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 over time and how the PPACA is the future
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Argument against a cap on reward of damages The tort system was created to summarize compensation methods and amounts for wrongs and harms committed by one party to another. Tort law‚ in essence‚ aims to offer the damaged party a chance to restore their state back to its point of origin; in other words‚ the point of tort law is to place a financial obligation on an individual who causes harm to another party. The decision to put a cap on damages is not just harmful‚ but also makes it very
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reasonable quality measures are vital‚ how to interpret and use quality information in a meaningful way‚ and how to present useful and actionable information to consumers‚ according to a new Policy Analysis from the National Institute for Health Care Reform (NIHCR) (Retrieved from Cassil A. & Cross D.‚ 2013). As U.S. healthcare costs are persistently high and rising‚ “payers are incorporating clinical quality measurement into health
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Future Obama care will provide affordable health insurance for all United States citizens and reduce the growth in healthcare spending. The reason so many Americans are without healthcare is due to the high cost and access of insurance. Healthcare reform has been evolving throughout centuries. In the early 1920s insurance did not exist and many Americans were paying out of pocket. Healthcare was less costly because doctors were not aware of many diseases that we are aware of now. When diseases
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predicting the upcoming years. There are many questions individuals ask‚ such as will the premium and deductible be affordable? How will it affect the health care spending? And will it reduce health care cost? After reviewing the article Health Care Reform 2 it describes important issues with the Obamacare. The article states the Obamacare will not reduce health care spending because the Obamacare the achievement source will begin next year. However‚ it does not show the government how successful the
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death penalty citing racial bias‚ failure to deter crime‚ widespread errors‚ and humanitarian objections. But the Republicans Overwhelmingly support it and the Democrats have Lukewarm support for it another agenda is Electoral Reform the green party Supports electoral reform including Instant Runoff Voting and public financing of elections. Open debates and the Republicans & Democrats say Works for us‚ why change anything. Global Warming is another agenda that is widely discussed in politics and the
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Physiology: The Unity of Form and Function (5th ed.). New York‚ NY: McGraw Hill. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (n.d.). Historical Highlights. Retrieved from http://www.hhs.gov/about/hshist.html White House. (n.d.). Understanding the Reforms. Retrieved from http://www.whitehouse.gov/healthreform/healthcare-overview#healthcare-menu
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Health Care Policy The many issues that the United States faces are the economy‚ health care and laws. All of these issues tie into one another because if the economy is bad‚ people have a hard time paying for health insurance and the new laws and policies make it where it is necessary for individuals to have health insurance. Law makers are forced to make decisions based on the facts they are given and these types of decisions are made for the people of the United States. Is it fair? Is it just
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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) signed into law by president Obama on March 23‚ 2010 is arguably the most extensive reform of health care law ever to be enacted in the U.S. It will impact the way professionals practice health care‚ the way insurance companies handle health care as a product‚ and the way consumers purchase and use health care as a service. The Affordable Health Care Act is primarily aimed at reducing the number
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Despite the well-established Canadian healthcare system‚ leading experts in the field are debating on the upcoming future of the healthcare system and the possible need for reform. With our aging society‚ specialist predict the health care system to cost $219 billion in 2015‚ a 1.6% increases from 2014‚ which will continue to rise along with the number of patients. The increasing costs of the Canadian healthcare system are no longer financially sustainable by the government. Therefore‚ a solution
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