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    Professor and Class, Let me start by staying how affordable is affordable? The Affordable Care Act (ACA) otherwise known as the Obama Care is a health care coverage that is invented for those people who cannot afford to pay for high insurance cost. According to the market place (2014), most people who bought the insurance coverage stated that the “coverage is affordable”. This is factual for those people who have low income and are “paying under 125 dollars per month” Marketplace (2014). Over

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    Bakhshizad Mr. Todd Mod “H” Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act Everest University What Is Affordable and What Isn’t? The healthcare industry in America has definitely changed over the last few decades. Our federal government has tried to mold and shape our country into a place where healthcare can be affordable for all families, not just the wealthy and those below the poverty line. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was created to bring about changes and healthcare

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    An Over View of the Affordable Care Act After over nearly a century and dozens of failed attempts and proposals for Universal Health Care the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was finally passed by Congress in 2010. When the bill was first assembled in the House, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, was able to achieve consensus where others had failed. Pelosi told the three separate Committees that were working on the three bills that they must work together to create one bill, not three separate bills

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    Macroeconomics of the Affordable Care Act Noureen Tharwani Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University The macroeconomics of the competitive health insurance marketplace has been disrupted by government involvement through the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 was designed to increase the quality, availability, and affordability of private and public health insurance for over 44 million uninsured Americans. NEED SOURCE

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    America Needs the Affordable Care Act

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    who has paid for it. Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, otherwise referred to as Obamacare, signed into law on March 23, 2010, this requires all Americans to purchase health insurance. The purchase of this care is purchased either individually or through the government market place. The act will lower

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    On March 23, 2010 President Barack Obama put into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. It is commonly referred to as the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare. The primary goal of the Affordable Care Act was to increase health insurance quality and affordability for the American people. The law introduces new rules for insurance companies requiring acceptance for all who apply. It requires that the same insurance premiums be charged regardless of race, sex, or pre-existing conditions

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    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

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    one of the main issues of the debates. The law has caused both benefits and problems for citizens of the USA. Some citizens of America have violently protested against the ACA, while some citizens lives depend on it. This law is called the Affordable Care Act, signed in 2010, and I strongly believe that it is a good law. The ACA, nicknamed Obamacare, is a necessary law. One reason why it is an important law is that “...the

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    Vanessa McCrary Jason Livingston English IV 30 October 2015 Obamacare Health Care Monstrosity With every new election comes new legislature the 2008 election had to deal with the hot new topic the Affordable Health Care Act (ACA). Then when Barack Obama was elected into office, he wanted it to be changed to Obamacare. Obamacare and the ACA is relatively the same thing. It is referred to as Obamacare because he is the one who signed for it to be passed. Due to the stress that Obamacare has

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    Contemporary Healthcare On March 23, 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or “Obamacare” was signed and put into effect (DiMichele, 2017). From then to now, many people in the United States are split from fully agreeing to completely against this certain reform. Throughout different types of research and speaking to an interviewee, I have found multiple reasons that the ACA is good and why it can be bad (or Pros and Cons). One important pro that I found was that with Obamacare, anyone can have the

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