The Obama Administration’s Record on Supporting the Nursing Workforce Nurses are at the center of the American health system. There are more nurses in our country than any other type of health care provider. And they do it all‚ from delivering preventive care to our children to helping seniors manage chronic disease. There is virtually no setting where health care is delivered where you won’t find a nurse. The health care law – the Affordable Care Act – has given nurses and other health care professionals
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The Affordable Care Act was signed into law to reform the health care industry by President Barack Obama on March 23‚ 2010 and upheld by the Supreme Court on June 28‚ 2012. Obamacare’s wide variety of benefit and coverage mandates combined with new taxes‚ fees‚ and penalties will increase the cost of providing coverage. The increased costs of health insurance might lead employers with fewer than 50 employees to drop coverage if they currently offer it‚ as there is nothing in Obamacare that would
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Universal Health Care is defined as the belief that all citizens should have access to affordable‚ high-quality medical care (Anderson‚ 2013). Currently there are 46 million that do not have health coverage in the United states and this would drastically increase to 72 million if a health reform was not passed (The Economic Case for Health Care Reform‚ 2012)Why the United States is the last to adopt this government mandated insurance coverage‚ is possibly one of the most widely asked question around
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The debate about health care reform rages on with little discussion about the negative effects that all of us are likely to see. While the goals of health reform seem noble‚ an in-depth look will reveal the unintended consequences. Higher cost - Health reform focuses on forcing insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions and a myriad of other mandates for the benefit of those that have been irresponsible. Maintaining health insurance coverage long term eliminates any problems with pre-existing
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Obama Care (also known as Health Care reform) is a national health care plan aimed at reforming the American health care system. Obama Care’s main focus is on providing more Americans with access to affordable health care‚ regulating the health insurance industry and reducing spending in health care. There are around 44 million Americans who currently are unable to get health insurance. One of the major things Obama Care does is help these individuals to get health insurance through expanding Medicaid
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American household expenditure‚ health care took 5.1% in 1989‚ 5.3% in 1999 and 5.9% in 2008. According to Pipes (2010)‚ “In 2009‚ the United States spent 17.3% of its gross domestic product on healthcare‚ the highest in the world” (p. 23). In view of the statistics on the deteriorating healthcare system in the United States‚ the Obamacare was enacted in 2010. As Marcovici (2013) presents it‚ “The Obamacare‚ officially known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ‚ is a bill signed into
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President Obama’s Health Care Plan As a new health plan should‚ President Obama’s new healthcare reform is based upon the right and value of choices. In Obama’s health plan‚ the people have the right to choose if they would rather private insurance or national healthcare insurance‚ healthcare should be available to every American citizen‚ stating that no federal dollar would be spent on those labeled alien‚ and plans to create easier access to coverage. As a part of Obama’s plan‚ employers who
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The Affordable Care Act (2009) and the Health Security Act (1993) were two attempts made to reform the U.S. healthcare system. In 1993 the Clinton administration fought to better the system and provide comprehensible healthcare coverage to its citizens. This bill however was shot down in the legislative system and never made it into law. Then in 2010 the Obama administration squeezed their updated version of the bill through the House and Senate in a very narrow‚ partisan victory. The reasoning behind
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Obama’s Health Care Reform HLTH 5120 Abstract According to the Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research and Educational Trust The Health care reform’s existing position after more than a year of political debate and legislative banter‚ congress finally approved a comprehensive health reform package. President Obama signed both health care reform bills‚ which included the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. It ’s
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but I was cured in no time. For now I will keep living my healthy life style. As I first learned about the Affordable Care Act (ACA)‚ which was passed March 23‚ 2010‚ I was intrigued to hear that every American had to get it. I for one believe that the congressional republicans should continue seeking to repeal the law of Obama Care. I understand that the ACA is made to make health insurance more accessible for Americans to be provided aid for families with a low income. In fact that some of the benefits
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