Affordable Care Act working?," which was written by Margot Sanger-Katz and was published in the New York Times. The article takes a look at whether the Affordable Care Act, which came into effect a year ago, has had the desired impacts. The author b Continue Reading...
Affordable Care Act (ACA) On March 2010, the U.S. Congress passed the Patient Affordable Care Act (ACA), a portion of legislation intended to redesign the nation's healthcare framework and amplify health protection to a huge number of uninsured Amer Continue Reading...
To make matters worse the stagnant economy means that more people are requiring assistance. In most cases, different demographics of consumers are unable to afford health care coverage. This is because of the abusive practices that are used by the i Continue Reading...
Affordable Care Act (ACA) • Differentiate between at least three groups of stakeholders impacted by the ACA. Obamacare or the ACA (Affordable Care Act) was primarily designed and put into effect in the year 2010 with an objective of offering bet Continue Reading...
References http://kff.org/health-reform/perspective/can-we-learn-from-aca-implementation-and-improve-the-law/Altman, D. (2013). Can We Learn From ACA Implementation and Improve the Law? Retrieved June 8th, 2013, from the Affordable Care Act: From Continue Reading...
Obamacare good for the economy? The issue must be looked at from three points-of-view, One the development that goes on in the health care and how the policy ahs affected the health care industry and particularly various sections of the society, se Continue Reading...
When the Affordable Care Act was upheld by the Supreme Court, several people commended the Court for refusing to remove the only social protection they had which was established and improved by the New Deal as well as the Great Society. The Hou Continue Reading...
Obamacare, or formally known as the Affordable Care Act, is a recent healthcare law that will reach its implementation stage in 2014. Healthcare is certainly a fundamental necessity and indispensable to a growing human population. The United States i Continue Reading...
Conservatives consistently argue for less and less support of the poor and those who cannot fully care for themselves, like children, the elderly, and those with disabilities while progressives argue precisely the opposite. Indeed, this is one of th Continue Reading...
Growth and Changes in Nursing Now that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the law of the land, nurses can expect to have even more responsibility and even more opportunities to use their skills. This paper reviews how the restructuring of the U.S. he Continue Reading...
Policy, Politics and Global Health Trends The Affordable Care Act The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was recently signed into law in America. This public policy impacts all citizens of the U.S.A. And has been controversial from its inception, not only b Continue Reading...
Affordable Health Care Act Impact of the affordable health care act The affordable health care act, commonly referred to as Obamacare, brought a set of health care reforms aimed at making health consumers to be responsible for their health care. Th Continue Reading...
Veterans and the Affordable Healthcare Act The veterans suffer various challenges emanating from their roles they actively in the battle frontlines. They suffer mental problems like the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, anxiety, aggr Continue Reading...
Congressperson The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 has become a contentious political issue, which I am sure your office is well aware of. As a future health care administrator and as an American citizen in your constituency, I w Continue Reading...
healthcare services, many people could encounter some form of discrimination on the basis of their race, gender, or even sexual orientation. Discrimination in healthcare may seem like it is not something that is a major issue. However, it absolutely Continue Reading...
Affordable Care Act decreased the number of Americans without health insurance by the millions, which was its primary objective. It used three different mechanisms to achieve this goal -- the expansion of Medicaid, the insurance exchanges, and the ex Continue Reading...
Working Poor In his book, The Working Poor: Invisible in America, David K. Shipler investigates the often-ignored plight of working Americans who struggle with poverty. Shipler describes the combination of low-paying, dead end jobs and a vicious cyc Continue Reading...
Healthcare Delivery System Challenges The American healthcare system has been criticized as favoring the middle and upper classes while ignoring the lower classes. Based on these speculations, the federal government has constantly tried to institut Continue Reading...
Uninsured Population Insurance Premiums Budget Deficits Healthcare Trends Public Opinion "Obamacare" The topic of this research is "PPACA- Patient Protection an Affordable Care Act." PPACA has created a great impact in the healthcare industry Continue Reading...
Individual Mandate Policy Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010: Individual mandate Supreme Court's recent upholding of the individual mandate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 was deemed to be an essential co Continue Reading...
787,000 young Americans were added to the population of insured individuals, indicating a concentration on resource penetration in this specific population subset. Administrative Impact: The administrative implications of the Affordable Care Act a Continue Reading...
Health Care Changes and Trends The healthcare industry in currently undergoing a highly necessary phase of reform. Following the enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), hospitals, physicians, patients and economists are working to determine what Continue Reading...
United States healthcare programs to citizens compare with the healthcare provided to residents in other countries? That question will be the focus of this paper, along with the background to the decision of major health insurance companies to suppo Continue Reading...
health care industry has undergone fundamental change over the last decade. Most of the changes have occurred within the underlying business operation of the healthcare industry. These changes will ultimately effect healthcare agency administration Continue Reading...
Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis -- and the People Who Pay the Price. Brief summary of the book, including strengths and weaknesses Jonathan Cohn's "The Untold Story of America's Health-Care Crisis and the People Who Pay the P Continue Reading...
Employer Healthcare Benefit Plans More than half of the American population is covered by a comprehensive health plan of one type or another. That's approximately 160 million people. The programs that come under the above mentioned coverage include Continue Reading...
Health Care Industry In the last 10 years, health care has changed dramatically. Technology has taken over in many ways, and a lot of doctors now have their patients' records all stored electronically (St. Sauver, et al., 2013). While convenient, th Continue Reading...
Obama Care Plan Health care is undergoing a dramatic transformation and needless to say it is one of our largest industries that contribute handsomely to the Gross Domestic Product, greater demands are placed for the value of dollars that are being Continue Reading...
Health Care As human beings, our health and longevity have never been better. Many people today live to 100 years and beyond, and often in good and active health. One of the major reasons for this is better health care and more access to health care Continue Reading...
American Health Care After leading the world in the health of its citizens throughout most of the 20th century, the United States has fallen behind virtually all other wealthy nations in that regard, not to mention having fallen behind several nati Continue Reading...
Public health service: A renewed debate on the role of health Insurance Nine pillars of the Affordable Care Act The upside of the Affordable Care Act Health reform for masses Challenges posed by the ACA Public health service: A renewed debate on Continue Reading...
Health Care Cost and Quality The objective of this study is to examine the relationship between health care cost and quality. This study will select one public agency and one private agency and differentiate their roles and major activities in addr Continue Reading...
health care in the United States has been the source of heated debate for a number of years. Although the publicity surrounding the issue has been considerable and made to look like it is a recent problem facing the nation, the problem, in reality, Continue Reading...
Access to Healthcare Ensuring Access to Healthcare The healthcare industry has been subject to a vast number of changes just in the last few years and the system is quickly evolving. One of the most influential changes that the healthcare system ha Continue Reading...
President Clinton's And Obama's Health Care Policies President Obama's Healthcare policies The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has drawn some comparisons to elements of past efforts, including Mitt Romney's health care plan in Massachusetts and the Clint Continue Reading...
Health Care Reform Federal Deficit The American Health Care Crisis and the Federal Deficit The United States spends more than any other country on medical care. In 2006, U.S. health care spending was $2.1 trillion, or 16% of our gross domestic prod Continue Reading...
Registered nurses are both qualified, educated, and certified to provide a high quality of various care services that an individual may need in a home setting or elsewhere. Hence, providing these practitioners with the power to certify and provide h Continue Reading...
Not only do these practices discourage preventative care and monitoring, they also diminish the quality of the good that insured individuals are buying from the health insurance companies. Insured individuals are paying for insurance and paying for Continue Reading...
Healthcare Government Regulations The role of government regulatory agencies and government regulations in general is particularly important in health care. The reasons for this are many, but the most important of those reasons is that health care d Continue Reading...
Universal Healthcare Universal Health Care for America: How a Socialist Model Can Work in a Democratic Country The possibility of a universal health care system in the United States seems distant at times. Yet as more and more youths graduate coll Continue Reading...
