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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Abstract This paper explorers the economic effects of the Affordable Care Act on healthcare‚ specifically small business. The sources vary from academic‚ peer-review articles to journalism pieces. Statistics and charts have been done on this subject and spread across a wide array of subjects in correlation with the Affordable Care Act. This paper looks at the effects on insurance companies and in turn‚ the insurance companies effects on small healthcare businesses.
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Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Affordable Care Act) Passage of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 by Congress‚ followed by it’s signing by President Obama on March 30‚ 2010‚ completes a massive overhaul of the nation’s health insurance and health delivery systems. The Reconciliation Act amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010‚ which President Obama signed on March 23. Combined‚ the two new laws include more than $400 billion in
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and leading causes of death in America. Impact of Affordable Care Act of 2010 The Affordable Care Act is a health care reform law‚ which was made to make healthcare affordable and available to more people. “An estimated 30 million Americans were expected to gain health insurance through the Affordable Care Act” (HERITAGE) causing many people who suffer from chronic diseases to now have coverage for their medical needs. The Affordable Care Act helped with getting people properly diagnosed with
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the marginal benefits do not outweigh the costs companies are deciding to do away with the premium plan and look for one that meets the government’s thresholds. The government has made marginal changes with regard to its action plan for the Affordable Care Act and companies have been utilizing rational thought processes by evaluating the marginal costs and benefits of the 40% tax that will
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The Affordable Care Act is the comprehensive health care reform law enacted in March 2010. Also‚ known as “Obomacare”‚ the Affordable Care Act has three primary goals. These goals include making affordable health insurance available to more people‚ expand Medicaid program to cover all adults with income below 138 percent of the federal poverty level‚ and support innovative medical care delivery methods designed to lower the costs of health care generally.1 The reason that the affordable care act included
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I believe there are positives and negatives with the affordable care act. The Affordable care act was enacted in 2010 and its main focus revolves around the idea that "healthcare is a right‚ not a privilege" (Wilbanks‚ 2014). In the 5 years since the ACA was enacted‚ about 3 million uninsured people under 26 have become insured through their parents and more than 30 million Americans are now insured thanks to the additional protections against preexisting conditions and terminating policies due
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This holds true because in 2008 George W. Bush signed the GINA Act‚ which is the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act. This act protects Americans from receiving discrimination from employers and health providers because of the genetics they have received from family traits. Pre-2008 it was quite common to see people with inherited conditions
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The Affordable Care Act has its good meaning in providing access to health care system‚ prohibiting insurance companies in denying healthcare coverage to ill people and increasing the healthcare cost‚ and promoting Medicaid expansion to people with incomes up to 133% of the federal poverty level. However‚ there are many flaws‚ such as personal mandate and penalty and social injustice‚ in passing this law. Many people may believe that the Congress has a power to declare personal mandate to have health
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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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