President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010 signed the Affordability Care Act into law to reform the health care industry and it was later upheld by the supreme court on June 28th, 2012. “The goal of ObamaCare is to give more Americans access to affordable, quality health insurance, and to…
Health care reform has been a budding issue within the United States this past year, and problems continue to surface. At the beginning of this process, Americans wanted the government to ensure that all citizens would be able to have affordable and good health care, no matter what their financial situation. The price for health care was increasing at a rate that people could no longer afford it and a lot of people desperately wanted a universal health care systems like some of their neighboring countries. In a sense, change was needed, but how this change came about is the real issue…
Furthermore, the Affordable Care Act is one of the biggest changes to our Health care system since the introduction of Medicaid and Medicare. However, there still will be 29 million Americans who will still lack healthcare insurance even after the Affordable Care Act is fully instituted (Andrews,Darnell,Mcbride& Gerlert,2013) fundamental goals of the ACA are to decrease the cost of healthcare, increase quality of healthcare, services, and make healthcare assessable to all Americans, particularly the uninsured. One of the largest changes to healthcare through ACA is that everyone must have insurance this is the largest positive factor of the ACA (Hayes, 2011)…
In reading up on the subject of Obamacare, It seems that it is more negative feedback than positive. Most of the physcians sayt that the Affordable Care Act (ACA), took a terrible broken health care system and added a lot of burden on the physicians. The physician does not have to respond to the patient, now they have to respond to the federal bureaucracy. They have a love for medicine and when they are practicing they are in there element. Then the smile is turned upside down when they have to jump through hoops just to get paid. Not to mention that now they have the added non-clinical duties and paperwork which take up a lot of time. Which means they have to squeeze in more patients to cover that expense. As for the patients, their payments…
There is no doubt that the health insurance landscape of today’s society is drastically different than what our grandparents experienced decades ago. With health insurance reforms and the growth of a health insurance marketplace, the government hopes to ensure health coverage for more Americans than ever before. The health insurance paradigm has shifted from a privilege to a basic right, but it has not come without immense debate, discussions over the quality of care and its rising costs. The new reform proposed by the Obama administration to insure every American has sparked…
ObamaCare and the Healthcare System Medical and health insurance is a very helpful and needed aid in America. Although not…