PROS The Affordable Care Act has been the viable solution for refining and offering quality and affordable health care for all those who have long been excluded out of the healthcare system. For this paper‚ the most influential of these benefits will be addressed. Those benefits include the realization of more citizens gaining access to affordable healthcare‚ pre-existing health conditions no longer impeding healthcare coverage‚ and the improved quality of patient care. More Americans Have
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Affordable Care Act Topics Joseph L. Mitchell‚ Jr. January 22‚ 2014 HCS/490 Dr. Michael Minor Summaries The Marketplace is a new method of finding health coverage that best fits an individuals needs and budget. Prior to the Affordable Care Act being approved‚ individuals were not able to acquire health insurance benfits as easily as it is now. Individuals simply apply for coverage based on options that available on the Marketplace website. Regardless of the state one lives in‚ he or she
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The Affordable Healthcare Act: Analysis of the Affects on Medicare Coverage and Medical Care Cost Abstract This paper explores the anticipated affects of The Affordable Healthcare Act‚ on Medicare coverage and the overall cost of medical care. This paper will serve to provide a succinct overview of the expected changes. The Affordable Healthcare Act: Analysis of the Affects on Medicare Coverage and Medical Care Cost For many decades there
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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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Controversial Affordable Care Act: Good or bad? Affordable Care Act‚ also known as Obamacare‚ was signed in to law by President Obama on 23rd March‚ 2010 and the Health Insurance Exchange Marketplace just opened on 1st October‚ 2013. Some people disagree with this new law by saying that Obamacara would increase taxes and Obama is socialist. Is Obamacare really bad for American people? I think that Obamacare has more advantages than disadvantages for several reasons. First of all‚ the universal
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Affordable Care Act and the Rural American The United States in the past month has gone through a rollercoaster ride of events‚ from government shutdown to fiscal cliff deadline. All of these fall short to the main focus of this paper. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) will affect every person in the United States however; I will focus on the benefits of the ACA on the rural American. The ACA was passed in 2010. On October 1st‚ 2013 the Patient Protection and Affordable Care
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conducted on the advantages and disadvantages of single-patient rooms in healthcare facilities. (a) Single-patient rooms can cause shorter length of stay for the patients. (b) There is a decrease in infectious bacteria in healthcare facilities with single-patient rooms. (c) Single-patient rooms may increase less disturbance from other patients‚ privacy‚ comfort and provides the patients the ability to regulate their environment. Single-patient rooms are beginning to be popular in healthcare facilities
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111TH CONGRESS " 2d Session LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL ! PRINT 111–1 COMPILATION OF PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT [As Amended Through May 1‚ 2010] INCLUDING PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT HEALTH-RELATED PORTIONS OF THE HEALTH CARE EDUCATION RECONCILIATION ACT OF 2010 AND PREPARED BY THE Office of the Legislative Counsel FOR THE USE OF THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MAY 2010 June 9‚ 2010 VerDate 0ct 09 2002 14:17 Jun 09‚ 2010 Jkt 000000 PO
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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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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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