Health Care Reform and How the United States Got There.

A newest way to finance health care now days is the health care reform which it is also called Obama Care. The Affordable Care Act was signed into law in 2010. The main objective behind the Affordable Care Act was to ensure that affordable health care insurance was available to every U.S citizen. This law is an extensive document that contains many regulations and laws that relate not only to health care but also to the regulation of insurance companies. One of the best known regulations is that group health plans can no longer put limitations or deny benefits to individuals under the age of 19 due to pre-existing conditions and individuals under the age of 26, are now eligible to be covered under their parents’

In recent years, health care has been a huge topic in public debates, legislations, and even in deciding who will become the next president. There have been many acts, legislations, and debates on what the country has to do in regards to health care. According to University of Phoenix Read Me First HCS/235 (n.d.), “How health care is financed influences access to health care, how health care is delivered, the quality of health care provided, and its cost”.

The first problem faced by the Americans after the health care reform entered into force, is the growth of insurance fees. Insurance companies, in order to protect themselves from the increased risk of payment for the treatment of their clients, have raised fees for their services. Therefore, many healthy citizens were against this law because they did not want to take payment for the increased risk of insurance companies. Now, there is a monopoly on the market which allows the companies to set higher prices, and the government provided them by law that all the citizens will have to buy their services. Thus, the authorities of the country provided a steady income for their insurance organizations using the citizens

During the formation of the United States of America, the founding fathers had difficulty to agree on common issues due to their conflicting political stances. The intention of each political party is to form a solution that is in the best interest of the citizens in the U.S and of how to govern the US following its independence from Great Britain. It is safe to conclude that some Americans base their decisions on family affiliations rather than viewing each economic, social, and political problem differently to make an informed decision. The presidential nomination of then Senator Barack Obama marked the country's breakthrough in recent years during the 2008 election. Trends showed favoritism among the young, college-aged population when he ran for office his first time. He won their votes, along with other voters, based on general social and economic proposals he intends to solve. During the President's first and second term, his administration seeks to resolve the healthcare concern, a major political and economic problem, which is causing the country's deficit to swell. On March 23, 2010, President Obama (Whitehouse.gov, 2014) signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), commonly known as "Obamacare," into law. Unfortunately, the United States of America have not come to a unanimous agreement about Obamacare. All together it seems not every person will approve every presidential decision in the country, but Obama’s health care act has sparked some more

America is a country in trouble. The leader of the free world is losing touch with the beliefs that it has been founded on. Its government grows farther from the people creating a clear distinction between those in power and those not, and on March 21, 2010 they passed a major bill. A bill that makes the American government the care providers for the country, essentially stating that companies lead by American citizens were not capable of doing it themselves. The bill that was passed is known as the Health Care-Reform bill. This Health Care –Reform is a terrible solution to the even worse problem that is Americas’ broken Health care system.

There needs to be an urgent reform of the Obama affordable health care act. The Obama health care act perhaps was an attempt to solve the solution of the American health care crisis. Obama care has created another crisis. Even those with health care coverage can not afford the out of pocket expenses. Emergency rooms are not adequately prepared for the increase in the volume of patients. Health care workers are becoming overloaded and elevated stress levels. There must be a cap on all health care cost for medical treatment. The middleman needs to be cut out. Middleman includes county clinics (on government funding who take advantage) , medical referral services, pharmaceutical company 's, and the health insurance company 's.

The implementation of the healthcare reform to the people throughout the United States provides healthcare coverage to all Americans increasing the accessibility to quality healthcare coverage making it more affordable for families. Throughout this paper I will discuss how effective the healthcare reform has been for the state of Pennsylvania, describing what the positive and negative outcomes are, and how the it has impacted the community health within my state. I will further discuss what effects the health care reform has had on economics in health care within my state.

The purpose of this report is to examine the current state of health care as well as the impacts that new legislation will have on the United States healthcare system. Specifically, this report will inspect the immediate and long term effects of the healthcare reform bill HR 3590 that was signed into law on March 23, 2010 as well as investment advice on the medical care industry.

The paper is broken up in to three sections. In section one, we will discuss the problems with the American Healthcare system and we will try and clear up some of the often misrepresented facts about the healthcare problems and solutions to fix them. In section two, we will present some of the solutions being put forward to fix the healthcare system, including plans by both Presidential Candidates

Healthcare reform has been a large part of the current political forefront since the Obama administration approved the Affordable Care Act in 2010. It seems that every day the media is reporting on information surrounding the ACA, both negative and positive. What many Americans do not know is that some sort of healthcare reform has been proposed by every presidential administration since the end of World War II. Healthcare reform has always been a huge legislative battle, and the Obama administration was not the first to enact such large changes.

President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law on March 20, 2010. Prior to this mandate, individuals with pre-existing conditions were often unable to attain health care coverage. Controversy surrounded health care reform long before the enactment of the Affordable Care Act. While President Clinton’s administration failed to overhaul our nation’s health care system in 1993 with the Health Security Act, the Affordable Care Act was the most sweeping national reform since President Lyndon Johnson’s Social Security Amendments Act created Medicare and Medicaid. Although this law has faced fierce opposition, the Affordable Care Act will help Americans lead healthier lifestyles, while increasing their

This event lead legislators and the American people to be in more favorable moods. For anybody who had seen or heard of the millions of gallons of oil that spilled into the ocean off the Alaskan coast in 1989. As all of these events made President Bush a great president but his actions with health care made him a successful president. His policies regarding Health care made President George H.W. Bush a successful President. As he didn’t really touch health care. Though to some it could be seen as a good thing he didn’t. According to “peters, Gerhard and John T. Whooley” he had made many plans for health care as he had a radio address to the people (“Peters, Gerhard and John T. Whooley”). Though he may not have directly worked on health care, but he tried to help some people with the “radiation exposure compensation act”. People who lived near the Nevada and the Atlantic bomb test sites during the cold war, were exposed to radiation that effected many. Many lives were put to ruin due to cancer and birth defects from radiation. President George H.W. Bush tried to help compensate for the lives lost or ruined by the

During the beginning of this era, reformers had the support of President Theodore Roosevelt who thoroughly believed “that no country could be strong whose people were sick and poor”. In 1915, a bill was proposed by the American Association of Labor Legislation (AALL) that limited coverage to working class individuals whose annual income was less than $1200 a year and included hospital services, sick pay, maternity benefits, and funeral expenses (Palmer, 1999). This system was believed to “relieve poverty caused by sickness” and would “yield a net savings for society” that would benefit not only citizens but businesses as well (Toland, 2014). Opinions on the AALL bill were mixed. The American Medical Association (AMA) was included in the formulation of the bill, leading them to create a committee whose entire aim was to assist the AALL but a disagreement over physician payment led the AMA to redact their support (Palmer, 1999). The American Federation of Labor continuously spoke against universal health care, fearing that it would result in complete state supervision over citizen’s health and would undermine current worker unions and the benefits they provided. Within all of this was also the strong opposition of the private insurance industry which, oddly enough, rested on the inclusion of death benefits in the AALL bill which had

National health care spending is a heated issue; however there is a single entity that all agree upon and that is there needs to be cut backs or the maintaining of current expenses. The current reform will help decrease the percentage of Americans who are without coverage. An vigilant observation on healthcare spending is needed, at the rate its going now thing don’t look too good financially for anyone when it comes to healthcare.

In the United States, the quality of the health care system is inadequate. This is an important issue , because many people believe the standard of private insurance should be improved. It has gone through a lot of history to get to where it's at today. Essentially, it has gone through a 100 years of trying to change or devise a system where everyone is satisfied. Many people, are just unsure of how to health care system can be improved. I believe the health care system in the United States can be improved tremendously. In order to improve the overall quality of healthcare in the United States we need to examine how we can improve equity, quality, and efficacy for all in the United States, and ultimately know how