Health Care Act Of The United States

On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Healthcare bill into law. There has been much controversy over this Affordable Healthcare Act before and since it was signed into law. It was estimated that 30 million people would sign up for the new healthcare and that the healthcare industry would need a bigger workforce. Within hospitals across the United States there is already a shortage of nursing and medical staff. What will this new law mean for hospitals in their declining health care professionals? In what other ways will this healthcare law impact hospitals across the United States? This paper will attempt to explore some of the realities and possibilities in greater depth.

The Health Care Reform Act was designed to benefit the citizens of the United States. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, 3.1 million more young adults have health insurance on their parent’s plan, three million seniors have received a 50 percent discount on their prescription drugs, and millions of Americans now have access to no-cost preventive services to help them stay healthy. Abusive insurance practices are becoming a thing of the past. Additionally, the Affordable Care Act helps small businesses with the cost of providing health insurance for their employees and helps doctors and other health providers care for their patients more effectively. (http://www.whitehouse.gov/healthreform/relief-for-americans-and-businesses)

Affordable health care for everyone, sounds great for the citizens that have been affected or know someone that has been affected by bills that are left behind after treatment. However, there is a great deal of flaws with this. “As of 2014 all citizens of the U.S. were expected to be insured with minimal health care or face fines during the tax season of 2015, with the exception that they meet certain requirements” (Lawson 117). The PPACAs intention is to reduce the cost of health care insurance making it accessible for the American public, to decrease the national deficit, and to promote a healthier America. Little does the government know is that what will come out of this act is going to be worse. Is the Affordable Care Act going to

A "qualified health plan" under the Affordable Care Act may not include pre-existing condition exclusions. People with chronic conditions may not be denied coverage because of their illnesses and insurance companies may not cancel a policy should a person become ill.

All people utilize health care services at one point or another. All federal policies that intend to reform health care will affect the lives of all citizens. Currently the United States spends the highest amount on health care with the one of the lowest health outcomes compared other developed countries. In 2010, $8,233 per person was spent on health care, but with a life expectancy of 78.7 years (Kane, 2012). As a response to the high health care cost and low health care outcomes, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), or most colloquially known as Obamacare. ACA was designed to address some of the issues that prevent people from receiving health insurance and transitioning from a privatized

People who are not covered by health insurance in the United States are termed as uninsured and it is a primary concern to the health care sector. According to the Census Bureau carried in 2012, more than 40 million people in America were uninsured with the number of uninsured children being 6.6 million. However the number of uninsured has dropped from 2016 due to expansion in Medicaid eligibility and the establishment of health insurance exchanges after the patient protection and affordable (Obamacare) care act was passed. As of July 2014, Commonwealth Fund reported additional 9.5 had enrolled to health insurance which includes about 5% of the working population. Although the rate of the uninsured adults has dropped there still exists a big number of people who need to be insured.

Health care expenditures in the United States are currently about 18 percent of GDP, and this share is expected to continue to rise with the share of GDP devoted to health care in the United States projected to reach 34 percent by 2040 (CEA, 2009). U.S. spending on healthcare is greater than any other developed country, yet unlike others which provide near universal coverage, the United States still has 46 million uninsured (Godell, 2008). For

Over the past 11 weeks in class we have discussed both the good and the bad of health care in the U.S. In The Healing of America, it discussed America’s health care system more in a comparison to other countries. In the book, it discusses how different systems operate and what makes them better than the US system. Keeping in mind this was written before the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was put into placed, there were still some good ideas and negative ideas I think come from the other developed countries.

Health care costs in the United States account for a large portion of the national expenditure. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), per capita national health expenditures totaled $9,255 and total national health care expenditures totaled $2.9 trillion in 2013 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2013).

Rising health care cost is a nationwide problem in the United States (U.S.). In the U.S., more money is spent on the health care than any other country in the world. In 2012, the overall national spending on healthcare in the U.S. was $2.8 trillion, which is about 17 percent of total economic output (Peter G. Peterson Foundation [PGPF], 2014). Several government organizations predict that the healthcare disbursements are expected to rise to 22 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by the year 2039 (PGPF, 2014). Even though the U.S. has the priciest health care system in the world, it ranks lowest among the other wealthiest nations. There are many underlying causes for the high healthcare costs. Some of the main reasons for upsurges in healthcare

U.S. health care spending grew 5.3 percent in 2014, reaching $3.0 trillion or $9,523 per person. As a share of the nation's Gross Domestic Product, health spending accounted for 17.5 percent.

According to the OECD (2017) the healthcare spending in the United States in 2013 had increased about 1.5%, but had lower level in the crisis category. Then looking at the GDP in the United States in 2013 increased about 16.4%. The per capita in the United States spent an average of about

The United States spends more money on healthcare then any other country in the world. Many Americans are without sufficient health care, according the researchers at Aetna (2016) it is estimated that 26 percent’s of American families will have a problem paying their medical bills and 58 percent of Americans have been reported of not receiving or delaying care in the past five years. The increase cost of health insurance premiums is a contributing factor to this phenomenon. Compared to other countries, United States’ premiums are much higher. One reason for that is the United Sates also has the highest rankings for obesity and other major health problems. With such high numbers of health problem it forces health care providers to increase cost

in a wealthy, developed economy, which lacks universal access. The way the U.S. health services are financed and provided are rapidly changing. The U.S. health services system is more entrepreneurial and open-minded compared to other countries. The United States health care expenses are higher than any other country. Per capita expenses for health services were $7,421 in 2007 and yet as much as 20 percent of the U.S. population may not have the finances to access to health services at some point during a year (Barton, 2010).

Amongst the OECD countries the United states accounted for the highest health care spending of 16.9% of GDP in 2012,it is greater than 7.5% above the OECD average of 9.3%1.As compared with the other OECD countries, the United States health spending is evenly distributed between public and private sectors1. The public sectors expenditure on health care was 48%, in 2012, which is well below the average of 72% in other OECD countries1.