Benefits Update: Implementing the New Health Plan Laws. This article covers significant developments in late 2011 and 2012 employee benefits‚ including employment taxes‚ executive compensation‚ health and welfare benefits‚ including employment rate taxes‚ and qualified plans. This article focuses on guidance released and changes to the rules for group health plans as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is commonly called
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Affordable Care Act: Anything but Affordable The Affordable Care Act is a piece of legislation that aims to extend healthcare coverage to millions of Americans. This bill has divided the nation and in some circles discussions end in bitter arguments. Those that support the bill feel it is the nation’s moral duty to grant everybody coverage‚ and many of those that oppose the bill are alarmed at the fiscal implications it brings. The Affordable Care Act was summarized by Avik Roy as follows: Some
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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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Contemporary Health Care Issue: The Affordable Care Act Mary Kennedy Grand Canyon University HCA 530 Healthcare Policies and Economics Professor Steve Klense Contemporary Health Care Issue: The Affordable Care Act Introduction More than 45 million Americans are uninsured. Even those that do have health insurance often face financial and other barriers when getting healthcare. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) removes most of these financial barriers (Kocher‚ Emanuel‚ & DeParle‚ 2010). The
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| HEALTH BRIEF | Effective Community Mental Health Care in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act | | Guadalupe Bernardez-Hicks | 1/20/2011 | | HEALTH BRIEF Effective Community Mental Health Care in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act By Guadalupe Bernardez-Hicks INTRODUCTION: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA)‚ includes expansion of mental health services available
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Public Health Nurses are known to bring his/her leadership and management expertise to the community for a better recovery after catastrophic events. According to Stanley et al.‚ “public health nurses are leaders in policy and planning to ensure that the communities they serve received prioritized and actionable solutions to their health and social problems.” The long-term environmental effects of catastrophic event are healthcare infrastructure loss such as damage of hospitals‚ clinics‚ pharmacies
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The Affordable Care Act The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is considered to be one of the most radical health care moves in legislation after Medicare. The reason being that it will provide universal health coverage to everyone regardless of circumstance. An evaluation of ACA’s influence on health care will be evaluated in this paper. The Cost of Health Care As the new healthcare law takes effect insurance premiums are expected to rise. On average for the last six years insurances premiums have
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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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purpose of this assignment is to select a particular legislation and to relate it to the role of the nurse by drawing on relevant literature as well as learning log entries. The legislation chosen for this assignment is the Mental Health Act MHA (1983) and the reason is because of the chosen field for practice. Under this Act‚ individuals suffering from mental illness can be admitted and detained into psychiatric hospital for treatment against their will (Dimond‚ 2011). This particular law has a number
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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has become the most controversial topic‚ and the most important health care problem facing the American people today. As a Health care Administrator the Affordable Care Act (ACA) affects the everyday job function. Nonetheless‚ the debates taking place in the future of the Affordable Care Act keep us paying attention to what is taking place. Health Administrator has to know all of the latest changes taking place. Strategies‚ job functions and health laws will all have
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