The Act authorizes the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to contract out with private health insurers to offer at a minimum of two multi-state qualified health plans (to include at least one non-profit) to provide individual or small group cover Continue Reading...
PPACA Nurse The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's Impact on Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing: The National Quality Strategy The recently enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), a landmark and controversial piece of Continue Reading...
PPACA on Nursing Practice: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a legislation that was enacted in March 2010 as part of meaningful and comprehensive reform for America's healthcare system. Upon enactment, the legislation has had signif Continue Reading...
PPACA Two provisions in the PPACA (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) that impact my current nursing practice are 1) the call for increased access to care and 2) the call for more preventive care. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) in its Futur Continue Reading...
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act The health of a nation's population is the most important sector in the building of the nation's economy (Kovne, Knickman & Jonas, 2011). A sick nation cannot effectively produce anything substantial t Continue Reading...
Workers can opt out and as an alternative obtain coverage from their state's insurance exchange. The PPACA standards will considerably affect industries that employ part-time, provisional, seasonal and float-pool workers at length (Clarke, Keckley & Continue Reading...
new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (Reconciliation Act) will create a huge future demand for health care as millions of people who have been without health insurance Continue Reading...
PPACA On March 23, 2010 the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was signed into law by President Barack Obama. Along with the Health Care Reconciliation Act of 2010, the PPACA became part of the overall Health Care Reform concept of Continue Reading...
Healthcare Reform PPACA Determine how this Federal law will affect market-driven and non-market driven decisions. One of the industries that has felt the effects of the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act most immediately and intensely was the i Continue Reading...
PPACA and its implications on existing health care in the United States. The PPACA (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) overviews the following factors: Creates an Individual Mandate: it requires the citizens of the United States to have t Continue Reading...
Politics: Obamacare-Protection of Individuals With Pre-Existing Conditions The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) commonly referred to as Obamacare was signed into law on March 23, 2010 by President Barack Obama. The law was institut Continue Reading...
Healthcare in U.S. / Constitutionality of PPACA Meaning of Quote Constitutionality of the individual mandate PPACA Meaning of Quote The meaning of the quote "deviance is in the eye of the beholder" is that whatever is deviant to one may not be to Continue Reading...
Inpatient Care to Outpatient Care Explain the advantage or disadvantage of the movement away from inpatient care to outpatient care. Do you think this trend will eventually reverse or stabilize? Medicare's compensation solutions for out-patient as Continue Reading...
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) One of the most significant recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions was the Court's validation of the PPACA's individual mandate, requiring virtually all Americans (with some exceptions) to purchase hea Continue Reading...
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). This is more commonly referred among United States Citizens as Health Care Reform. This revolution Continue Reading...
As Cuccinelli and Getchell point out that, "The police power is the antithesis of limited, enumerated powers. Given the breadth of that power, it cannot be exercised by the federal government without overwhelming the limitations intended by the Cons Continue Reading...
Individual Mandate in PPACA On March 23, 2010 the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was signed into law by President Barack Obama. Along with the Health Care Reconciliation Act of 2010, the PPACA became part of the overall Health Ca 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...
The success of PPACA, and its provisions for people who are currently or chronically uninsured, will depend on reform of public programs as well as private insurance practices to create "new pathways to coverage (Gulley) and address the problematic Continue Reading...
Health Care Reform: In March 2010, after protracted public and political debate, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was enacted into law by President Barack Obama. This legislation was one of the many health care reforms initiati 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...
U.S. Healthcare The final legislation should have incorporated provisions to boost the IVD industry. On its entirety, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act must have benefited the IVD industry. This would have increased sales in a span of f Continue Reading...
Health Politics "What is the role of Congress in policy making process"? Policy is a plan to identify goal or possible course of actions with administrative or management tools to accomplish these goals. On the other hand, policy is the authoritati Continue Reading...
Internal & External Forces The author of this report is asked to answer to a number of questions relating to the forces that exert themselves on a nursing or other medical organization, the source of the forces and what effect they can have on o Continue Reading...
Branches When it comes to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, all three branches of the United States government play their own role when it comes to this enacted legislation. Beyond that, the idea of federalism and federal supremacy cl Continue Reading...
Unintended Consequences of Health Care Reform Consequences of Health Care Reform My discussion is related to the individual mandate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010. The policy problems addressed by the Patient Pro Continue Reading...
In the recent years, trends have emerged in the healthcare management industry, which includes patient protection, social media in healthcare, and drug shortages. Patient protection has largely been influenced by laws and policies in different nation 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...
It is true, healthcare is not free. Yet, in an environment where so many are uninsured, it is clear that the free market method of private insurance is not working. This is where the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act comes into play. All t Continue Reading...
Social, Cultural, And Political Influence in Healthcare Delivery Social, cultural, and political inequalities are detrimental to the health and healthcare system of the U.S. This is because the U.S. is one of the most multicultural, overpopulated, d 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...
Reduced costs for medical education would be the second to last alternative that would be likely to be effective. First, reducing the costs of medical eduction, through tax incentives and tuition caps, may make the medical field more attractive to Continue Reading...
NFIB vs. The Affordable Care Act The Affordable Care Act brought to the Supreme Court by 26 states of the United States to determine its constitutionality, was confirmed by the courts as was expected by many people. The case was between National Fed 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 and Legislative Issues All Americans have the desire of having a healthcare system which is capable of delivering world-class security together with financial security. The system in place should always be accessible and one that impacts the Continue Reading...
Test Development This research is a mixed methods study designed to explore the perceptions of self-identifying individuals with anxiety and depression regarding any relation between their conditions and their ability to access appropriate healthca Continue Reading...
Health Reform Act The work of Flanagan, Miller, Pagano, and Wood (2010) entitled "Employee Benefit Plan Review -- Meyerowitz, Health care Reform Is Here -- Now What?" states that health care reform laws are expected to have an impact that is signifi Continue Reading...
Mayo Clinic Influences When it comes to healthcare, it would be nice if economic and other exterior influences did not put pressure on things like quality of care and so forth. However, the propensity for politicians to squabble, the regulations and Continue Reading...
Code §70.41.250 The RCW 70.41.250 is a law that provides cost disclosure to health care providers. It is a state law that offers some control over the spiraling expenses of health care by creating transparency within hospital and medical bills Continue Reading...
