Healthcare Reform: It’s a right‚ not a privilege. New words are coined all of the time. There is one that spread like wildfire when President Barack Obama was first elected‚ “Obamacare‚” also known as The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. This has been one of the prime issues during the last two elections because it is basically performing a radical and invasive surgery on our current health care system. Basically this entails extending affordable and same health insurance options to
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What is obmacare? ObamaCare is the unofficial name for The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act which was signed into law on March 23‚ 2010. Background of the topic The United States spends 17 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) on health care‚ by far the most of any nation in the world. Moreover‚ the rate of health care spending is rapidly outstripping the rate of growth of our economy‚ so that by 2080 health care spending is projected to account for 40 percent of the U.S. economy
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care program‚ and who opt out federal insurance care program will not be penalized”( PPACA‚ 2010 ). According to this provision‚ I firmly consider that everyone can choose to out of Obamacare without penalty. In my personal point of view‚ I really admire this provision. I always considered everyone should join Obamacare before‚ but now‚ I know it is not mandatory. This provision can absolutely represent the
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Something has been pulled out of the Affordable Care Act and‚ “It gives states just enough power over insurance marketplaces and the Medicaid expansion to continue
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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) also known as ObamaCare‚ has several provisions that are intended to find solutions to underlying issues in the United States as to how the health care is delivered to patients and how the health care provided is paid for. These previsions made in the ACA focus on three broad areas: testing new delivery models and spreading successful ones‚ encouraging the shift toward payment based on the value of care provided‚ and developing resources for system wide improvement.
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other changes‚ these are the following benefits of having the Affordable Health Care Act in place; Health care coverage for uninsured Americans. Through a combination of creating the health insurance marketplace and encouraging the states to expand Medicaid‚ millions of Americans without health insurance now have access to affordable coverage. No matter the situation‚ people will be
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revenue comes from individual policies adn companies. They aren ’t worried about their revenue or impact on their business becasue of this. The articles go on to say that most americans will purchase insurance through the marketplace exchange (Obamacare) by the year 2020 and most of that will happen through private employers. The only problems people will run into are if they need Mental Health care. Mental Health services will begin to be harder to find. The reason for this is there will be
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HIlary Clinton VS. Donald Trump Firstly‚ I shall be discussing about the policies and decisions which are to be implemented by each of them once they win the presidential elections.Finally‚ I will conclude by giving my opinion on who should win the elections accompanied with few facts from reputed Economists and Officialized Policies. Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born on October 26‚ 1947) is an American politician who was the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001‚ the 67th United
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consequences. Affordable Care Act provides health insurance provisions to the 32 million uninsured Americans. In the recent edition of New England Journal of Medicine‚ President Obama wrote “Supporters and detractors alike refer to the law as Obamacare. I don ’t mind‚ because I do care. And because
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We all need to understand this: When Trump or Paul Ryan say they want to replace the ACA with "Health Savings Accounts" (HSAs)‚ they are also saying they want to replace Obamacare or Medicare or Medicaid with YOU paying for your healthcare. That means YOU pay for chemotherapy... YOU pay for all surgeries and hospitalization... YOU pay for all your family’s doctor visits‚ urgent care‚ ER visits‚ and prescription drugs out-of-our-pocket. A Health Savings Account is just a tax-free way for you to save
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