1. What is the name of your chosen policy? a. Official Title: i. H.R.2 (111th): Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act b. Other Titles: i. amend title XXI of the Social Security Act 2. When was it introduced? a. This bill was introduced by Rep. Pallone, Frank Jr (D-NJ-6), on January 13, 2009). 3. What healthcare system issue or “problem” does your policy attempt to address? a. President Obama signed into law the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA) on February 4, 2009. The new law is designed to provide coverage to large numbers of children that are currently uninsured and to improve their quality of care. Key to this legislation is that it reinforces the Children’s Health Insurance …show more content…
ii. Authorizes new tools, such as Express Lane eligibility, to enable and improve the enrollment of those children already eligible, but uninsured. These new tools also have a performance bonus system so that states may get additional federal financial help if they significantly increase enrollment of eligible uninsured children in Medicaid. They would also have to adopt measures to streamline enrollment and renewal in both Medicaid and CHIP. The law applies current Medicaid citizenship requirement rules to the CHIP system. It also has new electronic options for documenting citizenship status in both Medicaid and CHIP. This change would cut the red tape obstacles for low-income citizen children to enroll in coverage (retrieved: congress.gov, 12/08/17). iii. Authorizes states to have the choice to eliminate the five-year waiting period currently in place on lawful immigrant children and pregnant women in Medicaid and CHIP. (retrieved: congress.gov, 12/08/17). iv. Authorizes a new, explicit statutory option to cover pregnant women with CHIP funds. (retrieved: congress.gov, 12/08/17). v. Reforms the current CMS directive and gives the states the flexibility to set the income eligibility level for children in their state (retrieved: congress.gov, 12/08/17). vi. Reforms the law and eliminates the authority of the
Expanding Medicaid under the new Affordable Care Act, or Obama Care as it has been dubbed, is a serious issue affecting not only the 47.5 million citizens on it according the to the U.S. Census Bureau (2012), but also 5.7 million more struggling United States Citizens needing medical care (2014). By expanding Medicaid, it would mean access to affordable health insurance, preventative care and new jobs created. On An 6-3 decision, those incomparable court upheld a discriminating some piece of the moderate mind Act, memorable human services change that the President marked under theory five a considerable length of time agnus dei. Now, a large number about Americans who got secured over wellbeing protection marketplaces could sit tight
The HEAL for Immigrant Women and Families Act of 2017 is seeking to expand access to health care services from the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to lawful permanent residents (green card holders) and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) program recipients (H.R. 2788, 2017). The act is intended to break down barriers for women and their families by expanding the definition of “lawfully present” instituted under the Social Security Act in the Medicaid-Section 1903. By amending subparagraph (A) to expand the definition of “lawfully present” to include “such an individual who is granted deferred action or other federally authorized presence other than as a nonimmigrant” (H.R. 2788, 2017). Currently, from the 6.5 million lawful non-citizen women in the US from the ages of 15 to 44, 36% are uninsured in comparison to the 11% uninsured naturalized citizens and 10% the US-born citizen women in the same category (Guttmacher Institute , 2016). When taking a closer look at these women, researchers found that 51% live below the federal poverty level (FDL) and are often ineligible for health care programs such as Medicaid (Guttmacher Institute , 2016). By expanding the definition in the subparagraph (A) of the Social Security Act of 1903, it would expand eligibility for all federally funded health care programs through the ACA and cause the five-year gap to be
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), commonly referred to as “Obamacare,” completely changed the American healthcare system. The purpose of the bill was to lower the cost of healthcare, improve health outcomes, and lower the national uninsured rate. To lower the cost of healthcare, the bill provides federal subsidies for government-sponsored healthcare plans to any person or family whose income is between one and four times the federal poverty level and is not covered by their employer, Medicaid, or Medicare (Neporent). In addition, the bill allows children to stay on their parents’ insurance plans until they are 26. Previously, children could only be on their parents’ plans until age 19 ("Is the Affordable Care Act Working?").
On March 23, 2010, Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law. The Affordable Care Act is also known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is widely known as ObamaCare. ObamaCare is our nation’s current Health Care plan. In this essay, I will be going into the new rules which regard health care, why we made health care more affordable, and what makes it so controversial.
Working to keep children healthy is something that all governmental opponents can agree on. Medicaid and CHIP together provides health care coverage for low-income families. Both of these programs are jointly financed by the states and the federal government, but are largely administered by the states within extensive federal rules. Funding for this program is set to expire at the end of September of 2015. Although these programs differ in many ways, including financing, benefits and cost-sharing, it’s very beneficial to many children whose parents make too much money to qualify for Medicaid, but not enough for private health insurance.
The purpose of The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is to increase access and make it more affordable for all Americans. Unfortunately, the US health care delivery system lacks the ability to plan, direct, and coordinate from a central agency making it difficult for citizens to obtain health coverage. For that reason, The Affordable Care Act in 2010 became the most extensive health care reform in US history with its main objective to reduce the number of uninsured. The ACA permitted some standards in the health care delivery system to achieve universal coverage. Some examples were authorizing health insurances to start covering children and young adults below the age of 26 under their parents’ health insurance plans also allowing the law to lower
When President Barack Obama ran for office in 2008 he vowed to revolutionize the healthcare environment as it stood. With overwhelming election resuts Obama took the helm as the leader of our nation’s Medicaid program and immedialty begain lobbying for legislation to expand. Not since 1965 had our nation seen such a demeand from a president to change the landscape of healthcare for consumers and providers alike. One of the crucial elements of The Patient Protection and Afordable Care Act (Obamacare) was the need for states to expand eligibility to Medicaid in a bid aimed at improving the health of the welfare of the country Medicaid is a component of what the federal government enacted in the year 1965 that seeks to finance the delivery of better and affordable health care services to those designated “needy families” and to children. The program required states to expand the eligibility criteria to 138 percent of the federal government poverty levels to allow for the increased coverage of the children and an increase in the number of low-income earners. However, the Affordable care Act made the decision to expand the eligibility criteria the discretion of the States resulting in different state level governments opting for different approaches as some chose to expand while others decided not to expand. The subject is essential since it provides a clear insight into the effects policies pose to the healthcare sector and how people are affected. This study also allows one
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), also known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law on March 23, 2010 by President Barack Obama. Providing reliable and high quality medical care was the main purpose of this bill. This is a comprehensive law that would allow increase access to care, promote health and control costs. The provision that would be discussed is Section 2714, which is the Extension of Dependent Coverage and is found under Title 1-Quality, Affordable Health Care for all American, under Subtitle A- Immediate Improvements in Health Care Coverage for All Americans. (Compilation of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, 2010, p. 34). Under Section 2714, provision was made to allow dependent coverage
774 to the House, and on October 25, 2009, H.R. 3963 was considered with one hour general debate. After the debate, the bill was reported back to the House Committees with amendments and was passed with Yeas and Nays of 265-142, and 46 Present4 Roll Call no. 1009. The bill was passed by the House as Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007 Support for injured Servicemembers Act.
The Affordable Care Act requires health insurance providers—including both health insurance companies and companies that administer self-insured employer health plans on behalf of the employer (third party administrators)—to provide certain preventative services to women without cost. 42 U.S.C. § 300gg-13(a)(4) (2015). Congress delegated the task of deciding which kinds of preventative care would be provided to the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). In making its determination, HRSA consulted the Institute of Medicine (IOM), which ultimately decided that insurers must provide “coverage without cost sharing” for “[a]ll Food and Drug Administration approved contraceptive methods, sterilization procedures, and patient education
This is to improve care and demand excellence by medical communities to all individuals especially medicaid and medicare people. This will provide a better patient satisfactory of servies rendered. The program will allow small community individuals on medicaid to receive emergency services such as ground or air ambulance. (Responsible Reform for Middle Class, 2010). This act will allow for a more accurate,faster payment and bonus reinversement for all parties providing excellent services. Chronic disease individuals will be provided better education and supervision of medication and drug manufactures must provide a discount on brand name medications. (Responsible Reform for Middle Class, 2010).
Officials from Medicaid and the Connector (Massachusetts’ health insurance exchange), with the blessing of then Governor Deval Patrick, scraped the failed system and restarted a rebuild with a new vendor. In addition the Governor sought federal permission to stop mandatory annual eligibility redeterminations for those on Medicaid, and set up “temporary coverage” in the Medicaid program that would be extended to anyone that signed up regardless of income level, an unprecedented and likely illegal
After “decades of political wrangling over proposals for universal health care” (Thide 2012, 359), Congress passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and President Obama signed it into law on March 23, 2010. Thide (2012) calls the act “Congress’s solution to a complex market failure” (360).
Since the initiation of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, Americans have been put back in charge of their individual health care. Under this new law, a health insurance marketplace provides a haven for individuals without insurance to gain coverage. Just this year, citizens found out early whether they qualified for Medicare or the CHIP formally known as the Children’s Health Insurance Program. So much is to be learned about the Affordable Care act and this paper provides the roles of the different governmental branches, along with other important factors associated with this law.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), commonly called Obama care, is a United States federal statute signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. Together with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, it represents the most significant government expansion and regulatory overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. Guaranteed issue will require policies to be issued regardless of any medical condition, and partial community rating will require insurers to offer the same premium to all applicants of the same age and geographical location without regard to gender or most pre-existing conditions. It requires that all individuals not covered by an employer sponsored health plan, Medicaid, Medicare or other public insurance programs, secure an approved private-insurance policy or pay a penalty. According to this system, a child would stay under their parents insurance until they turn twenty-six. The non-participating employers/ citizens, health