Health Care Case Study

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.

In a perfect world healthcare, public schools, and Universities as well as other necessities that are important to everyday life will be distributed freely to all people. We live in a world of consumerism, therefore in order to advertise for everyone in terms of healthcare there needs to be a good variety of options that allows the consumer and people in business to fairly succeed. One proposal that I came to agree with is the American Health Reform Act of 2013 (AHRA). I will give a critical review of what the American Health Reform Act entails and how it differs from the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for the better.

The Affordable Care Act is a law that affects the American people in economic ways. In this Act, health care providers have the ability to offer services to individuals that cut the price of medical expenses and also determine who can provide the health serve for the individuals. This affects a large group of the population, from children to adults. This paper seeks to examine how the Affordable Care Act affects college students, birth control, caps on coverage, insurances for all Americans and rising premiums.

As the years go on, everything around us is constantly changing and becoming more advanced. The recent election of our president has and will force us to see some very big changes in the next few months. ObamaCare also known as the Affordable Care Act was set in place by President Obama in order to reduce health care costs and give affordable health insurance to Americans. I was very skeptical about researching this because it is such a controversial topic but I chose to move forward with learning more about ObamaCare. The New Year is approaching quickly and this new healthcare system will

Health care is constantly changing. Every day, new discoveries and changes are made in the field that shapes our daily lives. The Affordable Care Act changes health care by providing equal opportunity care for every American citizen. It also helps keep the cost of expensive care at an affordable price. With the opportunity to use the gift of health care, many Americans will hopefully find themselves going to the doctor’s office regularly. In years to come, hopefully the act will allow America to become a healthier nation, where everyone deserves the care they

The Basic Health program could be structure in several ways. It could expand programs such as Medicaid and CHIP and contract with managed care plans on behalf of its Medicaid and CHIP beneficiaries outside the private insurance market. These changes would allow both programs to continue as a "separate program with a separate financing mechanism and risk pool from that of Medicaid and CHIP, but would leverage the state's existing infrastructure for information technology, contracting, rate setting, and other function" (Angeles, 2012). Alternatively, a state could expand the Medicaid managed care by increasing the number and types of service through different network of providers, other than those that serve Medicaid and CHIP beneficiaries (Angeles,

On Tuesday 06/27/2017, veteran Mr. Saenz walked very angrily in my office with his wife about 11:00 AM. I greeted them and offered to sit down; Mr. Saenz and Mrs. Saenz were very upset and asked me where they need to go as they have VA examination, they both said “nobody tells them anything; they have been sitting in waiting room”. They told me that the lady on the desk told them to come to me.

As an international student from the country with individual mandate, I was surprised to find out that there are millions of uninsured people in America. I was also surprised because the cost of both the insurance and the healthcare are so much higher than I expected. Still, during the first semester, I thought it will progress in a better way since the number of uninsured has been steadily decreasing with individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act.

Issue: 4.6 million Texans are currently uninsured without access to affordable healthcare due to the state’s refusal to expand Medicaid or provide additional public health coverage options. Section 1115 of the Social Security Act gives the Secretary of Health and Human Services the authority to approve states’ experimental, pilot, or demonstration projects that promote the objectives of the Medicaid and CHIP programs.

These opposite goals thus result in the polarization between insurance companies and their clients, which has in turn lead to monumental costs for both sick and injured Americans as well as insurance companies. Even more so, these opposite goals result in a drastic percentage of Americans who are left insured. With the 45 million Americans as of 2005 who live in the country uninsured, the United States is the only developed nation that still does not have a universal health care policy (Clemmit 1). This statistic demonstrates the sheer quantity of people that need healthcare in America, as well as the urgent need to support these people.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka “Health Care Reform Act”) signed into law earlier this year by President Obama is potentially the most significant change in health care and health-benefits law ever passed, as some commentators believe it will lead to greater collective changes in the provision of health-care benefits than the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), Medicare, and Medicaid combined. According to the Obama administration, the main purpose of the ACA is to reduce health care costs, guarantee health insurance to all Americans regardless of preexisting

The Affordable Care Act is something that many Americans are extremely opinionated yet highly uneducated on. As future healthcare professionals it is extremely important to understand the legislature that affects us all as well as the patients that we serve. The Affordable Care Act is one of the most recent attempts to reform the healthcare industry by providing more affordable, high quality health insurance to Americans. The Affordable Care Acts aims to reduce premium and out-of-pocket costs for tens of millions of families and small business owners who had not had access to coverage in the past. This helps over 32 million Americans afford health care who could not get it before – and makes coverage more affordable for many more. Under this plan, 95% of Americans will be insured. In 2013 over 15% of Americans were without insurance. This paper will further discuss the background of the need for this Act as well as how this will affect the lives of present and future healthcare professionals.

Introduction: In the case study: Managed Care and the Practice of Medicine, we are introduced with a 78-year old male with several chronic health conditions ranging from hypertension to coronary artery disease. He arrived to the emergency room after experiencing symptoms associated with an infection. He is later diagnosed with severe sepsis and he is admitted and is given intravenous antibiotics and pain medications. Three days later, the 78-year old male receives a visit from a utilization management nurse where she asks the 78-year old patient how he is feeling.

For this observation, I tried to look up the relationship between supplier and offices. From 2012 to 2015, top 10 suppliers generated $63216036878.69 dollars in total (Table 2.1). Based on the table 2.2, Department of Health Care Services spent $83590661471.67 dollars on Purchasing 529 items in total (Table 2.2 and Chart2.2). The thing is, most of the top 10 supplier’s revenue were contributed from Department of Health Care Services in 529 transactions. In contrast, Department of Health Care Services only spent $97463543.55 in other 20094 transactions between 2012 and 2015 (Table2.3). Based on the information, I will recommend the Department of Health Care Services to use state credit card or online banking for making purchases in the

While so many people do not have health care because of one reason or another, others may not have the write health care for them. The following information will give some insight to both situations. The health insurance in a state is required to have the following services: