Introduction
Healthcare is paramount to the life of an individual. Health systems, costs and outcomes play a vital role in the determination of whether a nation is striving towards maintaining and protecting its citizens. USA operates under the mixed market healthcare system whereby both the government and private sector play a role in the provision of health services. It is evident that the private sector plays a larger role than the government. The USA aims at attaining three forms of healthcare systems namely: single-payer, individual insurance mandates and consumer-driven health. This research will focus on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 2010 which focuses on ensuring that health care is easily accessible and
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one of the best and efficient healthcare service providers across the globe. However, in Liberia, citizens have to use their money to acquire sufficient healthcare services thus demonstrating that lack of money leads to lack of healthcare services. This subsequently leads to increased death which in real sense can be curbed. Health is a social welfare aspect since it focuses on the well-being of all individuals.
Analysis of the Act
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), is commonly known as the Obama Care or the Affordable Care Act (ACA). It is a federal statute that came into existence on March 23, 2010 by President Barack Obama. Its major focus is the transformation of the U.S. healthcare system since the enactment of Medicaid and Medicare in 1965. Prior to its enactment the affordability of health insurance had increased at an alarming rate. Similarly, the quality of health insurance had deteriorated.
The enactment of ACA was aimed at remedying such injustices via increasing the quality and affordability of health insurance as well as expanding the public and private insurance coverage thereby reducing the rates of the uninsured. Further, it aims at reducing the costs of healthcare for both the government and its citizens. The ACA’s enactment intended to introduce new mechanism such as insurance exchanges, mandates and subsidies. The ACA mandates all insurance companies to cover all applicants within the new set out minimum standards and at same
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) or Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a health care reform law that was voted into enactment in March of 2010 (Summary of the Affordable Care Act, 2013). The ACA consists of many different parts of which come from the Affordable Health Care for America Act, the Patient Protection Act various parts of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act and the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act (Affordable Care Act Summary, n.d.). The original goal of the ACA was to cut back on the amount of dollars that was being spent on health care
2. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), also called the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or colloquially "ObamaCare", is a United States federal statute signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. Together with the
The Affordable Care Act, also known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), and informally as Obama Care, was signed into law by President Barack Obama on 23rd March, 2010. The aim of the Act is a health care law aimed at improving the health care system of the United States by widening health coverage to more Americans, as well as protecting existing health insurance policy holders. According to the Obama Administration, those who already have health insurance will benefit from the legislation in various ways. For example, insurance companies will
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), generally named the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or “Obama care” was signed into law on March 23, 2010 by President Barrack Obama with a chief goal to improve the coverage of health insurance to the poor and decrease the health care spending. According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), ACA will decrease the number of uninsured residents by 32 Million by 2019.
On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a law put in place to provide comprehensive health insurance reforms that allowed Americans to have access to affordable health insurance options. The Affordable Care Act seeks to make health care more affordable, secure, accessible and of a higher quality for the millions of Americans who were previously uninsured, or who had insurance that didn’t provide them adequate coverage and security.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), commonly called Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act (ACA), is a United States federal statute signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010 (Martin, 2015). It is designed for Americans to have insurance or be penalized with 1% of your income for the beginning of last year and will raise up towards 2.5% by the beginning of 2016. Also, health care reform was created to fix our health care systems since the cost of the systems is increasing every year in price. The goal of ACA is to help out the insured with being provided with quality care through health care organizations. Thus the ACA is intended to prevent the uninsured from catastrophic medical expenses which not only
In 2010, the United States took the first tangible step toward universal health care coverage, with the legalization of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s most recent report the total population of the United States is nearly 309 million people (U.S. Census Bureau, 2010). In 2009, it was estimated 49 % of the population was covered under an employer sponsored insurance plan (Kaiser Family Foundation, 2009). The same 2009 data reported an additional 29 % of the population was covered under some form of government or public program (Kaiser Family Foundation, 2009). Leaving 17 % of the U.S. population vulnerable without any form of health insurance coverage
Elections are just a month and a half away and Obamacare is still a highly heated debate. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), or what everyone has dubbed as Obamacare is a law that passed on June 28, 2012 to help reform healthcare. The law was introduced to provide affordable medical healthcare for everyone. The reform act doesn’t take away the State’s
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is also known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) this law is the landmark health reform legislation passed by the 111th Congress and was signed into law on March 23, 2010. The legislation includes a long list of health-related provisions that began taking effect in 2010 and will continue to be rolled out over the next four years. Provisions are intended to extend coverage to millions of uninsured Americans, to implement measures that will lower health care cost and improve system efficiency, and to eliminate industry practices that include rescission and denial of
The ACA is meant to be an affordable coverage to 30 million Americans by making having affordable insurance for employers from middle to low income Americans and expanding Medicaid and Medicare. The main goal is to lower the healthcare cost and give better healthcare. ObamaCare is also meant to lower premiums and insurance costs. All Americans are required to have insurance and gives
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 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly called Affordable Care Act or, more informally known as, Obamacare, is a United States federal ruling signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. Together with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act amendment, it represents the most drastic refurbish of the United States healthcare system since the Government passed the Medicare and Medicaid in 1965(healthcare.gov). This act is supposed to make primary doctors and hospitals transform their practices and policies to make it more accommodating for all civilians. This means they would transform everything about their
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a large-scale health care law that was enacted by President Obama in March 2010. It was created with the aim of increasing the affordability and availability of healthcare. The Affordable Care Act is also known as Obamacare. When the Senate voted on the law on the 12th of December in 2016 it passed with a fifty percent majority. None of the Republicans voted for it.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is a United States federal statute that was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. This particular law has come with much controversy. The law (along with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010) is the principal health care reform legislation of the 111th United States Congress. PPACA reforms certain aspects of the private health insurance industry and public health insurance programs, increases insurance coverage of pre-existing conditions, expands access to insurance to over 30 million Americans, and increases projected national medical spending while lowering projected Medicare spending.
The Patient Protection Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is a federal statute that was signed into law on March 23, 2010 by the Obama Administration. PPACA is more commonly referred to as the “ACA” or “Obamacare”. “A primary goal of the ACA was to increase access to health care services, largely through major expansions of state Medicaid programs in 2014 and beyond” (Wilk, 2014). The quest for health care reform began in the early 1900s and has become increasingly more debated throughout the century. The American Medical Association (AMA) began the journey and has been joined throughout the many decades by the American Association for Labor Legislation (AALL), President Roosevelt, President Truman, President Johnson, President Nixon, President Clinton, and President Obama, to name a few. The ACA demonstrates the need for the balance of power between state and federal government, as well as, how America has been handling the balance of power. This law has been in the making since 1989, conceptually beginning as the Individual Health Insurance Mandate through the Heritage Foundation. The individual health insurance mandate had been introduced by Republicans twice in 1993, in hopes of providing “a bill to provide comprehensive reform of the health care system of the United States” (Sen Chafee, 1993). The bill has been revised multiple times since 1993, budding into what is commonly called Obamacare.