The current issue that the government will have to face is what to do with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) given the recent presidential election outcome. The answer is not simple regarding whether the ACA should be replaced or repealed. The new president and congress will also have to focus on the costs of health care‚ driven by new drugs and treatments‚ an aging population‚ and how to preserve the Medicare program‚ whose current funding cannot be forever sustained. The ACA created subsidies and increased
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Contemporary Health Care Issue: The Affordable Care Act Mary Kennedy Grand Canyon University HCA 530 Healthcare Policies and Economics Professor Steve Klense Contemporary Health Care Issue: The Affordable Care Act Introduction More than 45 million Americans are uninsured. Even those that do have health insurance often face financial and other barriers when getting healthcare. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) removes most of these financial barriers (Kocher‚ Emanuel‚ & DeParle‚ 2010). The
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controversial topic for many years. Most people tend to think‚ assuming they live in the United States‚ that all citizens should have some form of access to health care. But in reality‚ many people are unable to afford health insurance so they end up going without health care because that in itself is also expensive. Even when the Affordable Care Act was put into place‚ people were still facing the lack of coverage due to the high cost of insurance‚ absence of employment providing health insurance‚ and people
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The Affordable Care Act (ACA)‚ also known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)‚ was enacted in 2010. It is an act currently in progress‚ that opens doors to many ethical issues and dilemmas. The act is designed to take effect in stages over a set of years. There are many provisions of this act‚ but the basic provisions are that health insurance providers will no longer be able to deny coverage to individuals with current or prior health issues and each policy provided by health
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The Affordable Care Act or ACA has been a very controversial law. The Affordable Care Act contains many benefits‚ particularly for low and middle income families and businesses. The Affordable Care Act also contains some obstacles for high earners‚ and larger firms that don’t insure their employees. Affordable Care Act is enjoyed mostly by pro low and middle income Americans‚ especially in states that expanded Medicaid eligibility. Since Affordable Care Act works on a sliding scale‚ Affordable Care
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The Affordable Care Act‚ Helping or Hurting? Merriam-Webster’s definition of socialism is “any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods”. The Affordable Care act permits the U.S. Government to strictly regulate the health care system‚ almost to the point of eventual monopolization. The act is also known as “Obamacare”‚ even though it is a program Democrats have sought to pass
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Key Components of Affordable Care Act Mary Kaiser HCS/455 March 16‚ 2015 Doris Chimera Key Components of Affordable Care Act The discussion for this paper addresses key elements of the Affordable Care Act. These areas include the following requirements for implementing this act among employers‚ employees on benefits and drawbacks of health insurance coverage. These areas will include coverage for the individual‚ businesses‚ expansion of coverage and what and who is covered under these types plans
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The biggest issue that Affordable Care Act influence people is that it create unbalance between health care spending and income growth. Increased costs for individuals‚ families‚ and businesses‚ resumption of excessive health care spending and middle-class taxation will be much higher and will be a huge burden not only for the nation but also for each small parties. “In fact‚ for the past 40 years real‚ per capita health care spending has been growing at twice the rate of growth of real‚ per capita
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available to all Americans and would be much more affordable.When the Affordable Care Act was established‚ there were 27 million previously uninsured people that would gain coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Thanks to this new healthcare establishment‚ “about 16.4 million Americans gained health care coverage and the uninsured rate had been reduced by more than a third “Health”. The first example was that when the Affordable Care Act was first released many people knew that this was exactly what they
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The Obama care Health Insurance is one of the most controversial‚ and horrific idea for the United States economy. The Affordable Care Act‚ implemented by former President Barack Obama‚ has put millions of people in debt and millions people in the United States are at risk of bankruptcy. The government forces people to have health insurance even if they do not want it. Young adults are also forced to heave health insurance‚ even though they might not need it because of their healthy lifestyle. Some
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