Access to health care
A healthy society is a powerful and boisterous society. Health in the recent past has become one of the major headaches of most governments. With the increasing number of strange diseases and food insecurities, governments and organizations have made it a priority to work hard in order to ensure that the society is healthy. This paper is therefore is about an analysis of one of the state and federal policies that have been formulated to ensure health to certain groups. For this specific paper, the analysis shall be made on the affordable care act and HIV/AIDS.
The affordable care Act was signed on the 23rd of March, 2010 with an aim to help the Americans have an access to a secure, affordable and a stable health insurance (Emanuel, 2015). This policy has also been a very key legislation for the fight against HIV/AIDS in the United States of America. Analyzing this policy, it is a wonderful policy based on the key objectives for which the policy was made.
The ACA policy is also very timely and effective since it has been able to improve the access to medical coverage for the U.S citizens and also to enhance the capacity of the healthcare delivery system (Tate, 2012). This includes the expansion of community healthcare centers and the delivery of culturally competent care.
The negative impacts of this policy is that it requires a very heavy investment and therefore it has made the citizens to incur the burden of an increased taxation (Gruber & Newquist, 2011). It has also made the health sector to be very expensive and quite unaffordable for the majority of the citizens. This means that there is a need for the government and other stake holders to come up with a counter plan on how to maintain an affordable quality health for its citizens.
Work cited.
Emanuel, E. J. (2015). Reinventing American health care: How the Affordable Care Act will improve our terribly complex, blatantly unjust, outrageously expensive, grossly inefficient, error prone system. New York, NY : PublicAffairs
Tate, N. J. (2012). ObamaCare survival guide. West Palm Beach, FL: Humanix Books.
Gruber, J., & Newquist, H. P. (2011). Health care reform: What it is, why it's necessary, how it works. New York: Hill and Wang.
