The Affordable Care Act is the comprehensive health care reform law enacted in March 2010. Also‚ known as “Obomacare”‚ the Affordable Care Act has three primary goals. These goals include making affordable health insurance available to more people‚ expand Medicaid program to cover all adults with income below 138 percent of the federal poverty level‚ and support innovative medical care delivery methods designed to lower the costs of health care generally.1 The reason that the affordable care act included
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Affordable Care Act: Impact on Providers Quality vs. Quantity Abstract The Affordable Care Act’s proposal was to make sure that health insurance coverage is affordable for individuals‚ families‚ and businesses and decrease the amount of uninsured individuals. . Much of the impact of this act will begin when the major coverage provisions take effect in 2014. Providers will experience an increased burden in many aspects of their medical profession including new legal
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United States healthcare system over the years. However‚ the most recent attempt that has been implemented is the Affordable Care Act‚ under the Obama Administration. As a result‚ since 2010 changes have been implemented to reform the United States healthcare industry‚ which affects the insurers‚ providers‚ and the subscribers in different ways. Consequently‚ the Affordable Care Act does not have full support from everyone and it faces numerous challenges (Bodenheimer & Grumbach‚ 2012). Overall
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South Carolina ’s Tax Changes What Will They Mean? Donald L. Schunk Act 388 is not good news‚ either for our pubiic sctioois or for our iong-term tax rates. I n 2006‚ the South Carolina General Assembly passed major legislation affecting both the tax structure and the way public education is funded in South Carolina. The legislation - Act 388 - contains three major components. The first involves raising the state sales tax from 5 percent to 6 percent effective June 1‚ 2007. The
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This holds true because in 2008 George W. Bush signed the GINA Act‚ which is the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act. This act protects Americans from receiving discrimination from employers and health providers because of the genetics they have received from family traits. Pre-2008 it was quite common to see people with inherited conditions
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The Affordable Care Act has its good meaning in providing access to health care system‚ prohibiting insurance companies in denying healthcare coverage to ill people and increasing the healthcare cost‚ and promoting Medicaid expansion to people with incomes up to 133% of the federal poverty level. However‚ there are many flaws‚ such as personal mandate and penalty and social injustice‚ in passing this law. Many people may believe that the Congress has a power to declare personal mandate to have health
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August 26‚ 2015 Professor X Healthcare and Small Business My paper will focus on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) in the impact it has on small businesses and their employees. This legislation was created to give all Americans access to affordable and quality health care coverage‚ regardless to any pre-existing conditions. Patients not only have control of health care choices‚ but they share the responsibility of cost. The reason why I chose this topic is that I was an extended
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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 The Supreme Court ruled on June 28‚ 2012 that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 also known as the ObamaCare Act is to be upheld‚ even the controversial parts‚ where people without health insurance will have to pay a fine starting in 2014. The ObamaCare Act was started to “help reduce overall health care costs by making services available to 32 million who currently cannot get health insurance”(useconomy.about.com‚ part of
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pollution is a huge problem in North Carolina. We know this is a problem because “in 2012‚ North Carolina ranked 8th in the country for our high levels of toxic air pollution from coal-fired power plants” (“NC’s Air Quality”). Besides coal-fired power plants‚ transportation‚ paper mills‚ and industrial facilities also play a part in our air pollution (“NC’s Air Quality”). “North Carolina was a leader in protecting public health by establishing air toxics rules in the early 1980’s prior to federal oversight
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poverty in North Carolina now!!!!! More than 17% of people that live in North Carolina are in poverty or Homeless. Can you really help them get off the streets? Because of the Brunswick family organization‚ people are getting off the streets. In 2010 the Organization took 1006 people off the streets.There are 4% of families that cannot afford children so they were adopted or given away. As these years come on poverty is keep getting doubled. Around 1.4 percent of Families that live in north Carolina
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