Health Care Reform: A Case Study

For centuries, health care has been an ever changing entity within the United States. The cost of health insurance, medication, and medical care has fluctuated from high to low. Over the years with all the changes to healthcare, those in Congress try to appease everyone that is involved. For example, trying to make healthcare affordable for those who are less fortunate and live around the poverty line. As well as, employers who may have to revamp their insurance plans offered to the employees. Recently the talk about healthcare has put many people in an uproar. Health care reform has been a very debatable topic since President Obama has been in office. Health care reform, also known as Obama Care, has a section called the Affordable Care

The complexity of health care could take the rates on a massive trajectory that does not favor the people covered. Therefore, the financial protection that the levels of health insurance covers, help to guard against the risks related to the unexpected costs of health care. The source of coverage could still have an impact by the insurance coverage and financing alternatives that one has access to; Conversely, private insurance, social insurance, and the national health services are the types of healthcare systems by funding and provision. As we look to health care coverage and the reform of Obamacare, I’ll analyze the impact of the uninsured in the industry and look for a resolution to improve the

When Medicare was first established, Medicare adopted the payment methods of Blue Cross Blue Shield which meant that the program was paid hospitals on the basis of their own costs and physicians were being reimbursed by the fees that they charged which caused hospitals and physicians to provide care without boundaries (Anderson et al., 2015). This method caused Medicare to dissipate the budget that was established for beneficiaries to utilize. Now, with the ACA being implemented, Medicare had done an overhaul of payment reimbursement. Medicare is now moving toward a volume to value payment initiative that links payment to patient outcomes, experience of care, while giving providers an incentive to limit spending

One common theme that has resurfaced throughout the entire Obama administration and has created a great deal of focus and debate is health care reform. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) which was introduced by Obama in 2010 creates a new structure of health care. It transforms health care from “late-stage, high intensity, illness focused, tertiary, interventional health service to a much stronger value driven focus on achieving the highest levels of health” (Porter-O’Grady, 2014, p. 65). Through this act, legislation has been created that regulates the way hospitals and physicians are reimbursed, which is built on evidenced-based, quality health care outcomes that are cost effective without infringing upon patient satisfaction. At the heart of this debate is the impact on nursing care, for nursing is the largest health care professional as well as the largest component of health care costs. Any change in the health care reimbursement will greatly affect the nursing practice (Buerhaus, 2010). In order to fully understand the impact of this health care reform, one must understand that health care reform is not a new concept. Health care reform has been transforming since the 1800s.

Conclusion: The Obamacare has its very good points it does benefit the economy in ways that are meant to take the economy out of debt. But they do cause side effects that may not have been thought of.

As we all know, the United States has been and continues to be on the edge of national health reforms due to uncontrolled healthcare costs. Since the U.S. health care system does not lead the world in health of its own citizens, 28 million Americans remain uninsured and 30 Million more are underinsured as of 2016 (Jama, 2016). The national health reform started in the early 1900s when the American people faced sickness that led to poverty. Working people had to miss work due to sickness which led to a loss of their wages and steady income, making it hard to pay for medical expenses. The decreased income, made it hard to seek medical attention, because it became a matter of just being able to cover necessities. President Theodore Roosevelt

Many Americans agree that our health care system needs to be changed. What people do not agree on is how. With the advent of ObamaCare, healthcare reform is more important now more than ever. With the high cost of medical care due to insurance cost and pharmaceuticals, healthcare professional must learn to think outside the box to make medical care affordable to everyone and still have the doctors make a profit. With the rebirth of Healthcare Reform, the general public is talking about it, has an opinion on it and wants to know more about it. With this paper, I want to explain the benefits of Healthcare Reform explain why the new ObamaCare is a better choice for more Americans and prove there are still strides to be made. I think the new healthcare reform does not present a fundamental challenge to American Democracy but would in fact strengthen it as more Americans are encouraged to buy into it and taking control of their own health. Some Americans feel that Obama care did not help our health care system.

Should one be forced to have health insurance, or should it be an option? Healthcare is a topic that Texas has often debated. The Affordable Care Act, signed into law on March 23, 2010 was immediately a largely debated subject. The new health care act could be beneficial for those on Medicaid, yet Texas did not expand Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act.

I feel heath care reform was necessary, health care costs affect the economy, the federal budget, and virtually every American’s family’s financial well-being. According to Obama, “In 2008, the United States devoted 16% of the economy to health care, an increase of almost one-quarter since 1998 (when 13% of the economy was spent on health care), yet much of that spending did not translate into better outcomes for patients” (Obama, 2016, p.526). In 2008, 1 in 7 Americans did not have health insurance (Obama, 2016). Clearly something was wrong with the health care system in the United States. The United States spends more than twice as much on health care per person as other developed countries (Teitelbaum & Wilensky, 2015). If you worked for a company that did not provide health insurance, most people went without and used Emergency Rooms for primary care. I live in Massachusetts. Massachusetts was the only state in the country to require anyone over the age of 18 to have health insurance. If you didn’t, you were penalized with a monetary fine. There are many benefits to mandated Health Insurance. One benefit is if you become sick, you don’t have to worry about going bankrupt getting care. Secondly, the cost of health care will come down and finally the federal deficit will come down. The Affordable Care Act seems to be working. According to Obama “The Affordable Care Act had made significant progress toward solving

The United States is the only major industrialized nation without universal access to health care. The U.S. government spends twice as much per capita of any Nation on healthcare, nearly 17% of its gross domestic product, but fairs no better on health outcomes and preventable death. Which happens to be the reason I chose this topic for my research paper, a complete lack of understanding for what is probably the most comprehensive reform of the U.S. medical system in at least 45 years. After almost a century of failed attempts to pass a national health insurance by both republican and democratic presidents the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act also commonly known as ObamaCare was signed into law by President Barak Obama on March 23, 2010 and will be

For this assignment I selected “The Policy and Legislation Debate for U.S. Health Care Reform 2009 – present. I believe that we are in need of health care reform because the current system although previously revamp with the Afford able health care plan is still not working for everyone. In 2009, 50.7 million of the population in the United States had no health insurance; this reflects 16.7 percent of the total population, and 10 percent under the age of 18 (Wolf, 2010). The new law put forth by President Barack Obama is structured to help a greater number of people in poorer and middle-income

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.

“We will pass reform that lowers cost, promotes choice, and provides coverage that every American can count on. And we will do it this year.” The preceding is a powerful statement from the newly elected President Barak Obama. One of the main aspects of both political campaigns was health care reform. The above quote shows passion and encouragement, but the quotes about health care do not end there. Georgian republican gubernatorial candidate and health care policy maker John Oxendine expressed: “Their proposal would virtually devastate the private healthcare sector in this country along with competition and patient choice, by replacing it with bureaucratic planning and government control. The result of this plan and its one trillion

While America has more doctors per one-thousand people the doctor office waits would be dreadful, it would be similar to waiting at the Department of Motor Vehicles. Under a single-payer health care system, patients would have to wait to schedule an appointment then wait for an additional time to see the doctor, much like the Department of Motor Vehicles. Michael Tanner and Cannon both strengthen this analogy by stating that “the wait for heart surgery can be as long as 25 weeks” in Sweden and “some will probably die awaiting treatment” (Cannon and Tanner). They also wrote that nearly nine-hundred thousand British citizens were awaiting treatment at a National Health Service hospital and over fifty-thousand surgeries were canceled, most likely due to lack of resources (Tanner and

Since families that go to St. Jude for treatment never receives a bill, some felt that this healthcare reform would threaten the tax-exempt status for this hospital. According to Carrie Strehlau, a spokesperson for St. Jude, “the implementation of the healthcare reform would not impact the way St. Jude provide care” (Scurlock, 2013). She goes on to say that “St. Jude would not have a problem meeting all of the ACA’s requirements” (Scurlock, 2013). Even though, St. Jude doesn’t anticipate any fines, they are still required to do a community needs survey and file paperwork with the IRS every three years to show they are still needed in the community. Since 2010, St. Jude has complied with all requirements of the Patient Protection and Affordable