The Affordable Care Act 's Impact On Vulnerable Populations And The Future Of Nursing

The Affordable Care Act of 2010 was a transformative piece of legislature aimed at putting health insurance back in the hands of the public. This comprehensive healthcare plan outlines several key provisions that apply to nursing. "The Affordable Care Act is working to make health care more affordable, accessible and of a higher quality, for families, seniors, businesses, and taxpayers alike. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act clearly represents a movement toward much-needed, comprehensive and meaningful reform for our nation’s healthcare system (About, 2014).

With the rising cost of healthcare-it is important to be able to have insurance to help with the expenses. Many Americans are without coverage and keep from getting the care they need due to lack of funds to do so. This has been a topic of discussion for years, but the Affordable Care Act is a recent type of insurance that can be obtained by any individual. This paper is to discuss the Affordable Care Act, who founded it and the purpose of. It will also include nine titles that give a full description and applications on the nurse’s practice.

In 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or PPACA gave many Americans the opportunity to have health care coverage that previously may have not been available to them. The reform is primarily aimed at decreasing the number of uninsured and underinsured Americans. The landscape of health care is changing and nursing is evolving alongside it. This health care overhaul gives nurses a vital role in leading the reform revolution. With more than three million strong, nursing is the biggest sector of the nation’s health care labor

The Affordable Care Act, also called the ACA or Obamacare, is a health care reform law in America. The Affordable Care Act is a long, complex piece of legislation that attempts to reform the healthcare system by providing more Americans with affordable quality health insurance and by curbing the growth in healthcare spending. The law includes new benefits, rights, and protections, rules for Insurance Companies, taxes, tax breaks, funding, spending, and the creation of committees, education, new job creation, and more. The ACA includes 10 titles that address reform the U.S. healthcare system. Some of the provisions include eliminating lifetime and unreasonable annual limits on benefits. It mandates that EHB (or essential health benefits) must be included on all new plans. These benefits include ambulatory services, emergency care, hospitalization, maternity and newborn care, prescription drugs, mental health and substance abuse services, rehabilitative services and devices, labs, chronic disease management and oral and vision care for children. The new law prevents individuals from being dropped from their coverage for any reason other than fraud. The ACA requires coverage of preventative services and immunizations and of dependents up to the age of 26 years old. The law also provides assistance for individuals with preexisting conditions. The ACA also caps insurances companies’ non-medical and

Increasing numbers of previously uninsured persons have and will continue to be mandated to carry health insurance. The Affordable Care Act of 2010 will increase the number of the newly insured. Advanced practice nurses need to help alleviate this provider shortage.

Health care in the United States (US) is constantly evolving however, when the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was signed into US legislation the need for evolution increased at an exponential rate (Institute of Medicine [IOM], 2010a). The PPACA’s primary goals were to provide safe, quality, and affordable health care to every US citizen as well as to minimize the number Americans without insurance (Cherry & Jacob, 2016). According to the IOM (2010a) nurses played a fundamental role in developing the goals of the PPACA and are an essential component in meeting the requirements of the new act. Despite making up the largest sector of the health care workforce, the nursing profession faces multiple hurdles trying to effectively respond to the rapid metamorphosis of health care (IOM, 2010a). The recommendations proposed by the IOM to overcome these hurdles were released in their report on The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health (IOM, 2010b)

“The ACA outlines some new health care arrangements, and with these structures will come new opportunities for new roles. Nurses have the opportunity to play a central role in transforming the health care system to create a more accessible, high-quality, and value-driven environment for patients. If the system is to capitalize on this opportunity, however, the

According to 2010 patient protection and the Affordable Care Act, it was obvious that it needed all the possible help from all health professional, especially nurses for it to function and achieve all its aims such as affordable coverage and quality care, making all Americans to have health care that would improve the quality of life and inexpensive. There is no doubt if registered nurses do not have a strong position as partners in Affordable health care to make it a success. Three colleagues were interviewed regarding their knowledge concerning innovative health care conveyance including the current nurse’s responsibility in the health center environments, communities, health centers, as well as medical homes. Their questions were also expanded to their knowledge of Accountable Care organizations, the way they are organized, and the nurse’s opportunities in this program. What they know about medical homes and how they are organized, including nurse’s opportunities and their views on Nurse-managed Health Clinics (NMHCs and the nurse’s benefits).

On March 23, 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law. Along with the Health Care and Reconciliation Act that was signed a week later these two bills became known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) (Tacchino, 2012). This act has had a massive effect on almost everyone in the healthcare industry. The cost associated with reimbursement from Medicaid, medical coverage for individuals, and nursing practices has made many changes in the way healthcare is delivered. With these transformations there will be an impact on the future of nursing over the next 10 years and more.

Affordable Care Act key elements are aimed at providing accessible medical services to all population groups despite their economic and social status. Besides, its principal task is to guarantee the healthcare insurance coverage the people who could not previously access it because of age, gender, chronical disease or annual dollar coverage limitations. The Act also puts a lot of emphasis on the role of nurses in ensuring that healthcare services are transparent, understandable, available, and satisfactory to patients. The renovation of our health care system requires that all nurses become leaders and take a protagonist role in this transformation. Nurses entail sturdy leadership skill, should be able to work in collaboration with other healthcare

According to this Act the nurses are well-positioned to lead in providing essential prevention and wellness services and care coordination for individuals and families. The law improves opportunities for the nurse to provide quality of care. This will increase availability for the growing number of people needing basic health services. The nurses need to provide education to the people, they have greater protection against losing or being denied health insurance coverage, and better access to primary and preventive services Nurses role to prepare herself as a leader, administrators, and researchers who can improve care processes and related disease around outcomes and cost. And need to provide education about the ACA benefits. All nurses

The Affordable Care Act, (ACA) has changed the nursing profession and has also changed access to care for their patient’s. One of the direct impacts on the nursing profession is that more people are insured. Since the ACA has been passed 9 million more citizens in the United States has health insurance. It is

Healthcare Reform has been and still is a highly debated controversial political issue in this country. It has been a hot topic of past presidential campaigns, with many proposed solutions, none of which were enacted upon by Congress. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed in 2010. This law or Obamacare, as it is commonly called, was designed to cover the 48 million Americans, including about 1 million in New Jersey who did not have health insurance. It is envisioned to provide seamless, affordable, quality care that is accessible to all. Great emphasis will be placed on transforming our current “sick care” hospital system into a community “health care” system of prevention and health promotion. This paper discusses the evolving and future roles of nurses under the new system. It also examines the proposals of a joint committee made up of members of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), as an initiative to help nurses in their new leadership roles to a healthier nation.

The nurse has important roles to play on ACA, and registered nurses are in the position in providing needed prevention and wellness services, care coordination for clients and families. Nurses play a central role in health care cost, quality of care and patient safety, this is possible due to current trends in nursing education. The baccalaureate and graduate programs in nursing incorporate quality improvement in care settings. Nursing prepares leaders, administrators, and researchers who can improve care processes and related analytics around outcomes and cost.

The essential of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is to improve the quality of care and reduce costs to all Americans, through the transforming the healthcare delivery system. Nurses are always on the first line of the patient care and the major workforce for this transition. The impressions of the anticipated the change of the health care delivery system, nurses face the challenge and opportunities. Three health care models Medical homes, accountable care organizations (ACO), and nurse-managed health clinics (NMHC) discussed with the nurse colleagues. The following are the feedbacks.