Healthcare in America: Why We Must Choose Jennifer Adams 201440 Fall 2014 HLTH 556-D02 LUO Dr. Pickard December 15, 2014 Abstract The element of “choice” needs to be incorporated back into healthcare equation. American citizens have the right to choose, control and carry out their own plans for health care. Under the current system, individual liberties are slowly being stripped away while health care spending continues to spiral out of control. The following legislative plan eliminates waste and encourages enlightened, responsible choices made by businesses and individuals. Programs like Medicaid need to be streamlined and modernized to meet patient-centered goals (The Heritage Foundation, 2013). Another element of choice involves the promotion of alternative ways to seek portable healthcare including the utilization of health savings accounts and offering incentives such as pay-for-performance and rewarding progression from government assistance to employer-based care (The Heritage Foundation, 2013) The integration of Auto-enrollment technology into employer based-care statistically show to improve registration rates. (The Patient’s Choice Act of 2009, n.d.). Key Words: Affordable Care Act, ACA, Free-Market Competition, Medicaid, Health Savings Account, Pay-for-Performance, Auto-Enrollment Healthcare in America: Why We Must Choose The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed
For healthcare to be fair and permeable for every person, America’s leaders will have to identify the current issues dividing the population. This means removing prejudices and developing a plan that can be seen as universal. It should help to increase the types and availability of health insurance and give those not coverage the means to secure coverage. Passing a new healthcare bill that will establish a plan that is “option driven” will place the overall decision and type of coverage in the hands of the public. This will remove the stigmata off of leaders, doctors, and health maintenance organizations. But, the two major factors that will
The U.S. health care system faces challenges that indicate that the people urgently need to be reform. Attention has rightly focused on the approximately 46 million Americans who are uninsured, and on the many insured Americans who face rapid increases in premiums and out-of-pocket costs. As Congress and the Obama administration consider ways to invest new funds to reduce the number of Americans without insurance coverage, we must simultaneously address shortfalls in the quality and efficiency of care that lead to higher costs and to poor health outcomes. To do otherwise casts doubt on the feasibility and sustainability of coverage expansions and also ensures that our current health care system will continue to have large gaps even for those with access to insurance coverage.
Recently the Untied States top priority has been to provide accessible and affordable health care to every American. Those that lack access to coverage find it much more difficult to seek proper treatment and when they do they maybe left with astronomical medical bills. The CommanWealth Fund found that one-third or thirty three percent of Americans forgo health care because of costs and one-fifth or twenty percent are thus left with medical bills that have problems being able to pay. The federal government, through the Affordable Care Act (2010), has mandated that every person have health coverage in order
On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, putting in place comprehensive reforms that improve access to affordable health coverage for everyone and to protect consumers from abusive insurance company practices (Whitehouse.gov). President Obama states that the Affordable Care Act is the most important health care legislation enacted in the United
President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law on March 23rd of 2010, with hopes of helping make sure every American have access to quality and affordable health care. Having health care coverage is really a big deal, whether you are a parent with private insurance, a senior with Medicare or a single woman with a pre-existing condition, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) can save you money and help you get better coverage.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (commonly known as Affordable Care Act and/or Obamacare) was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23rd, 2010. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was enacted to increase the affordability of health insurance by controlling the
In March 2010, the Patient Protection, and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law, in which the act
On March 23, 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or “Obamacare” was signed and put into effect (DiMichele, 2017). From then to now, many people in the United States are split from fully agreeing to completely against this certain reform. Throughout different types of research and speaking to an interviewee, I have found multiple reasons that the ACA is good and why it can be bad (or Pros and Cons). One important pro that I found was that with Obamacare, anyone can have the choice of their own Physician or place of care for their needs, then just being able to get care from an Emergency Room (ASPA, 2015). This lets the patient have more freedom to make their own decisions based on their own healthcare and what they
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), commonly called the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or as it’s more affably known, Obamacare, was signed into law by President Barack Obama
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010, and on June 28, 2012 the Supreme Court decided to uphold the law.¹ Some of the most notable features that the ACA will provide for individuals are access to healthcare for everyone, new consumer protections such as pre-existing condition coverage, free preventative care, protection against healthcare fraud, small business tax credits, as well as many other features.¹
Patient protection and affordable care act or simply affordable care act or Obama care act was signed by President Barak Obama and enacted in 111th United States congress on March 23, 2010.
One of this health care’s programs objective is to limit the number of uninsured (Shi & Singh, 2015). This controversial healthcare plan incorporates a privately funded insurance which is paid for through employment and solely by the patient and a publicly funded insurance by the government. Medicare is provided for senior citizens 65 and older, and Medicaid is provided for low income citizens. The federal government and state government both partake in the funding of Medicaid. Although insurance is provided to the low income through Medicaid, the United States continues to suffer from cost escalation spending 17.1 percent of GDP on healthcare in 2013, a 50 percent more than the second nation (Commonwealth, n.d.) The high cost and limited coverage continues to spark up the conversation for a
On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, putting in place comprehensive reforms that improve access to affordable health coverage for everyone and protect consumers from
The proposed health care reform bill attempts to change issues of public policy and health care management for the poor and uninsured. Many leaders from the Democratic Party are actively engaging in policy-making to fix what Rep. Henry Waxman (D-California) calls a “‘dysfunctional’ health care system” (2009). Currently, the U.S. health care system denies people with pre-existing conditions from receiving care. Another problem with the system is that the health insurance that some employers offer may be so expensive that their employees cannot afford it. Any cuts in Medicaid may mean that physicians have fewer incentives to provide adequate care for the poor. These are some of the many problems that the Affordable Health Choices Act attempts to address. Fiscally conservative political and business groups oppose this measure because they believe that any changes in public policy and health care management might affect them negatively.
Many employees must designate a health plan through their employer. These days, as HMOs (health maintenance organizations) and managed care plans continue to proliferate, that means a choice between bad and worse. As employees line up in the lunch-room for a process called open enrollment, they may be surprised to learn that managed care rates have gone up — again. The mirage that managed care is cheaper care is finally fading. And, for the first time in years, employees may also have the promise of free choice in medicine in the form of a new method of financing health care. Consumers are already aware of horror stories involving HMOs, but cheap rates persuaded many that managed care is less expensive. Recent