The Affordable Care Act (ACA) also known as ObamaCare‚ has several provisions that are intended to find solutions to underlying issues in the United States as to how the health care is delivered to patients and how the health care provided is paid for. These previsions made in the ACA focus on three broad areas: testing new delivery models and spreading successful ones‚ encouraging the shift toward payment based on the value of care provided‚ and developing resources for system wide improvement.
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Many citizens in the U.S. want affordable health care that will be able to help themselves and their family members. The purpose of health care is to facilitate the delivery of health care services‚ to protect individual and families against huge medical care expenses‚ and to avoid breaking national bank while they do so. In the U.S.‚ private insurance system actually interferes with the delivery of health care and is rapidly becoming too expensive. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) also known as Obamacare
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In light of the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)‚ how do you see these issues being corrected so that a majority of the population has access to quality health care? In the past eight years the health care system has seemed to make some form of normality within the population by created the Obamacare health system for many Americans that did not have the vita means of obtaining health insurance for themselves. This system gave many people with preexisting conditions more options that were
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Health Care Reforms The affordable care act came in to effect on March 2010. It is a four years plan that will affect the delivery of care to the 250 million Americans. (Swanton‚ 2012). The Affordable Care Act includes numerous provisions to support millions of Americans to keep the Health care costs low‚ promote preventive care such as colonoscopies and mammogram‚ and other services readily available to promote prevention of the disease and hold insurance companies accountable for the safe
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healthcare system has undergone extensive changes since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) became law‚ in some respects the system remains consistent with pre ACA-models. U.S. healthcare is still divided into varying levels of insurance‚ all of which provide a unique set of benefits and all of which also illustrate associative strengths and weaknesses. Some of the compromises associated with the ACA`s passage in 2010 reflects this latter trend. While this law ultimately expanded Medicaid benefits to non-elderly
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The Affordable Care Act is considered one of the most important health care legislation enacted in the United States since the creation of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. The law employed comprehensive reforms designed to improve the accessibility‚ affordability‚ and quality of health care.1 The ACA has not affected health outcomes directly‚ however‚ access to care has improved and readmissions rate has dropped which reflects methods of processes of care. Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services’
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Running Head: “Affordable Care Act – Assignment 3” President Obama’s Affordable Care Act – Assignment 3 Strayer University Dr. Neely PAD 510 August 25‚ 2013 Abstract This is Assignment 3 for the Affordable Care Act. This paper contains the corrected Assignment 1 and 2 as well as Assignment 3 which is the Position Paper. The Affordable Care Act is a frequently discussed topic today by Americans. The Affordable Care Act is supposed to allow all Americans to have
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Terms Comparison Paper Within the world of health care economics‚ the United States “for-profit” health care system‚ strife with inflated costs and barriers to access‚ is in a process of reform. Rising insurance premiums‚ capitation‚ and market competition that discourage the consumption of unnecessary services currently reward providers for their focus on acute‚ episodic treatments‚ rather than encouraging improved health outcomes or disease prevention. The supplier-induced market has forced
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On average obese employees pay higher health premiums and receive a higher out-of-pocket cost‚ increasing about $1000 (Christianson). This process of increasing the premium of someone who is obese is quite unethical in my eyes. I believe it to be unethical because for many who are obese‚ it normally runs in the family or they acquired it
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between public and community health. “Public health nursing focuses on populations. It is not about the setting where care is delivered. It is first and foremost a philosophy applied in any setting where populations exist” (Stanhope & Lancaster‚ 2008‚ p.191). Public health is designed to help improve the health‚ safety and welfare of the general public looking at the long term‚ prospective health of the entire public. Public health involves the health of the county‚ state and nation. Public health
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