The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act appears to focus on health prevention and establishing affordable insurance for all Americans. As a future nurse practitioner, I feel this Act will affect my practice in a variety of ways. To best understand these impacts I have divided my thoughts into pros and cons of the PPAC Act. To start, the pros of this Act for me include health promotion and prevention, nursing tuition reimbursement, and granting access to healthcare for patients who may not have the opportunity for health insurance prior to the Act initiation. Koh and Sebelius (2010) report some examples of covered services for patients to include “screening for breast cancer, cervical cancer, and colorectal cancer; screening for human …show more content…
With the PPAC Act, these Americans can obtain the disease prevention and management they deserve. Through tuition reimbursement programs, the PPAC Act puts nurses and nurse practitioners in rural or underdeveloped areas to provide this care for patients who may not have the opportunity for healthcare otherwise (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act). The Act also provides services to alleviate tobacco dependence and obesity since these two topics are of major health concerns to United States citizens (Koh & Sebelius, 2010). “The initiative aims to unify national dialogue about health, motivate action, and encourage new directions in health promotion, providing a public health roadmap and compass for the country” (Koh, …show more content…
If millions of Americans will now have easy access to healthcare, then the question I must ask is are there millions of nurses who will be joining the workforce? The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2017) published some data on their website that shows a likely major nursing shortage between 2009-2030, which is projected to be serious shortage in the South. As a future nurse practitioner, and one in the South, I feel like this shortage will only contribute to poor quality of care, nursing burn out, and poor patient outcomes. It is noteworthy that the potential student loan repayment options under the PPAC Act could generate an increase in our profession. Another con as I see it, is the increase in paperwork and quality reporting to fuel Medicare reimbursement. As a nurse manager, I know this con all too well. I spend countless hours on a computer generating reports, writing down statistics and inputting data for quality measures. Countless hours that are taken away from patient care.
Overall, I do feel like the idea of PPAC Act is a great one and it appears one that is probably here to stay. With Trump in office now, I am anxiously awaiting how any changes will affect my professional
“The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Implications for Public Health Policy and Practice.” Public Health Reports. Association of Schools of Public Health. n.d. Web. 14 July 2015. This paper claims that the PPACA will cut the number of uninsured Americans in half. The act attempts to provide nearly universal coverage and improve the quality and equity of said coverage through reforms to insurance standards and the marketplace. It also attempts to improve the quality of healthcare and the efficiency of its delivery by allowing consumers to edge the system into a more integrated state and measuring performance. It attempts to encourage preventive medicine by targeting chronic illnesses and funding community-based medicine. These changes will bring huge opportunities for improvement in the system, many of which are subtle and nuanced and will only be seen as the plan rolls into act over the next few
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It is one of the most regulated health care systems ever in the history of the United States. PPACA/ACA a.k.a Obamacare is also one of the hugely funded public policy, and one of the weirdest, unpopular and ineffective government mandated health care policy the world has every seen. Since passing into law in 2010, hospitals and doctors are devoting significant amount of time trying to detail this documentation. This takes away from potential time hospital and doctors can spend helping their patients. This new policy is seen as placing bureaucrats between doctors/physicians and their patients who grant regulators unprecedented control over individual medical decisions. On top of these regulations, what is even more frustrating is the manner in which this new policy levied unprecedented fines/fees/taxes on individuals and small businesses. The PPACA/ACA a.k.a Obamacare is stripping away patient’s autonomy and drowns doctors in bureaucracy, and drain job satisfaction. Many students considering a careering in medicine will pursue other opportunities. The supply of providers will dwindle as demand for services reaches an all-time high. Employers are already passing the cost over to patients through passing increased healthcare costs on to workers, raising co-payments, boosting the costs of dependent coverage, delaying hiring, and reducing work
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