The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act (PPACA)

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), also known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or, more commonly, Obamacare, is a United States federal statute signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. The law mandates United States citizens to obtain health insurance coverage and businesses of 50 or more full time employees) to provide health insurance to its’ employees. Should you not be covered, a penalty will be imposed.

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

Throughout American history, no individual healthcare reform bill had the potential to influence health care on a national level and affect all social groups until President Barack Obama’s 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). This landmark legislation, commonly known as Obamacare, has been debated, contested, altered, and ultimately implemented. Accordingly, different political and social groups have developed preconceived notions based on individual political biases and self-interests on the effect of the PPACA’s policies on, among other things, the quality of medical care.

The Affordable Care Act was put into effect to provide more Americans with affordable health insurance, regulate the health industry, and improve the quality of health insurance. This health reform was created to fix the current healthcare system. On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) or ACA into law. The ACA has affected the economy in many ways. It gives low income families health insurance and it makes it easier for families to access healthcare and the coverage they need. It lowers overall healthcare, gives insurance to the employed and it raises taxes.

On March 23rd of 2010 one of the most highly controversial bills in American history, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), better known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed into law. The Affordable Care Act attempts to reform the healthcare system by providing more Americans with affordable quality health insurance while curbing the growth in healthcare spending in the U.S. The reforms include rights and protections, taxes, tax breaks, rules for insurance companies, education, funding, spending, and the creation of committees to promote prevention, payment reforms, and more. Four years since being passed has the Affordable Care Act begun to make healthcare more affordable to Americans? When it comes to the affordability of health care In the United States, health care has always been a private for-profit industry. The main purpose of the ACA is to make insurance more affordable and expand coverage to uninsured Americans by enacting a number of provisions. This research paper will explore some of these provisions, document their details and decide whether are not they are truly helping make health care more affordable.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010, also known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), is a legislation designed to extend coverage to the uninsured, eliminate practices that include rescission and denial of coverage due to pre-existing conditions, and lower health care costs. Moreover, the PPACA provides incentives to businesses to offer health insurance or impose penalties on business that do not provide coverage, and require individuals without health insurance to purchase reasonably priced polices through health insurance exchanges (Martocchio, 2014, p. 143). This health reform legislation was taken into effect in 2010, and is expected to complete implementation over the next few years.

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 promises to reduce health disparities, improve access to preventative services, improve health outcomes and reduce healthcare spending. As stated by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the PPACA will provide coverage to more than 94 percent of

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 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) also known as Affordable Care Act has passed to ensure that all Americans have access to quality affordable health care, with PPACA millions of uninsured Americans will have access to coverage, it include measure that will lower health care cost and improve system efficiency and to eliminate the common practice of patients getting deny coverage due to preexisting conditions. With the state the US Health Care System is in now, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Is long overdue, Cost-Sharing subsidies of $350 Billion over a 10 year period is a great investment to help bring the many necessary changes and improvement that are needed in the current healthcare system. Cost Sharing

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act(PPACA) will influence the public health care system by breaking down barriers and expanding health care coverage to everyone in need in order to receive the best quality of care. The Patient Protection and Affordable Act was signed into law March 23, 2010, the law required that all Americans have health insurance by 2014 or pay a tax penalty on their federal income taxes. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act aims to greatly increase the amount of Americans who are uninsured and give them the ability to receive affordable health insurance. According to Martin, (2014) “as of January 1, 2014 all children, parents and childless adults who are not entitled to Medicare and who have family

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 enactment of the Patient Protection Affordable Act has radically changed healthcare policy since Medicare and Medicaid. The Patient Protection Affordable Act (PPACA) aims to address several challenges within the Healthcare system including rising cost of care, poor access to health insurance and health services for many Americans (Shaw, Asomugha, Conway & Rein, 2014). The law promotes facilitation in the collaboration between US healthcare and public system, thus improving population and community

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), also known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or also known as Obamacare is a federal signed statute that was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010 (Secretary, 2015). According to Persad (2015), “the ACA may be the most important health law statute in American history” (Persad, 2015, pg.119). With the passing of the ACA, the coverage that American citizens now receive is very beneficial since its coverage extends further and covers individuals that are under the age of 26, ends pre-existing conditions, and also ends random withdrawals of insurance coverage (Secretary, 2015). The ACA also lets individuals maximize the costs and care that they receive,

What are some words that come to mind when Americans think about health insurance in this day in age? Expensive, deductibles, out of pocket, mandatory, out of network, copayments? Those words sounds just about right. Well, thanks to the affordable care act hopefully those thoughts should and have changed. Maybe subsidy, assistance, affordable, for everyone would be some words that come to mind. All focusing on what some call Obama Care which is the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and officially called The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The ACA was designed to reform not only healthcare but health insurance industries as well. It is now a federal statue in the United States of America that was signed into law in March of 2010 by President Barack Obama. Although created 5 years ago, the major phase began in January of 2014. Hospitals and primary physicians were to turn their practices around financially and even their technology in order for better health outcomes and lower costs to come about all while improving their services. In other words, practices were to increase the quality of services that they provide and at a lower and affordable price for consumers. There were a lot of backlash and confusion that came from Americans because of the act. Yet, there are great outcomes and there are also things that can be better about the ACA. Let’s take a look at the beginning, present and even possibly the future.

It is critical for women’s health nurse practitioners (WHNP) to understand what is covered by the PPACA. The PPACA allows an opportunity to care for the underserved population of women. This population may have never seen a doctor for prenatal or preventative care. The PPACA increases the opportunity to enable WHNP to educate these patients to better improve their overall health.