Mike Ferguson once said, America 's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken. The employees inside the U.S. health care system are some of the best in the world, but the way the system is implemented is broken. The book America’s Bitter Pill, written by Steven Brill, takes an in depth look at the health care system in America. It goes in depth about Obamacare and how it was written, being installed, and changing or failing to change the system. The writing of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was a tedious and difficult project.…
Natalie Dixon, information generated from government and scholastic sources have previously highlighted the continuing disparity in health care in general. Across the globe there are contrasting policies and systems that have been implemented to meet the requirements of those nations constituents. Some are remarkable in their approach to delivering health care, the quality of care and their specific level of government control. The Affordable Care Act had both its positives and negatives in its designed approach to a continuing issue, but the fact remains and has been documented that for every action there is a reaction. Some of the negativities have complicated the issue, but then again it all depends on which side of the bandwagon one wishes to address or champion in their approach.…
This bill was passed by the Senate on December 24, 2009, and later by the House of Representative on March 21, 2010. It was signed into law by President Obama on March 23, 2010, and would increase and ensure health insurance to 96% of all Americans (“Obamacare Bill: Full PPACA & Related Laws.”). As a result of this, over 36 million Americans would receive health care coverage. The ObamaCare Bill, AKA the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, was the first successful national health care reform since Medicare was passed in late 1965 (“Obamacare Bill: Full PPACA & Related Laws.”). Some of the provisions that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ensures are that there will be no discrimination based on Gender, insurance companies cannot take away coverage from sick people, even if they have pre-existing conditions, and all Americans will be given an equal opportunity to purchase or be provided with health care based off their income and employment (“Obamacare Bill: Full PPACA & Related Laws.”).…
This policy analysis of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (hereinafter referred as PPACA) begins by identifying major stakeholders and political implications. Next, it explores PPACA as health policy and reveals new possibilities of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. The issues of ethics, personal privacy, and personal rights are discussed before a brief ‘lessons learned’ review of historical health policies. Finally, this paper closes with a health policy analysis of PPACA –advantages, problems, and implications.…
Millions of uninsured Americans now have access to affordable health insurance and in turn, new taxes were implemented to help pay for the uninsured. Over half of uninsured Americans can acquire free or low cost health insurance, and to offset for this you are required to obtain health insurance, request an exemption, or pay a fee. ACA ensures that you can’t be dropped from coverage when you get sick, have pre-existing conditions, or be charged more for being a woman. Because insurance companies are required to cover everyone; insurance rated go up. Medicaid has expanded to cover millions who fall below the poverty level.…
In 2010 the Affordable Care Act became one of the most talked about pieces of legislation that has brought many mixed reviews. Healthcare is a necessity that each of us need to maintain our lives. While we have an excellent source of healthcare service in the United States, it’s the access to that healthcare that has been a problem for many American’s. There are countries that have already turned to government healthcare. The Affordable Care Act was designed to help each of us have the access to Health care that we have not been able to afford in the past.…
Similar to Canada’s health care system, President Barack Obama implemented the Affordable Care Act. The Affordable Care Act provides Americans with affordable and quality health insurance. To make health care more affordable in the United States, the legislation includes new benefits, rights and protections, rules for insurance companies, taxes, tax breaks, and funding (Affordable Care Act Summary). I believe that the Affordable Care Act, also referred to as Obamacare, is beneficial for Americans of the middle class. With the Republic party looking to repeal the ACA in 2017, one can realize the benefits the legislation had on the upper-middle class, middle-middle class, and lower-middle class Americans.…
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, “Obamacare”, affects the healthcare industry and the way America delivers healthcare. The act focuses on providing more Americans with affordable, quality health insurance through reforms, taxes, regulations, and exchanges. The benefits are that more Americans have health insurance, it is more affordable to have, people with pre-existing conditions cannot be denied coverage, regulates the health insurance industry, reduces health care spending, and there are no set limits on the amount of money insurance companies can spend on an individual. The unfortunate cons to the PPACA is many people have to pay higher premiums, taxes are rising due to the ACA, you can be fined for not having health insurance, and some employers are cutting employees hours to avoid covering them.…
As Americans, do we not have the right to provide for and protect our families? In 2010, the largest overhaul of the health care system, since Medicare, began with legislation for The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act(PPACA), also known as Affordable Care Act(ACA) or commonly identified as Obama Care. This legislation brought care to American families that had never participated in a health care program, or never acquired health insurance because of financial hardship (Thompson). Arguably, there is the conservative citizen, and religious members of our society that claim we are creating Socialized Medicine and or interfering with religious freedoms. Equally important, The Affordable Care Act provides access to Medical Insurance to those individuals with the greatest need, at an affordable rate or no fee at all, with securities that the insurance companies no longer hold all the power over the individuals and allowing insured with preexisting conditions to obtain quality health care.…
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act mandated several types of new arrangements of care. One of these is the Accountable Care Organization (ACO). Explain what ACOs are, whom they serve, and how they are supposed to reduce costs of care. ACO is an organization that consist of doctors, suppliers of health care e.g hospitals, clinics, all health care services, and anyone involved in patient care to provide the best possible care for all medicare patients. This model was adopted by the Affordable Care ACTwith the number one goal of providing timely, accessible and appropriate care for all medicare patients.…
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), is shortened for The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), which is the new health care renewed regulation in America, and is known as Obamacare. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is made up from several milestones in health care, such as of the Affordable Health Care for America Act, the Patient Protection Act. In addition, other milestones which took place in the health care was the ACA, which is also associated with health care sections of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, and the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act. Furthermore, it consist of modifications to other laws like the Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act and the Health and Public Services Act. From the time…
I will be discussing how the ACA ruined other people's healthcare and how it change medical institution health plans. Through this essay, I will prove that the Affordable Care Act was bad for the majority of citizens. How were american citizens affected by Obama Care? One of the biggest problems of this health care, was how the ACA was replacing other insurance plans around the country. An example of this predicament is Kelly More the vice president of “GKM Auto Parts” and Darin Lawler the store manager for the store.…
What has been the historic role of the American Medical Association in the passage of health insurance legislation? Founded in 1847, the American Medical Association (AMA), the professional organization for physicians that initially opposed Medicare, comparing it with socialized medicine. When it seemed that passage was inevitable, The AMA lobbied for the program to cover only the poor elderly. What has been the impact of the Patient Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010 on the U.S. health care system? The PPACA is intended to provide affordable health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care costs.…
For 86% of Americans, health care as they know it will not be changed. The Affordable Care Act, arguably President Obama’s largest achievement in office, has faced much backfire, both with lack of support, as well as raised issues of Constitutionality. This being said, Obamacare has been implemented and now has goals to be fully functional by the year 2016. Many Americans did not know how this change in national health care effects them, which is why many people are against it, simply because they don’t like change, and they don’t like not knowing what to expect. With Obamacare though, the majority, 86% of Americans, will not see extensive changes in their health care, if they even see any changes at all.…
The right to affordable health care is as sacrosanct as the right to be free, if not more. The most important issue is making medical care a right for everyone at an affordable price. American health care has an insurance-based system; thus, to get affordable and efficient medical help, you should be insured. Currently, there are about 44 million uninsured Americans. According to Elizabeth Bradley, the author of the book The American Health Care Paradox, the paradox of today’s system is that “United States spends so much on health care but continues to lag behind in health outcomes” (33).…