...One provision of the Affordable Care Act that I am particularly in favor of, is the coverage of preventative care without being charged a copay or coinsurance (Fox & Shaw, 2014). These include specific serves for adults, children, and pregnant women. I have talked many times about the importance of preventative care. Not only is preventative care beneficial to the patient, but it can also help combat the soaring cost associated with healthcare. Having insurance coverage has always had an effect on the use of preventative services (Siu, Bibbins-Domingo, Grossman, 2015). There are now 63 preventive services covered under the ACA (Preventive Services, 2014). Studies have shown that 100,000 lives could be saved annually if people would utilize these preventative care services (Fox & Shaw, 2014). And even more impressive 9 out of 10 deaths could have...
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...Patients living in poverty face multiple barriers to quality healthcare. The concept of “primary care …as a regular source of care characterize by continuity, comprehensiveness, co-ordination, availability and convenience” is a foreign concept (Wetta-Hall, et-al., 2005, p. 12). The Affordable Care Act (ACA) seeks to partially address this issue by providing insurance to all Americans. The case study identified that as a result of the poor having insurance “primary care increased but use of emergency services fell, and over time total health care costs declined” (Total health care, 2012). When the uninsured needed healthcare regardless of urgency they used the familiar and convenient emergency department which was substantially more expensive...
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...Lack of direct payment or low payment rates discourage many nurse practitioners from establishing or leading independent primary care centers (6). Restrictive state scope-of-practice laws impede the ability of NP’s to work efficiently and can pose significant barriers to care delivery (6). Policy makers may wish to consider two main approaches if they wish to alter the opportunities for NP’s to meet the needs of a collapsing primary care workforce: state legislative and payer reforms are a necessity. Our patients deserve a health policy that is able to meet their needs in the coming year. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) policy seeks to move the U.S. health care system from a fee-for service system based on volume and quantity to a payment model...
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...This study determines the possible effects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on a large WWAMI (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho) medical education program which trains primary care health professionals for rural regions. Under the ACA, demand for primary care health professionals increases as more people will get health coverage. Medical schools are accepting more students to satisfy this demand, but there are limits on graduate medical education and residency positions are also limited. This will still result in insufficient supply. The authors examine the impact of ACOs (Accountable Care Organizations) on this program and resulting challenges in the recruitment and retention of health care workforce. The program currently focuses...
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...According to the U.S Health and Human Services website, the Affordable Care Act was designed to put the consumer back in charge of their own healthcare through comprehensive health reforms. The goal was to make healthcare more affordable and to provide accessible, higher quality healthcare to families, seniors, businesses, and taxpayers. The program includes those Americans without insurance and those with inadequate coverage on their existing plans. The plan has been also called “Obama Care” as it was enacted under the leadership of President Obama. 1 Medicaid, which currently covers nearly 50 million low-income Americans is a federal/state partnership of which all 50 states participate. Significant variations exist among states, however, they must meet federal minimum requirements. The Affordable Care Act of 2010, expanded Medicaid to all...
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...Chauncey, For Americans that have never had healthcare coverage or are currently getting by without it, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) could forever change their lives. This is because treatment and cures, they may not have had otherwise, will now be available to them. Additionally, “ACA insurance expansions could greatly decrease out-of-pocket spending for low-income adults seeking primary care” (Saloner, Polsky, Kenney, Hempstead & Rhodes, 2015, p. 773). This is because the working poor have income and sliding fee schedules often suggest paying more than their life situation may allow. Yes, consumers will drive health care in the future. However, it will be the responsibility of people in position of influence to keep the cost reasonable...
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...• How did politics shape the outcome in unexpected ways? The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is an example on how legislative procedures works and how that procedure help shape the legislative history in unexpected ways. Congress, signed into law by the President Obama in March 2010, passed the Affordable Care Act. A few years later the Supreme Court rendered a final decision to uphold the health care law. Prior to passing the Affordable Care Act into law, President Obama had requested over $30 billion for the National Institutes of Health so that it could continue to work towards Alzheimer’s disease research. • Did “pork” spending or “apportionments and allotments” budget amendments affect the legislation? Pork spending is when government...
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...The Affordable Care Act was one of the largest undertaking piece of legislation that the United States government has ever put together and implemented. The three branches of Government consists of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government. These branches are to be a checks and balance for each other to ensure that the American people best interest is kept at the forefront of the decisions made in Washington (McLennan, 2011). The executive branch of the federal government has the responsibility of creating and developing a process for how a piece of legislation would it affect the American people and give the directive on how that piece of legislation should look and be instituted. The Congressional or legislative branch...
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...Impact of Affordability on Access to Health Care Services: a Case Study of Texas Introduction Access to healthcare arguably forms an integral aspect of human existence. However, in recent times, access to health care appears to have been militated by Health care and health insurance laws, the US policies on health insurances, earnings of an individual and a host of other factors. Although the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) appears to serve as a partial force which enables people to have access to health care if earnings are below the stipulated national minimum wage, however the extent to which this solve this situation is still a subject of controversy (Sommers, Buchmueller, Decker, Carey, & Kronick,...
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...Research Database YOU SEARCHED : Affordable Care Act research topics 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 [...] Universal Health Care, A Moral Duty This 11 page research paper offers a current overview of the issues associated with the topic of universal healthcare provision and the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Universal health care as a moral and ethical duty is stressed. Bibliography lists 11 sources. Minimum Wage, Healthcare Reform A 3 page research paper that covers two topics. The first half of the paper presents the history of the federally mandated minimum wage, and the second half discusses the Supreme Court's announcement that it will rule on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's required mandate for all Americans to purchase health insurance. Bibliography lists 2 sources. ESRD in NC, Access to Care for Underprivileged A 4 page research paper that examines the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and how it impacts care for underprivileged patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD). Bibliography lists 2 sources. Health Care Changes Resulting from the PPACA In a paper of ten pages, the author writes about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The author of this paper considers four changes within health care as a result of the act including changes of private insurance, changes for the state regulations, the individual mandate provision, also age related coverage and preexisting conditions. There are three sources cited...
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...Increasing health plan premium costs are a growing burden for the employers who choose to provide health insurance coverage to employees. For small business owners operating on limited budgets, these increases are even more significant. The passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) creates additional responsibilities for employers regarding the minimum requirements and pricing of insurance plans for employees. Employers make difficult decisions to determine how to continue to provide health insurance at a fair and reasonable price, without harming the small business. The case study by Spencer (2014) examines the options of small business owners, John and Liza, faced with a 25% increase in health insurance rates. Once it is determined that the increase is due to the age and health status of several employees, the owner must decide whether to penalize certain employees with increased contributions, or have all workers absorb the added costs equally. In addition, there is concern that hiring a potential new employee, Robert, will increase insurance rates even further due to the pre-existing health condition of his spouse. It is challenging to select an option that has a fair and balanced impact on the company and its employees. While financially it is easiest for the company to have each employee absorb the cost of the premium increase, this is not a fair option if premium increases for all are due to the lifestyle factors of a small representation. There is an increased risk of...
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...ESSAY ASSIGNMENT ESSAY #1 DOMESTIC MARKET Health care reform is a political and economic topic that has been debated for years. Most recently in the United States under the president Barack Obama's current term he passed a law that most of us Americans refer to as Obama Care but is also known as the Affordable Care Act. This law requires every American to have some sort of health care coverage. However, is affordable health care really that affordable? There are some countries that have national health insurance systems where government uses tax revenues to provide a basic health care package. However, in America most citizens are enrolled in private health care Insurance usually provided by their employer. Health care provided by employers does come at a cost. It does drive up the cost of labor because it’s another cost incurred by the firm and sometimes the employee. Several companies I have worked for in the past have shared the cost of insurance; by doing this the firm does not incur all the costs of health care; the firm also avoids being fined for not providing health care. If the firm does not provide health care and has more than 50 employees the firm will incur of fine of $5,000. Thus, employers are essentially forced to either incur the costs of health care or pass part or all the costs onto the employee, therefore, decreasing the overall amount the employee actually makes. Some employers could use health care benefits as an enticement to keep their labor force...
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...Paper: Healthcare Services and The Affordable Care Act (ACA). Table of Contents: Abstract……………………………………………………………………………………...3 Introduction………………………………………………………………………………….3 Background of the Affordable Care Act …………………………………………………4 The Affordable Care Act………………………………………………………………….. 5 Methodology………………………………………………………………………………...8 Collection of Data…………………………………………………………………………..9 Primary………………………………………………………………………………10 Secondary…………………………………………………………………………..11 The Environmental Working Group………………………………………………………12 Primary Survey…………………………………………………………………….13 Questions and Answers…………………………………………………………...14 Findings from the collection of information and data…………………………………..15 Conclusion and recommendations……………………………………………………….17 Appendix A: SWOT Analysis……………………………………………………………..19 Appendix B: EWG’s Business Strategy …………………………………………………26 Appendix C: EWG’s Business Analyses………………………………………………...32 Appendix D: References…………………………………………………………………..37 Abstract Healthcare has been a topic of debate since a long period of time. The recent changes in the government legislation have specified some employer-based requirements for the healthcare provision to employees. Many organizations have also been impacted by the legislative amendments. The following section will cover the introductory knowledge of the Affordable Care Act along with its objectives. Furthermore, we will discuss the impact of this act has on the American society as a whole...
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...The case study shows how ones idea of making the world a better place by helping a certain demographic of people to get health care that is well needed can be challenging. After reading the case study I conclude that the needs for Mobile Medical Clinics are a great idea and they are needed to help those who can’t help themselves. I personally feel that Mobile Medical Clinics will always be needed, because we will need to take medical care to people who can’t get to it and also when there is natural disaster, being mobile has its advantages. While MMC’s are a great thing to have around, they are faced with many challenges that they need to overcome to be better efficient, especially with all the new technology and changing laws. The mobile medical clinic provides many patients with different types of medical services and requires them to attain personal information and store it properly. In order to do this there is a need for great technology. HIPPA regulates the need for security for both physical files and also electronic files. MMC’s must find the technology that is required by law to safely and securely manage personal information received from their patients. CIO Weisman wonders how MMC could offer better support and the answer for me is to offer AIDS tests because this is an ongoing epidemic that haunts a certain demographic also. Another great idea that I have seen in Alabama is the Mammogram on wheels it travels and it offers free breast exams, this would...
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...to be the best applicant for the open boat mechanic job. (Spencer, C.S. 2014) The purpose of this paper is to analyze the options for John and Liza from all angles. There are many issues in this case such as legal implications, ethical, and addressing it from a pure business standpoint. To illustrate the choices that John and Liza have let’s consider a hypothetical scenario that John and Liza employs 6 employees full time and Robert would be the 7th. Currently the company offers health care benefits paying 100% of premiums at an average cost of $5,000 per employee. OPTION 1 The company could continue to absorb the costs of the health insurance premium and do nothing. * At an estimated cost of $7,000 per employee, the company would have to absorb the full $49,000 cost or pass along part of the cost to its employees or customers. OPTION 2 The company could encourage the men to quit smoking and provide incentives for them to quit. One way to work through this is to offer sickness insurance. The main goals of the Affordable Care Act are numerous. One of the intended outcomes included – Prevention & Wellness. There are significant components of the legislation which provides incentives to provide for wellness and preventive medicine. (Summary of Affordable Care Act, April 2013) OPTION 3 They could ask the smokers to...
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