Government and Health Care Reform Most people believe that Obama’s health care reform plan is about getting health care for everyone in America and making the health care system better for everyone. When everyone hears about health care reform and everyone thinks about the advantages and disadvantages to the issue. Through the research that has been done about this subject‚ there are more disadvantages to the issue than what everyone thinks. Some people are in favor of Obama’s health care reform plan because
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On March 23‚ 2010‚ President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law‚ putting in place comprehensive reforms that are intended to improve access to affordable health coverage for all U.S. citizens and to help protect consumers from abusive insurance company practices. Changes in the health care reform act will take place between 2010 through 2014; in 2014 the law will be fully implemented. The reform has many factors that can be considered good and bad. One is coverage. By a commonly cited
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The Health care reform benefits the people by making it against the law to deny any U.S. citizen coverage or rise rates based on pre-existing medical conditions for example diabetes‚ high-blood pressure‚ or asthma. The reform also prevents insurances companies from dropping you because of any illness or accidents you get while covered‚ however that’s not the reform also provides U.S. citizens with Free preventive care and annual checkups which the law focuses on to help people stay healthy and to
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Health Care Reforms The affordable care act came in to effect on March 2010. It is a four years plan that will affect the delivery of care to the 250 million Americans. (Swanton‚ 2012). The Affordable Care Act includes numerous provisions to support millions of Americans to keep the Health care costs low‚ promote preventive care such as colonoscopies and mammogram‚ and other services readily available to promote prevention of the disease and hold insurance companies accountable for the safe
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I have mixed feelings about health care reform. Being in the health care profession and being a United States resident‚ I can debate both sides of the issue. The topic infuriates me. I am old-school‚ I believe that people should work for living‚ and employers should ensure that employees can make a living. Meaning‚ people should give 110% while at work‚ and the companies that they work for should provide safe working conditions‚ as well as benefits to ensure that the people can live 110% at home
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Health Care Reform Project‚ Part I HCS/440 November 10‚ 2014 Health Care Reform Project‚ Part I A current health care economic issue in the United States is the prescription drugs many patients must obtain because of the doctor’s orders to help with their health condition. In the United States‚ there are many individuals needing to consume their prescription drugs on daily basis. Although‚ these prescriptions are prescribed by their doctors many insurance companies did not have coverage
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fronts. Margins are low and the need to control cost is critical. This paper will give an overview of the multiple facets that comprise the healthcare industry and how their role has contributed to the US national health expenditure totaling 2.5 trillion dollars in 2009 (National Health Expenditure Data‚ 2009). The paper will also provide financial insight contributing to the current crisis that the
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citizens in the U.S. want affordable health care that will be able to help themselves and their family members. The purpose of health care is to facilitate the delivery of health care services‚ to protect individual and families against huge medical care expenses‚ and to avoid breaking national bank while they do so. In the U.S.‚ private insurance system actually interferes with the delivery of health care and is rapidly becoming too expensive. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) also known as Obamacare‚
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The Health Care Reform Bill is legislation that would change health care in the United States. This bill calls for the creation of health insurance exchanges that would allow individuals and small businesses to purchase insurance on a sliding scale based on income. These state based exchanges would be subsidized by the federal government the amount subsidized would again be based on income. It calls for some of the funding to come from a tax on investment income of 3.8%‚ an excise tax on high end
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appropriate care as well as preventive services‚ which enable her to continue balancing the many hats that she is wearing in modern society. With the new health reform law‚ passed by President Obama in March of 2010‚ this new law holds the potential to expand women’s access to health insurance coverage and make reforms that may strengthen the health care systems ability to serve millions of women (Access to Coverage 2010). This research paper examines the affects the new healthcare reform bill will
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