The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare would be very beneficial for the economy and health reform if it was repealed. Many statistics and studies have been done to show the issues and concerns that have risen from the act. Where is the money coming from to fund all of these new health insurance plans to those who could not afford it before? Overall, the biggest issue is funding, but that can be said for most legislation passed. No piece of legislation will ever please every single American, because there are flaws within everything. But Obamacare, does not seem logical sense. President Obama had good intentions behind the bill, but he fails to realize the harm it has done to those who do not need the health reform act. It may sound punitive, but there should be consideration for the ones who have to pay extra to keep the act alive. Obamacare should be repealed for many reasons, including industry standards, patients guarantees, the individual and employee mandate, subsidizing of money, healthcare exchanges, the secrecy and privacy behind act, pricing and cancellations of consumer insurance, and the law adding to the national deficit; there should be no reason why it should continue.
Healthcare reform has always been an area of contention for President Obama. He promised polices that would entail quality and affordable healthcare, and lower costs for the United States Health Care System. With this ideology, he signed the Patient Protection and
Health care has been a controversial topic of discussion for all Americans since it was put in effect many years ago. Currently the biggest debate of Healthcare up to date is Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, is a Health care Reform that is a governmental attempt to make basic health care easily obtainable. However, there are no benefits without cost in situations like this, and upon that are different viewpoints on the subject thus creating political debates discussing if it is ethically correct. The overall goal that Obamacare hopes to accomplish is that through specific changes through insurance companies, industry standards, and patient guarantees a healthier America will be produced. Obamacare has its ups and downs for both the generally agreeing democratic viewpoints and the opposing republican side. Both viewpoints have their own beliefs about how Health care works and Obamacare is somewhat in between on this. Most arguments on Obamacare deal with Medicaid being constitutional and if Obamacare truly reduces the total cost of health care for individuals and in the government.
With changes to something so influential, there comes positives and negatives. Some positives of the Affordable Care Act are increased access to healthcare, reduce healthcare cost, and coverage of pre-existing conditions. With increased access to healthcare, many people who did not have the opportunity previously, will now be able to have access to decent healthcare. According to the Obama Care Facts websites, “Tens of millions of uninsured will get access to affordable quality health insurance through the marketplace” (2014). Also, previously to the Act if a
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a federal statute that was signed into law in America by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. It is divided into 10 titles.
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
In March 2013, President Barack Obama signed a federal statue into law that would change the way Americans receive healthcare. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as the Affordable Care Act, and sometimes called Obamacare is the most significant revision of the U.S. healthcare system since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid back in 1965. The main function of the Affordable Care Act is to improve hospitals’ and physicians’ practices financially, technologically, and clinically so the health outcomes and lower costs. Americans are split, as they are with most political issues, on whether or not the act is a viable solution to our healthcare problem. Even though it has had its problems such as a faulty website and being thought of as too complicated and expensive for the American government to take on, I believe the Affordable Care Act is a good solution for the healthcare problems in our country.
President Barack Obama’s plan for healthcare reform was plan to make sure that every citizen no matter what his or her race, background, or economic status has quality affordable healthcare. With the passing of Obamacare, American citizens live longer as a result of effective healthcare coverage at a lower cost. Currently insurance companies have the power to deny coverage, drop people from their policies, and raise the cost of premiums. Whether you call the current healthcare reform Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act, it was designed so that every American would have healthcare that is affordable. When you consider that the United States is said to be the land of opportunity, the thought of being sick and not being able to get the treatment that you need for an illness is unconstitutional.
In this paper you are going to learn all about the Accountable Care Organization (ACO). Also, how does it pertain to the healthcare system? We will also be learning about the reimbursement rates for Medicare patients. Who makes up the Accountable Care Organization? We will also take a look into the Affordable Care Act and how the ACO is a part of that.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was implemented in March of 2010 by President Barak Obama. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as Obama care went into effect on January 1st of 2014. More than half of the United States of America was uninsured before the ACA was put into effect. The goal of the ACA is to provide those who fall in the “gap” with health insurance.
The purpose of this review is to investigate through journal sources, government data points, and published opinions and experiences aspects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) as it relates to arguments that the law should be repealed. I investigated the goals of the ACA, changes in care and insurance coverage, impacts on the labor market, and changes in insurance premium rates since the ACA was signed by President Barack Obama on March 23, 201 (Hong, Holcomb, Bhandari, & Larkin, 2016) 0.
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. The reform is a hindrance to the advancement of the health care industry, and thus Obama’s policy position of health care is unacceptable and unsound.
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 insurance exchanges, transition to private insurance, what is required of employers and cost and coverage estimates. I chose to write on this topic in support the Affordable Care Act, because as registered nurse working in the emergency room I have dealt with people that are not insured and therefore, were unable to afford healthcare. I wanted to learn more about and make the affordable Care Act work. I don 't think people should scrounge to get affordable healthcare even though sometimes it is not the best healthcare.
The Patient Protection Affordable Care Act (PPACA), enacted by Congress in 2010, ensures all Americans are entitled to “basic” healthcare security (Shaw, Asomugha, Conway & Rein, 2014). The policy aims to address several challenges in healthcare including poor access to health care, rising cost of health care services, and to improve overall quality of healthcare. However, due to the increasing demands of the growing patient population, and limited resources available, the possibility of healthcare rationing in the post- PPACA is bought to attention as well as ethical dilemmas that may arise. The leadership case analysis will explore the impact of new provisions to the healthcare policy, as well as disadvantages and advantages of rationing related to the growing patient population. In addition, implications from a leadership perspective and an economic analysis on a microeconomic and macroeconomic level are discussed.
On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed comprehensive health reform, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), into law. The United States is at the beginning of a long overdue and much needed overhaul to the health care system. The changes made to the law by legislation, focuses on: provisions to expand public health coverage, an effort to control health care costs, initiatives to improve health care delivery system, and reorganization of spending under Medicare (Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, 2014). More than 90 changes were included in the law; some went into effect almost immediately such as: posting of caloric details at major chain restaurants, taxation on tanning, and more breastfeeding rooms and
In this paper I plan to discuss an increasingly difficult topic of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. I will go over the basics of the act including who founded it, when, what it states as well as what its purpose is. I will also discuss the nine titles of the Affordable Care Act. I will then go over how four of the nine titles have affected how nurses provide care. I will finalize my paper by reflecting upon what I have learned from the Affordable Care Act.
In 2010, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). With this act in place, president Obama promised that he would make quality, affordable health care not a privilege, but a right. Before the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law, “over 30 million Americans were currently without health care coverage for themselves and their families.” Said Toni Scherling, a nurse practitioner at the North Memorial Hospital in Maple Grove Minnesota. Imagine how your life would be like if you were one of million Americans that needs medical coverage, but could not afford it.