Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Healthcare and Small Business
Healthcare and Small Businesses
Robin XXXXX
Business Law/103
August 26, 2015
Professor X
Healthcare and Small Business
My paper will focus on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) in the impact it has on small businesses and their employees. This legislation was created to give all Americans access to affordable and quality health care coverage, regardless to any pre-existing conditions. Patients not only have control of health care choices, but they share the responsibility of cost. The reason why I chose this topic is that I was an extended part of the debate and voting process, during the time when the country was trying to understand “Obama Care” and members of Congress were debating the bill. I was employed within the eighth Congressional District of Massachusetts as a staff assistant and my job was to keep a congressional call log. Both Democrats and Republicans had health care reform bills, there were some parts of each bill that was effective.
The Congressional office was kept open over the weekend before the voting so that the Representative could hear from the people in whom he serves. Constituents called and stopped by the office to give their opinions on healthcare. Congressman Capuano was a founder and co-chair of the Congressional Community Health Centers Caucus. He was a strong supporter of the proposed healthcare bill nicknamed “Obama Care”; the Representative was also one of 219 Democrats in the House that voted “Yea” on the healthcare bill. (capuano.house.gov) As a potential small business owner, I will need to have an understanding of how this law will impact my business, employees, and profits. “Obama care was sold as a way to give small businesses new, cheaper sources of insurance through their own health exchanges. Most of those small-business exchanges will not be able to offer workers a choice of health plans in 2014 — which undermines one of the main purposes of having them. And it’s harder for
Robin XXXXX
Business Law/103
August 26, 2015
Professor X
Healthcare and Small Business
My paper will focus on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) in the impact it has on small businesses and their employees. This legislation was created to give all Americans access to affordable and quality health care coverage, regardless to any pre-existing conditions. Patients not only have control of health care choices, but they share the responsibility of cost. The reason why I chose this topic is that I was an extended part of the debate and voting process, during the time when the country was trying to understand “Obama Care” and members of Congress were debating the bill. I was employed within the eighth Congressional District of Massachusetts as a staff assistant and my job was to keep a congressional call log. Both Democrats and Republicans had health care reform bills, there were some parts of each bill that was effective.
The Congressional office was kept open over the weekend before the voting so that the Representative could hear from the people in whom he serves. Constituents called and stopped by the office to give their opinions on healthcare. Congressman Capuano was a founder and co-chair of the Congressional Community Health Centers Caucus. He was a strong supporter of the proposed healthcare bill nicknamed “Obama Care”; the Representative was also one of 219 Democrats in the House that voted “Yea” on the healthcare bill. (capuano.house.gov) As a potential small business owner, I will need to have an understanding of how this law will impact my business, employees, and profits. “Obama care was sold as a way to give small businesses new, cheaper sources of insurance through their own health exchanges. Most of those small-business exchanges will not be able to offer workers a choice of health plans in 2014 — which undermines one of the main purposes of having them. And it’s harder for