The main goals of U.S. Healthcare Reform (Affordable Care Act) are providing universal healthcare access to uninsured and underinsured‚ controlling/minimizing the escalating costs of healthcare and improving the quality of healthcare. In terms of access‚ around 47 million Americans are uninsured. In terms of cost‚ healthcare cost represents more than 17% of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) which is still growing rapidly over time. In terms of quality‚ despite of new technologies‚ new treatments
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Healthcare Reform Research Paper OL-325 Marlene Maffe’ June 5‚ 2011 The objective is to understand the impact and employer cost as a result of Healthcare Reform to companies currently and what is to come in the future in Massachusetts and across the Nation. Healthcare Reform On March 23‚ 2010 President Barrack Obama signed two bills that became law; [1]The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the HealthCare and [2]Education Reconciliation Act of 2010‚ the
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Healthcare Reform and Advanced Directives To save an individual or to not save an individual‚ this is the question at hand. Many uninformed Americans are up in arms over the notion of the government forcing the elderly Medicare patient to make an advanced directive. Healthcare reform as a whole has been a highly debated topic as it should be‚ but there are many aspects of the new healthcare reform bill that have their own energized debate. An advanced directive is one of them‚ but the debate
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Disadvantages of Obama ’s heath-care reforms Introduction President Obama’s healthcare reform policy is aimed at enabling the Americans gain better control of their healthcare. Through this healthcare overhaul‚ the president aims at making healthcare insurance affordable through providing a tax cut to insurance premium for American families as well as small business owners. According to the president‚ this healthcare overhaul will make over 31 million citizens who earlier on did not access
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The Economic Opportunity of Health Care Reform National University ECO 203 – Principals of Microeconomics As the timeline unfolds for Health Care Reform (HCR)‚ it has proven to be a rough road towards change. According to the Internal Revenue Service‚ HCR was initiated by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on March 23‚ 2010 (IRS‚ 2010). Since that time‚ a number of initiatives‚ regulations‚ and important legal changes have begun to change the way health care will be implemented
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deteriorating quality of mental healthcare in Illinois. The two are directly related to one another because the adoleneces brought up in a heavyly affected crime area have little to no access to mental healthcare. As of a fact the state of Illinios closed down 6 of chicago’s ental health care facilities in 2012 to consolodilate care and the balance of the budget. The quality of mental healthcare is not a reflection of that of the United
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Patient Protection and Affordable Healthcare Act in Texas On June 28‚ 2012‚ The Supreme Court ruled the Federal Government does not have the constitutional right to sanction an individual to buy health insurance‚ but declared that the states do have the right to place a tax on citizens that do not carry insurance. This ruling is in response to President Obama’s Patient Protection and Healthcare Act of 2010. Passed on March 23‚ 2010‚ President Obama’s Reform Act mandates Texas‚ as well as the
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Healthcare reform The issue of mandating healthcare has been a hot topic for many years in the US government. Even though there is no mention of the right to healthcare in the United States Constitution. Some speculate that it is implied under the 14th Amendment‚ which states in the first section that no state shall deprive any citizen of life‚ liberty‚ or property without due process of law. Some argue that the government is violating the 14th Amendment by not making healthcare available to people
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Healthcare Reform in the United States While the United States delivers some of the best medical care in the world‚ there are major inefficiencies in our healthcare system. We have high rates of medical errors‚ millions without health insurance coverage‚ and lower utilization of advanced health information technology than most western European nations. It seems every time you turn on the evening news‚ you hear something about the healthcare system in American and how it is in shambles. Without
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McElhaney February 11‚ 2011 Abstract In this paper‚ I will discuss the effects of the health care reform on the nursing industry‚ and nurses becoming the glue to holding the new health care reform intact. Effects of the Health Reforms on Nursing The Health care reform has been a major issue over the past decade. In December‚ 2009‚ the decision was made to pass the health care reform ("ANA"‚ 2010‚ p. 10). This decision will change America forever‚ and the nursing industry will help hold
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