Health policy analysis was focused on the examination of Medicaid health policy – the Patients Protection and Affordable Care Act – PPACA, known also by the name “Obamacare”. The policy expands the coverage, holds insurance companies accountable, lowers health care costs, and provides more quality of health care for low-income families and individuals. Coverage prevision is being expanded. The relevant evidence and quality concerning the effectiveness of healthcare services is crucial to policy question related to clinical care and practice (Medicaid.gov, n.d.).
Methods will change with different approaches such as prevention; diagnosis, treatments and monitoring a clinical condition with improving the delivery of care to the whole population. Implications for clinical practice will be seen also in the healthcare financing and government sponsoring which will result in advance healthcare delivery with the interaction of clinical care and public health practice (Thorpe, 2010). The healthcare will be more available and the rate of uninsured in the country will decrease and the vulnerable groups will be able to get the health coverage, which will result in more public health (Damico & Garfield, 2016). Equality is however still not achieved since the PPACA is still not mandatory and the state can choose to implement the policy or not, which not according to the ethical standards where equality in the healthcare does not exist and it is still a privilege (American College of Emergency Physicians, 2011).
The options or solutions will depend on the political consent. The policy has historical roots with economic context being debated. The possible solutions can result in no change in sever change or partial change. With no change in policy and without obligatory implementation of the policy in all countries the core problem of inequality will linger and vulnerable groups will stay without the health coverage. In a case of changing the policy there is no solution seen on short time if looking for the past congress actions and approvals of polices in the area of health care. With partial change there would be more people included in the health care scheme but still not all.
Work Cited
American College of Emergency Physicians. (2011). Ethics of health care reform: Issues in emergency- medicine- An information paper. Retrieved from www.acep.org/Content.aspx?id=80871
Damico, Anthony, Garfield, Rachel. (2016). The Covarage Gap Uninsured Poor Adults in States that Do Not Expand Medicaid – An Update. Retrieved from: http://kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief/the-coverage-gap-uninsured-poor-adults-in- states-that-do-not-expand-medicaid-an-update/
Medicaid.gov.(N.d.). Affordable Care Act. Retrieved from https://www.medicaid.gov/affordablecareact/affordable-care-act.html
Thrope, Hayatt Jane. (2010). Comparative Effectiveness Research and health Reform: Implication for Public Health Policy and Practice. U.S. National Library of medicine. Retrieved http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2966676/
