The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Alicia Rodgers HSA 505 – Health Services Planning and Marketing Dr. Gwendolyn Francavillo October 23‚ 2011 Abstract There have many attempts to reconstruct our nation’s health care system. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act‚ better known as Health Care Reform‚ is a federal law that was passed on March 23‚ 2010. This statute was passed in order to guarantee medical care and insurance coverage to all Americans; reduce costs of coverage;
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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 Name Tutor Institution Course Date Introduction The numerous scandals that involved corporate and investors in the year 2002 such as Enron‚ WorldCom and Tyco came as shock to many investors in the United States. Many investors lost their money to fraudulent activities by accountability corporate making them loose confidence in financial statements provided. Such loses created concern within the government prompting them to overhaul all the
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Privacy Protection Act of 1998 “This legislation grew out of the fact that by 1998 roughly ten million American children had access to the Internet‚ and at the same time‚ studies indicated that children were unable to understand the potential effect of revealing their personal information online and parent failed to monitor their children’s use of the Internet.” (Koby) Due to the technology available today children of all ages have access to the internet. In the 1960’s the internet became a
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authority has to reply back within 30 days with proper explanation. It gives every citizen a fundamental right to seek information from any government department. The Law is applicable to all constitutional authorities‚ including the executive‚ legislature and judiciary; any institution or body established or constituted by an act of Parliament or a state legislature. RTI Act not only covers the executives rather the judiciary and legislature are also under its strict regulations. There
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Davis Weiss The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a federal statute that was signed into law in America by President Barack Obama on March 23‚ 2010. It is divided into 10 titles. The bill contains provisions that will go into effect on June 21‚ 2010 and September 23‚ 2010. Also‚ the additional provisions will go into effect in 2014. Title I of H.R. 3590 will ensure quality affordable health care for all Americans by eliminating discriminatory practices by health insurers such
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USA Patriot Act Name: Number: Course: Lecturer: Date: Abstract With the developments and the recent attacks on the internet‚ there has been a need to ensure that cyber attacks and terrorism have been the most common concerns for government regulations. After the numerous attacks and cyber attacks that are common on the internet‚ there has been the need to have laws and acts to control these terrorist acts. This is the reason why the USA patriot Act was formulated. The main intention
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Intro Domestic violence is an issue facing men and women around the world in australia it is categorised in the Domestic and Family Violence Protection Act 2012. Unfortunately Statistics show that 1 in 4 women will experience domestic violence at some point in their lives. Anyone can be effected but the age of the victim‚ race and gender impacts the statistical risk of domestic abuse but can affect anyone. Measures have been implemented to try and protect the most vulnerable from this threat but
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Confidentiality Task 1: What confidentiality means:- Confidentiality means keeping information given by or about an individual in the course of a professional relationship secure and safe from others. There are eight principals of good practice and anyone processing personal information must comply with them. The eight principals of good practice • fairly and lawfully processed • processed for limited purposes • adequate‚ relevant and not excessive • accurate and up to date •
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H.R. 3590 Patient Protection Act and Affordable Care Act 2010 H.R. 3590 is intended to expand access to health insurance‚ reform the health insurance market to provide additional consumer protections‚ and improve the health care delivery system to reduce costs and produce better outcomes. The bill would expand insurance coverage to 94% yet leaving 24 million Americans without insurance coverage‚ at the same time suppose to improve the functioning of the individual and small group insurance markets
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Data protection act 1989 The Data protection act is structured to protect personal information that is held in paper and electronic format and should never be disclosed‚ except in special cases and for legitimate purposes‚ especially if it is to do with government instructions that are authorised by law. The health and social care services naturally holds lots of sensitive and personal information about individuals. Therefore it is vital that this information should only be used for legitimate
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