President Obama made hundreds of campaign promises. Obama’s health care task was among his most powerful and important. Several weeks after his inauguration, he moved to satisfy his health care pledge. He wanted the new bill to reflect his eight principles: guarantee choice, make health coverage affordable, protect families’ financial health, invest in prevention and wellness, provide portable coverage, aim for universality, improve patient safety and quality care, and maintain long-term fiscal sustainability (8 Simple Rules, 2009). President Obama used every traditional tool to achieve a very difficult piece of legislation. The healthcare reform law, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), was enacted in March 2010 (Frontline, 2010). The PPACA and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 are commonly known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Together, these acts are designed to reform health care in America (Day, 2010). The PPACA is a large and complex law with some effects already implemented and with some to be phased in over the next seven years. Starting in 2010, according to the American Nurses Association (ANA), the PPACA states young adults will be able stay on their parents' insurance until their 26th birthday, and insurers will be barred from imposing exclusions on children with pre-existing conditions; lifetime limits on benefits and restrictive annual limits will be prohibited; new plans issued after 2009 must provide coverage for preventive services without co-pays; high risk pools will cover uninsured adults with pre-existing health conditions until health care coverage exchanges are operational; seniors will get a $250 rebate to help fill the "doughnut hole" in Medicare prescription drug c... ... middle of paper ... ...Retrieved September 15, 2011, from http://www.wid.org 8 simple rules for health system reform: A new sounding board [Editorial]. (2009, May 4). Retrieved September 16, 2011, from http://www.ama-assn.org Frontline. (2010, April 13). Obama’s deal [Video file]. Retrieved from http://video.pbs.org Institute of Medicine. (2011). The future of nursing: Leading change, advancing health. Retrieved September 17, 2011, from http://www.rwjf.org Miller, A. (2010, March 22). FAQ: How health care reform will affect you. Retrieved September 17, 2011, from http://www.webmd.com Thomson Reuters. (2010, March 19). US healthcare bill would provide immediate benefits [Factbox]. Retrieved September 16, 2011, from http://www.reuters.com U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. (n.d.). Timeline: What’s changing and when. Retrieved September 17, 2011, from http://www.healthcare.gov
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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was enacted in 2010 and was designed to insure millions of people, who did not have health insurance, reduce out-of-pocket expenses for families and reduce costs for small businesses. In essences, when enrollment opens in 2013, the ACA law will target the 42 million Americans that according to a Census Bureau Survey are uninsured (Klein, 2014). Indeed, Obama Care from a utilitarian point of view is a huge improvement in medical services to a larger proportion of the population, that prior to this law did not have insurance available to them, including improved availability of health care services and reigning in out of control insurance companies.
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Affordable health care law or Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is the novel commandment that touches the practice of public health or community health nursing. PPACA, also known as the Affordable Care Act, (ACA) is a united State federal decree signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. The ACA proposal emphasizes three foremost approaches: 1). Dropping costs and increasing productivity so the organization works. 2). Proposing inexpensive, manageable coverage for everybody. 3). Accentuating deterrence agendas in the public health setting (Anderson, K. 2009).
As I began watching Reinventing Healthcare-A Fred Friendly Seminar (2008), I thought to myself, “man, things have changed since 2008.” And as the discussion progressed, I started to become irritated by how little had changed. The issues discussed were far-reaching, and the necessity for urgent change was a repeated theme. And yet, eight years later, health care has made changes, but many of its crucial problems still exist.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed by President Barack Obama is a significant change of the American healthcare system since insurance plans programs like Medicare and Medicaid (“Introduction to”). As a result, “It is also one of the most hotly contested, publicly maligned, and politically divisive pieces of legislation the country has ever seen” (“Introduction to”). The Affordable Care Act should be changed because it grants the government too much control over the citizen’s healthcare or the lack of individual freedom to choose affordable health insurance.
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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a federal that was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010 to systematically improve, reform, and structure the healthcare system. The ACA’s ultimate goal is to promote the health outcomes of an individual by reducing costs. Previously known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the ACA was established in order to increase the superiority, accessibility, and affordability of health insurance. President Obama has indicated the ACA is fully paid for and by staying under the original $900 billion dollar budget; it will be able to provide around 94% of Americans with coverage. In addition, the ACA has implemented that implemented that insurance companies can no longer deny c...
The major goal and crowning achievement of Obamacare was the ability to provide healthcare to those who would not be insured otherwise. “Supporters of the PPACA [Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act] argue that the law is good policy that will finally make healthcare affordable and accessible [to] ordinary Americans” (“Affordable” 8). In order to make widespread health coverage become a reality, a large enrollment with various signers to Obamacare would be essential. The main targets were young people, so that Obamacare would carry on with the newer generations, and people who were in need of the health care, but did not have access to it. However, after the first five months, the results had not been promising: “just 25% of enrollees were between the ages 18 and 34 -- well below the 33% to 40% most experts believe is needed to create a balanced...