THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT Impact of the Affordable Care Act The patient protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) is expected to have a major impact on the financing of healthcare‚ principally by expanding insurance coverage to approximately 32 million of the current 50.7 million uninsured by 2014. If the goal is reached‚ 95% of all Americans will have health insurance (Kovner& Knickman‚ 2011). The Affordable Care Act will expand coverage in two key ways: expanding Medicaid eligibility and
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APHI HEATLHCARE INITIATIVE Access Plus Health Care Initiative Your Name Here Your University Abstract This report is a summary of all the findings of the Medical Liaison officer for the APHI board. This summary is meant to be a review of the feasibility of expanding into the California region. This report will review the history of healthcare in the region‚ the feasibility financial wise of expanding into the region‚ and finally how the government in the region has influenced
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Executive Summary on The Affordable Care Act The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the new health care reform law otherwise known as ObamaCare. The ACA attempts to reform the healthcare system through affordable quality health insurance‚ and by reducing the increase of healthcare spending. Reforms include new benefits‚ rights and protections‚ rules for insurance companies‚ taxes‚ tax breaks‚ funding‚ spending‚ the creation of committees‚ education‚ new job creation‚ and more. The main components of
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The Affordable Care Act It has been asked if healthcare is a right or privilege‚ with the Affordable Care Act‚ coming into play it would appear to be no choice in the matter. Everyone will have to have some type of insurance coverage or pay a penalty. Congress is having a hard time trying to decide how to fund on this bill. Will the bill help or hurt America? Some issues I see are how will it hurt the small business owner‚ will some Americans lose full time job status so that the business owner
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Throughout American history congress has had to resolve problems that arose nation wide. Pell Grants‚ created in 1972‚ and the Affordable Care Act of 2010 are just two of the legislations created to solve some of the United States economic problems. Although these two solutions were both initiated to boost America’s economy and to support low income families‚ the reason for the intervention of the government and their results differ. Affording a post high school education has always been a struggle
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Affordable Health Care Act By Cecily Blakely Macroeconomics Mr. Mirijanian March 1st‚ 2014 Affordable Health Care Act Purpose Statement Health care reform has been a budding issue within the United States this past year‚ and problems continue to surface. At the beginning of this process‚ Americans wanted the government to ensure that all citizens would be able to have affordable and good health care‚ no matter what their financial situation. The price for health care was increasing at
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Making Health Care Affordable: Lack of insurance in the United States leads to unnecessary deaths‚ loss of work‚ and unemployment due to disabilities‚ driving the country into debt taking on the emergency room fees piled up by the uninsured not being able to pay their bills‚ therefore‚ America desperately needs to implement a universal health care program like the health care programs in other developed nations around the world. Health care in a developed nation such as the United States of America
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is a United States federal statute that was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23‚ 2010. This particular law has come with much controversy. The law (along with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010) is the principal health care reform legislation of the 111th United States Congress. PPACA reforms certain aspects of the private health insurance industry and public health insurance programs‚ increases insurance
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policies of affordable health care act affect many different populations in various ways. Making the health coverage mandatory to everyone was the biggest change that everyone had to face. Many individuals were not happy because they were required to have health coverage‚ and some of the US population felt that their freedom of choice was violated by this act. However‚ the group that benefited the most was the individuals with pre-existing conditions. Prior to affordable health care act the health insurance
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High Costs of Health Care & Affordable Care Act Kanakavelan Gothandaraman DeSales University Professor: Dr. Tahereh Alavi Hojjat FD505 – Microeconomics (Fall-2013) High Costs of Health Care & Affordable Care Act Table of Contents Abstract 3 Literature Review 4 Conclusion 7 References 9 Abstract In last two decades the world has seen almost all extreme scenarios of economic growth and collapse. The growth started with the communication boom in early 1990’s and followed by internet
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