Health And Health Care Act

- Commission Directive 2003/63/EC (brought into UK law by inclusion in the Medicines for Human Use (Fees and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2003)

The Affordable Care Act includes changes to Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance, and creates many conflicts and benefits around how it will affect health care in the future. Clearly, all items within the medical reform are connected, so that a positive impact in one area may inversely affect another. The primary change is the extension of health care coverage to the uninsured, but it comes with a cost. Costs include penalties, taxes, reduced medical access, and lower reimbursement rates for physicians and hospitals. The Affordable Care Act is conceived with a good purpose; as a result, everyone will now have access to affordable health care, although, “affordable” is not yet well defined. Health care providers will be able to continue their vocation of providing good care for our society, but in some cases, changes to insurance may still have a poor outcome.

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 came into force with crucial principles including new structures and arrangements in health care services to safeguard and strengthen the future of NHS and maintain the modernisation plan. In this Act, many new changes has been made to a number of existing Acts, National Health Services Act (NHS 2006), in order to enable health care system to tackle the existing challenges and also avoid any potential crisis in future. It has also introduced the proper allocation of NHS fund and budget, and improved the integrated care between NHS and social care services to promote patients’ choice in terms of delivering quality care.

The Affordable Healthcare Act makes healthcare and health insurance more affordable and more available to more Americans. It is able to do this by new consumer protections, rules and regulations on the healthcare industry. This is shown when creating a marketplace for subsidized insurance, and reforming and expanding public healthcare programs. These include Medicare and Medicaid. This act can also include measures to cut the growth in healthcare spending in the United States.

Escalating during the great recession and the drug epidemic, the rate of the uninsured and citizens with incomplete MH/SUD coverage escalated to cataclysmic proportions. Relatively, the economics of our nation were impacted by millions of American families affected by MH/SUD disorders that reduced their productivity and earnings potential. However, the fear that MH/SUD parity would further impact struggling businesses and increase the total costs of health care played a crucial role in delaying the passage of individual attempts at parity legislation. Naturally, amendments to a true mental health parity act were inspired by Republican opposition who were against government involvement in regulating health insurance.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a federal statute that was signed into law in America by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. It is divided into 10 titles.

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 Act began the launch of health care exchange and by January 2014 will be in full vigor. ACA is a new health care reform law that is also known as Obamacare. ACA is made up of four separate acts: Affordable Health Care of America Act,

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was implemented in March of 2010 by President Barak Obama. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as Obama care went into effect on January 1st of 2014. More than half of the United States of America was uninsured before the ACA was put into effect. The goal of the ACA is to provide those who fall in the “gap” with health insurance.

What is left is that we have many citizens who are mentally ill and are not receiving treatment. However the patients who are able to receive treatment are only able to have some treatment covered. Health insurers are responsible for covering the immensely large cost of substantial treatment, a mixture of medication and therapy; since therapy is highly priced, less reliable, and time consuming; patients typically do not receive treatment for therapy. Health insurers would much rather cover medication because it is cheaper, it heals patients faster, and it is more reliable than therapy. However, medication is not made to heal, but to only coax symptoms of a mental illness (Sandberg).

Health care has become an integral component in the lives of modern Americans. In recent history, President Barack Obama introduced a new health reform legislation known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. This act is detrimental to the social well-being and economic success of the American people as it raises insurance premiums, significantly increases taxes, and harms businesses. It damages the quality of health care, stunts economic growth, and causes decreased wages and unemployment. The reform is a hindrance to the advancement of the health care industry, and thus Obama’s policy position of health care is unacceptable and unsound.

The Patient Protection and Affordable care Act also known as Affordable Care Act, Obama Care and ACA is an act signed into law by the current president of the United States, Barack Obama in March 23, 2010. Beginning in 2014, any failure to purchase minimum coverage will result in a person being fined. Also included in the Act are individual mandate requirements, expanding public programs, health insurance exchanges, transition to private insurance, what is required of employers and cost and coverage estimates. I chose to write on this topic in support the Affordable Care Act, because as registered nurse working in the emergency room I have dealt with people that are not insured and therefore, were unable to afford healthcare. I wanted to learn more about and make the affordable Care Act work. I don 't think people should scrounge to get affordable healthcare even though sometimes it is not the best healthcare.

On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed comprehensive health reform, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), into law. The United States is at the beginning of a long overdue and much needed overhaul to the health care system. The changes made to the law by legislation, focuses on: provisions to expand public health coverage, an effort to control health care costs, initiatives to improve health care delivery system, and reorganization of spending under Medicare (Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, 2014). More than 90 changes were included in the law; some went into effect almost immediately such as: posting of caloric details at major chain restaurants, taxation on tanning, and more breastfeeding rooms and

In 2010, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). With this act in place, president Obama promised that he would make quality, affordable health care not a privilege, but a right. Before the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law, “over 30 million Americans were currently without health care coverage for themselves and their families.” Said Toni Scherling, a nurse practitioner at the North Memorial Hospital in Maple Grove Minnesota. Imagine how your life would be like if you were one of million Americans that needs medical coverage, but could not afford it.

On March 23rd, and March 30th, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the paperwork for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). This act is a law that was put into place to help make sure all Americans could have access to affordable, quality health insurance coverage. The ACA has now been available for five years with more than sixteen million people insured through it. “Over a period of several years of implementation that began in 2010 and will continue through 2019, the spectrum of the ACA provisions will change how health care is delivered and financed in ways that vastly exceed the impacts of Medicare and Medicaid.” (Sultz & Young, 2014, p.xxiv) The ACA is a law and in this paper, I will be discussing the major components of it which are Titles I-X and how it has improved the health care delivery system in the United States. This act is extremely important to Americans because it helps to make insurance affordable and keeps premiums down.

What are some words that come to mind when Americans think about health insurance in this day in age? Expensive, deductibles, out of pocket, mandatory, out of network, copayments? Those words sounds just about right. Well, thanks to the affordable care act hopefully those thoughts should and have changed. Maybe subsidy, assistance, affordable, for everyone would be some words that come to mind. All focusing on what some call Obama Care which is the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and officially called The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The ACA was designed to reform not only healthcare but health insurance industries as well. It is now a federal statue in the United States of America that was signed into law in March of 2010 by President Barack Obama. Although created 5 years ago, the major phase began in January of 2014. Hospitals and primary physicians were to turn their practices around financially and even their technology in order for better health outcomes and lower costs to come about all while improving their services. In other words, practices were to increase the quality of services that they provide and at a lower and affordable price for consumers. There were a lot of backlash and confusion that came from Americans because of the act. Yet, there are great outcomes and there are also things that can be better about the ACA. Let’s take a look at the beginning, present and even possibly the future.