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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The Affordable Health Care Act: A solution that addresses the importance of health promotion and non-communicable disease prevention in a globalizing world economy. According to the World Health Organization‚ health encompasses the direct and indirect factors that affect physical‚ mental‚ and social well-being‚ which includes the ability to function within the context of the political‚ economic‚ social‚ environmental‚ cultural‚ ecological‚ agricultural‚ demographical‚ scientific research‚ ethical
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The Affordable Care Act approved by President Obama in March 2010 brought remarkable benefits for senior citizens. This law allows seniors to take better care of their health because it offers them discounts in some medical services‚ improving overall their current Medicare program. Before the Affordable Health Act was approved‚ millions of seniors were having trouble to pay their prescriptions since they fell into a coverage gap known as the “Doughnut Hole”. In these cases‚ seniors had to pay
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federal and state governments that reimburse hospital and physician for providing care to qualified patients who cannot afford medical expense. To qualify for Medicaid he or she must be a United States or resident citizen which‚ includes low income adults and their children‚ people with certain disabilities and senior citizens. “Medicaid and Medicare is overlooked by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid‚ they monitor how the states funded programs” (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services‚ 2010.pg
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Health Care Access in Arizona Heidi Haugen Grand Canyon University: HCA 255 February 1‚ 2015 Health Care Access in Arizona Recently the Untied States top priority has been to provide accessible and affordable health care to every American. Those that lack access to coverage find it much more difficult to seek proper treatment and when they do they maybe left with astronomical medical bills. The CommanWealth Fund found that one-third or thirty three percent of Americans forgo health care because
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Affordable health-care has been a controversial topic for many years‚ and the debate over health-care and what to do began when former President Barack Obama promised to make health insurance affordable for all. Health-care companies had long opposed such a reform‚ but Obama was able to create a deal in which health-care companies would expand the pool of insurance subscribers to cover their costs—agreeing to neither deny coverage to those with preexisting conditions nor imposing higher rates. In
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I can relate to all the confusing surrounding all the rules of the Affordable health. However‚ affordable health care ought to be ubiquitous and responsive to changes in consumer demand (Mokhtai‚ 2016). Providing affordable health care by reducing out-of-pocket costs‚ and encouraging prevention‚ maintenance‚ and promotion of health are essential elements of promoting the health of nation. A patient-centered health care system should enable patients to act as sovereign consumers‚ but a health care
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strengthening health care is important‚ but access alone is a major one. Individuals and families having access to quality health and health services is important to maintain good health‚ treating disease‚ and taking measures towards preventing different tragedies from happening. Also‚ having access to health care impacts a patients overall social‚ mental and physical wellbeing. There are barriers in health care that lead to no insurance coverage‚ high cost of care‚ inadequate care‚ lack of culturally
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Affordable Health Care Act Name of Professor Institution Affiliation Affordable Health Care Act According to the journal ‘The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing’ Sorrell attempts to ascertain how legislature‚ individual and communities struggle to enact health care reforms that are upheld constitutionally in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The health care act was first enacted in 2010. The Affordable Care Act outlines important ethical reforms of justice that provide
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factors within a family unit can affect a family’s ability to access and utilize appropriate healthcare resources. According to Bodenheimer and Grumbach‚ (2012) access to health care is affected by many factors such as the ability to pay for services‚ availability of medical members‚ the location of the facility‚ and the availability of transportation to reach these services (p. 17). All of these factors can have a significant impact a family’s ability to meet their health care needs. These factors do
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