effect the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or widely known as “Obamacare.” The changes that the act is making with all of health care will slowly be implemented throughout the years, and should be completed by 2022 (Obamacare Facts: Dispelling the Myths). In the Affordable Care Act it changes or alters almost all programs that we have today and creates new programs to assist people and properly state what type if care is expected and required of health care professionals. The Patient Protection
privilege of universal health care coverage. The greatest county to ever govern this world, a view by many nations, cannot seem to execute a plan that will set this action in motion. With rising health care coverage, not even the attempt by the Obama administration with use of “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”, could seem to execute concisely. Through this topic together we are going to explore rising health care cost, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as well as the failure
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) signed into law by president Obama on March 23, 2010 is arguably the most extensive reform of health care law ever to be enacted in the U.S. It will impact the way professionals practice health care, the way insurance companies handle health care as a product, and the way consumers purchase and use health care as a service. The Affordable Health Care Act is primarily aimed at reducing the number
History was made as the President of the United States signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law on March 23, 2010. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) delivers access to quality, affordable health care to all Americans. The breakthrough legislation, passed in March of 2010, represents the most significant government expansion and regulatory overhaul of the country’s healthcare system since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965 (Dix, 2013). The PPACA
Maureen Omondi Patrick Gilbert Govt 2305 5 February 2015 The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act The Patient Protection and Affordable care Act also known as Affordable Care Act, Obama Care and ACA is an act signed into law by the current president of the United States, Barack Obama in March 23, 2010. Beginning in 2014, any failure to purchase minimum coverage will result in a person being fined. Also included in the Act are individual mandate requirements, expanding public programs, health
like to see the integrated primary care clinical setting be changed to allow all Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) who hold the DNP degree with the required licensure, accreditation, and certification be recognized for their ability to perform fully within their scope of practice. The purpose of this paper is to describe the integrated primary care clinical setting under the affordable healthcare act, and the role DNP nurses fulfill as providers of care. Also described will be the professional
Change in Health care. 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
to reform the quality of care and strive forward towards having healthcare be available to everyone. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was a significant effort to expand healthcare to all citizens, but the part of the act that is not as well known is the proposal of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). Accountable Care Organizations are an initiative for providing better, more universal healthcare throughout all stages of life, especially focusing on the care of Medicare beneficiaries
In 2010, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, PPACA, or ACA, became a law. This act, along with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, comprise the health care reform platform initiated and signed by President Obama. For the American public, there are abundant reasons for dissatisfaction: “higher costs; arbitrary and sometimes absurd rulemaking; bureaucratization of an already overly bureaucratized sector of the economy; incompatibility with
Health care has become an integral component in the lives of modern Americans. In recent history, President Barack Obama introduced a new health reform legislation known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. This act is detrimental to the social well-being and economic success of the American people as it raises insurance premiums, significantly increases taxes, and harms businesses. It damages the quality of health care, stunts economic growth, and causes decreased wages and unemployment