The Affordable Care Act It has been asked if healthcare is a right or privilege‚ with the Affordable Care Act‚ coming into play it would appear to be no choice in the matter. Everyone will have to have some type of insurance coverage or pay a penalty. Congress is having a hard time trying to decide how to fund on this bill. Will the bill help or hurt America? Some issues I see are how will it hurt the small business owner‚ will some Americans lose full time job status so that the business owner
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Understanding the Public Health and the Law On September 23‚ 2010 new reforms under the Affordable Care Act begin to bring to an end some of the worst abuses of the insurance industry. “These reforms will give Americans new rights and benefits‚ including helping more children get health coverage‚ ending lifetime and most annual limits on care‚ and giving patients access to recommended preventive services without cost-sharing (Turnock‚ 2010).” These reforms will apply to all new health plans
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THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT Impact of the Affordable Care Act The patient protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) is expected to have a major impact on the financing of healthcare‚ principally by expanding insurance coverage to approximately 32 million of the current 50.7 million uninsured by 2014. If the goal is reached‚ 95% of all Americans will have health insurance (Kovner& Knickman‚ 2011). The Affordable Care Act will expand coverage in two key ways: expanding Medicaid eligibility and
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Professor Iwanek Govt 2305 10/06/13 Executive Summary on The Affordable Care Act The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the new health care reform law otherwise known as ObamaCare. The ACA attempts to reform the healthcare system through affordable quality health insurance‚ and by reducing the increase of healthcare spending. Reforms include new benefits‚ rights and protections‚ rules for insurance companies‚ taxes‚ tax breaks‚ funding‚ spending‚ the creation of committees‚ education‚ new job creation
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Affordable Care Act: Anything but Affordable The Affordable Care Act is a piece of legislation that aims to extend healthcare coverage to millions of Americans. This bill has divided the nation and in some circles discussions end in bitter arguments. Those that support the bill feel it is the nation’s moral duty to grant everybody coverage‚ and many of those that oppose the bill are alarmed at the fiscal implications it brings. The Affordable Care Act was summarized by Avik Roy as follows: Some
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Affordable Care Act and the Rural American The United States in the past month has gone through a rollercoaster ride of events‚ from government shutdown to fiscal cliff deadline. All of these fall short to the main focus of this paper. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) will affect every person in the United States however; I will focus on the benefits of the ACA on the rural American. The ACA was passed in 2010. On October 1st‚ 2013 the Patient Protection and Affordable Care
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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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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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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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known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)‚ “ObamaCare” has many functions that are unknown to the public and because of this ignorance many people do not approve of it. As you continue reading‚ the facts about ObamaCare will be presented and then you can make an informed decision on whether or not you agree with the public policy. The Affordable Care Act was signed into law on March 23‚ 2010 by President Barack Obama to reform the health care industry. It was later upheld by the
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