The federal statute known as the Affordable Care Act‚ has been touted as a positive development towards healthcare in the United States. However‚ there are many downsides to the passing of this act. One of the most glaring disadvantages to this act is the cost associated with it. Also‚ implementation of it is widely contingent upon the successes of the plan in the various states and communities. In other words‚ it will be an experiment. Even among proponents of this legislation‚ there is great uncertainty
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Affordable health care should be available and affordable for everyone in the United States‚ because not everyone has money to pay out of pocket subscription. That’s why it’s called “affordable” health care. This makes it fair for everyone in the country and not just the ones that have money‚ but then again not everyone has the money to pay for healthcare‚ and not everyone has the money to pay for things out of pocket like that so that’s why the government should come up with the agency for people
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The Health Care Reform Bill is legislation that would change health care in the United States. This bill calls for the creation of health insurance exchanges that would allow individuals and small businesses to purchase insurance on a sliding scale based on income. These state based exchanges would be subsidized by the federal government the amount subsidized would again be based on income. It calls for some of the funding to come from a tax on investment income of 3.8%‚ an excise tax on high end
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is one of the most substantial reforms in Medicare since 1965. This is now considered the law of the land according to Douglas Holtz-Eaton. The PPACA portrays a “coverage first” strategy. “Sadly‚ a review a of the state’s experience bodes poorly for the future of national reform.” (Point/Counterpoint 177) There are two major driving factors in which could propose a threat for this reform. The first factor is it costs too much. Many decades
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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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The Advantages and Disadvantages of Governments providing Free Health Care Every government provides services for their citizens. One of the key areas governments focus their attention on is public health care. Citizens have the benefit of receiving free health care services whenever they need it. Yet‚ everything that is provided for free has its drawbacks. There are disadvantages as well as advantages associated with free health care services provided by governments for their citizens. Firstly
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Discuss their health care system’s essential features Dominican Republic VS United States Vanessa Fantauzzi Student St. Petersburg College Research supported by http://www.globalsurance.com/resources/dominican-republic/ The Dominican Republic shares the Caribbean island of Hispaniola with Haiti. The island was reached
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The Affordable Care Act was signed into a law on March 23‚ 2010‚ by President Barack Obama. The United States‚ after long years of demanding Ever since the enactment of Medicaid and Medicare in 1965‚ this law is considered the most important administrative system of the United States health care system. This law was planned to help avoid terrible health care costs to the people who did not provide health insurance for themselves. The terrible health care costs can destroy the credit scores of the
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Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of unisexual schools. Boy schools and girl schools shoot up very rapidly both in foreign countries and at home. In China‚ girl schools have enjoyed a very long history since one hundred years ago. Many sociologists and educationalists present their views on this issue from different angles. In this essay‚ I will zero in on the advantages and disadvantages of the controversial phenomenon. (60 words) Some parents prefer to send their children to boy schools
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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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