Notwithstanding sweeping changes in the area of preexisting conditions under the new Health Care Reform Act of 2010‚ should individuals with preexisting conditions be able to purchase health insurance at the same cost as those without such conditions? Why or why not? I believe everyone including people with preexisting conditions should pay the same amount for insurance. Insurance coverage are there for the patients’ needs and people who need to be seen by a doctor more often are those with a pre-existing
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In the United States there are nearly 12 million undocumented immigrants that are denied affordable access to healthcare (Rosen‚ 2012). In 2010 President Barack Obama signed into law The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) with the intention to expand economical healthcare to the millions of uninsured residents across the United States. However‚ this law excludes undocumented immigrants from receiving health insurance from the Marketplace‚ Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance
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induced changes in the effect and availability of affordable health insurance and access to care. According to Whitman‚ the fact that the ACA law ever passed Congress is an accomplishment in itself (n.d.‚ Slide 40). However‚ the ACA has also generated both disadvantages and advantages since its induction‚ which is to be expected with the enactment of any new law into the American society. The most significant effect that the ACA has on assessing affordable health insurance is the elimination of screening
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The Evolution of Private Health Insurance and Why the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the Future of Health Care One of the most hotly debated topics in the past two years has been health care reform. An effort by President Obama was successful and in March 2010‚ the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or PPACA was signed into law. This law aims to reform the entire U.S. health care delivery and financing system. In this paper‚ I will discuss how health insurance has evolved
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Policy Process Part I Women’s health care needs will always maintain a policy status as technology and changes in medicine or services occur. As long as women continue to dominate stakeholder status‚ reforms of programs are very much in need so that every women regardless of status can receive quality care without high cost‚ restrictions‚ or refusals for pre-existing conditions “because being a women is not a pre-existing condition” (KaiserEDU.org‚ 2012a‚ p. 1). So to understand the processes
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Throughout American history congress has had to resolve problems that arose nation wide. Pell Grants‚ created in 1972‚ and the Affordable Care Act of 2010 are just two of the legislations created to solve some of the United States economic problems. Although these two solutions were both initiated to boost America’s economy and to support low income families‚ the reason for the intervention of the government and their results differ. Affording a post high school education has always been a struggle
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Making Health Care Affordable: Lack of insurance in the United States leads to unnecessary deaths‚ loss of work‚ and unemployment due to disabilities‚ driving the country into debt taking on the emergency room fees piled up by the uninsured not being able to pay their bills‚ therefore‚ America desperately needs to implement a universal health care program like the health care programs in other developed nations around the world. Health care in a developed nation such as the United States of America
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PROS The Affordable Care Act has been the viable solution for refining and offering quality and affordable health care for all those who have long been excluded out of the healthcare system. For this paper‚ the most influential of these benefits will be addressed. Those benefits include the realization of more citizens gaining access to affordable healthcare‚ pre-existing health conditions no longer impeding healthcare coverage‚ and the improved quality of patient care. More Americans Have
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for new policy or change in existing policy is floated‚ it becomes the responsibility of a legislator to form this idea as a bill and that is where the formal policy process begins. The trigger for the passing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 came from a sustained movement and public awareness campaigns by the organizations of community health workers in Massachusetts which focused on spreading awareness in public on the expansion of access to preventive services‚ reduction
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Unaffordable Health Care Act Our current President‚ Barack Obama‚ is attempting to create a healthcare law that would require all Americans to purchase a healthcare plan. It is called the “Affordable Healthcare Act” or commonly known on the street as “Obama Care”. While it would be nice to have every US citizen own healthcare‚ there are many issues and problems that have arisen with the plan. Many US citizens are against the law for various reasons‚ while there are others who believe the law would
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