Essays on Affordable Care Act

I have learned that in the free market medicine, the price of healthcare goods and services is determined freely by the agreement between the patient and the medical providers and that there is no government intervention to control demand and supply of the healthcare goods and services. In particular, this has helped improve the efficiency in providing the healthcare services by reducing cases of mismanagement as observed in the government controlled healthcare services. Additionally, the free market medicine has helped reduce the waiting time, and therefore patients can see the medicine providers more frequently (Stossel, 2013). Currently, the free ...

Medicare

What are the purposes of Medicare regulations other than the one mentioned above? Medicare was signed into law in 1965 with the intention of providing better healthcare to the citizen through medical insurance. It provides protection to its recipients, and it is a government program intended to provide insurance to the aged and people living with certain disabilities (Moon, 2006). It is mandated by the law to provide hospital insurance, medical insurance and cover drug prescription for its recipients. How will the federal government enforce compliance in the Medicare Advantage program? Which two other Medicare regulations do you think ...

The affordable Care Act 2015 formerly christened as Obamacare is one of the major reforms in the health sector. Obamacare seeks to expand and improve health care access to a majority of Americans by curbing costs of healthcare through taxes and regulation. The primary focus of this policy was to provide more Americans with access to health insurance, improved quality of health insurance and health care, reduce healthcare expenditure in the country and more importantly regulate the insurance industry. However, the policy has received support and opposition in equal measure. Proponents of the policy call it a monumental legislation ...

Currently, the affordable Care Act is on the verge of being “repeal and replace”, this is with the consistency of turn of events after the inauguration of the Donald John Trump as the new presidents of the United State (Landman). However, the law is still intact and in force (ObamaCare Facts). It is worth to note, when president Trump assumed office he issued an executive order minimizing expenditure, regulations, and activities which are considered to be economic burden associated with the Act (National Conference of State Legislatures). This order gives States governments more power to initiate open free health ...

Public opinion can best be defined as not only the desires and wants but also the way the majority of people often think. In other words, public opinion is the overall opinion people of a certain society or a state about a certain subject of interest. Human beings tend to be very opinionated about certain things as everyone feels it is only right that they are entitled to their own personal opinions whatsoever the issue or matter. This essay focuses on public opinion in healthcare particularly regarding the Affordable Care Act. The Affordable Care Act as it is commonly ...

Abstract

This brief essay studied the uninsured and the health care disparities they face. Essential Affordable Care Act provisions and their effects were studied. Critical factors affecting the health care of the uninsured were identified; these included race, ethnicity, income, socioeconomic status, culture, language and income. Several research studies concluded that while access to health care has improved, the quality of this care has not improved for the uninsured. Although the number of uninsured has been reduced dramatically since 2010, insurance costs continue to increase significantly. Failure of states to expand Medicaid benefits has limited uninsured patients’ health care options. ...

Interest Group: Families USA

Interest Group: Families USA

Question 2: Three pieces of Information that gives a picture of what families believe

The group believes in giving the poor affordable access to healthcare. The website is filled with messages regarding the new President’s effort to repeal and replace Obama Care. It denounces such action not for political stance but for the impacts it will have on the lower and middle income American. Fighting for the rights of the underprivileged healthcare consumers: There are some articles that are condemning the new administration’s effort to lower healthcare expenditures but at the same time lower the tax rate for the corporations. It interprets this as removing from the ...

Current Health Policy Debate regarding the Affordable Care Act

Introduction The health policy debate regarding ObamaCare focuses on the interest of average U.S citizens. The Affordable Care Act offers protection and benefits to all United States’ citizens regardless of their economic status and social lifestyle. The ACA seeks to reduce the insurance premiums to ensure the majority of average American families are covered. The law seeks to ensure 30 million of 44 million Americans without insurance get access to health coverage (ObamaCare, 2015). The government through the health insurance marketplaces, employers and Medicaid would ensure more Americans obtains health insurance coverage. The health law focuses on low-income Americans ...

On March 23, 2010, Congress endorsed The Affordable Care Act [ACA], otherwise dubbed The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act [PPACA], into legislation as a measure to reform the nation’s healthcare system (Hill 445). The new health care statute encompassed improvements to “appropriate, reasonable, or essential” health benefits and measures to regulate health costs through rules and regulations for the health care industry and insurance companies (Hill 445-446). The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, which includes Fiscal Responsibility Acts and Student Aid, also went into the amendment of the PPACA. Hence, the “ObamaCare” is the ...

Insurance for Arab women migrants v their counterparts in their homelands

In the United States, Arab migrant women are part of an immigrant population from the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) regions. Health insurance coverage for this group depends on their legal and income statuses. In essence, several thousand have gained coverage under the now threatened Affordable Care Act, with others covered under Medicare, Medicaid, or alternative sources of private insurance. This group majorly comprises of current U.S citizens of Arab origin (Amer & Awad, 2015). However, non-citizen Arab women migrants fall under the 21 percent uninsured residents. These individuals include both undocumented and legally present Arab immigrants. In essence, ...

Introduction

Traditionally, the primary role of health care organizations has been the delivery of health care services to the public. However, over the last few decades several changes have occurred in the medical field that requires health care organization to develop new ways of enhancing the quality of service delivery. For example, the current generation is more aware of health issues than it has been the case in earlier decades. At the same time, there are more chronic and life-threatening diseases and conditions affecting populations across the nation and the world in general than it was the case in history ( ...

Abstract

The United States is currently embroiled in a debate on how healthcare should be structured. The Republicans have sworn to repeal the Affordable Care Act. On the other hand, more than 33 million people are not able to afford basic healthcare services, do not have medical covers, and most of them do not have proper employment (Atun, De Andrade, Almeida, Cotlear, Dmytraczenko, Frenz, & De Paula, 2015). Additionally, most middle-income earners cannot afford proper health insurance or afford to pay health care costs off their pockets. Essentially, this is best demonstrated by the high number of bankruptcies filed due to ...

President Obama ushered in his tenure of leadership with significant reforms in the healthcare industry. He was determined to reshape and refine the medical sector in the United States. The former commander in chief influenced healthcare regulations and proposed essential medical innovations such as Medicaid and Obamacare. He thus serves as the embodiment of a successful leader in the healthcare industry and the United States. This essay assesses the leadership values, characteristics, and styles of President Obama with regards to the DISC profile. What leadership insights has he left for those who are willing to take up his mantle ...

Healthcare can best be defined as the maintaining as well as the improving of one’s health through various aspects such as treatment, vaccination and so on. The deliverance of health care is mostly done by professionals of health in all fields. The access to health care services has been observed to vary across various countries, regions, ethnicities, social groups in society as well as individuals (Healthy People 2011). However, the main factors influencing access to health services have been reported to be the social as well as economic conditions of a particular place. The access to quality healthcare ...

Questions and Answers

Questions and Answers

Question 1

Answer The two nations selected in the study include the United States and China. In the two countries, the government provides funds for health services. Therefore, in the budget for each of the nations selected, there is an allocation of funds onto the health financing initiative. In the United States, the execution of such funding comes through the programs like Medicare or Medicaid (Reeves, 2015). In addition, the insurance plans exist. In China, there is governmental funding and insurance policies alone. In both nations, the financing health insurance has various impacts on the economy. For example, ...

Abstract

Numerous attempts to reform health care in the United States on the federal level have been made since the 1930s, but differences between each state represent a significant barrier to every previous federal health care reform. In 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law, but the current implementation and effects of the law are not the same across different states. The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast the effects of the health care reform in California and Florida, as well as the positions of the two states. It was found that the insurance ...

Introduction

The term managed care refers to various healthcare insurance plans used in the United States, which are aimed at moderating the cost of providing care to the citizens. Essentially, the techniques used are intended to enhance the quality of patient care provided in the medical facilities. The approaches also include the systems of financing the enrolled organizations under the managed healthcare concept and techniques. In this essay, three types of managed care plans will be discussed. Furthermore, their impact on the way services are delivered at Healing Hands Hospital will be included. The paper will identify the changes that ...

While many provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act have been considered necessary for the safety and health of all uninsured Americans over Obama’s presidency, one that may often be overlooked but is considered to be crucial is located in Subtitle B: Immediate Action to Make Coverage Affordable and More Available. Within Subtitle B, Section 1101 ensures immediate access to insurance for Americans who have a preexisting condition, which has been considered anything from a previous cancerous condition, to having flat feet . When initially enacted, the provision allowed for a temporary insurance program to be put ...

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) affects employment-based insurance in various ways as it influences employer decisions about health benefits. Although companies will continue to uphold the ACA Act, many employees will end up paying most of the insurance costs since companies will make changes that suit them. For instance, many employers claim to have made changes in 2015 in anticipation of the high-cost plan tax. In this regard, companies will increase deductibles, do away with covered services, eliminate tax-preferred savings accounts such as Health Savings Accounts, cancel all higher-cost health insurance options, and use cheap provider networks (Nordal, 2012). ...

1. GOP lawmakers' dilemma: Obamacare enrolees in their district This article that appeared on CNN Money by Sonam Vashi on January 10th, 2017 shows the irony of the Democrats framing an Act which the Republicans want to repeal. The dilemma occurs when the major beneficiaries of the Affordable Care Act are in Republican dominated areas. Vashi uses statistics, individual reasoning and the opinion of others to put up this article. The author presents a balanced view of the situation by taking many scenarios into consideration. A proper perspective is given for better understanding. The reader can understand the dilemma ...

Introduction

The expansion of Medicaid is considered a key component of Obamacare (Affordable Care Act) that focused on providing healthcare coverage to millions of uninsured Americans (Buettgens, Holahan, and Recht, 2015). Some of the low-income earners and poor people who do not have health insurance in the U.S. live in Texas. Medicaid is administered or run by individual states and the federal government. Individuals who enroll for Medicaid benefit by not paying premiums for healthcare coverage. The state hospitals are using about $5.5 billion annually for treating uninsured people. The uncompensated healthcare costs are, therefore, covered by insurance premiums and ...

Introduction

Data from the US Census Bureau shows that in 2014, some 33 million people (10% of the population) in the United States did not have health insurance (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development -OECD, 2015). While all governments should offer universal healthcare to their people, some poor countries have plenty of socio-economic complexities to handle it, and for now developed countries like the United States are the ones highly capable of offering free healthcare to all their citizenry. The United States has one of the most unstable healthcare systems in terms of its affordability and access to all citizens ...

Policy Analysis: Issue of Health Disparities in Alaska Natives and American Indians

Health disparities among Alaska Natives and American Indians (AI/ANs) have been reported since the initial contact that occurred nearly 500 years in the past. Moreover, the disparities are common in every age and across a wide spectrum of various disease categories (Sarche & Spicer, 2008). Accordingly, AI/ANs endure persistent health disparities that include health status decline, barriers to essential health services, and high uninsured rates. The group also experiences a lower status of health in comparison to other Americans (Frizzell, 2016). The disproportionate burden of disease and reduced life expectancy in AI/ANs can be attributed to cultural differences, discrimination in ...

According to current population reports, 28.5 million of the United States population remained uninsured. Of the 34 member states of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the United States, Poland, ad Greece are the only countries without a universal healthcare system. In many of the cases, advocates for the right to health care often argue that no individual in the developed countries like the United States ought to go without a health insurance. In their arguments, they admit that a right to health care would halt medical bankruptcies, enhance public health, and reduce the general costs of ...

Perhaps the most sterling example of an intervention or tactic that has changed greatly in light of the passage and implementation of the Affordable Care Act is the interaction that many people have with health insurance, the poor in particular. In the past, Medicaid was about all there was in terms of health insurance for the poor. The subsidies and support system in place for those that struggle but yet are not poor enough to qualify for Medicare were not yet in place. With that in mind, the author of this report witnessed more than once where people would ...

There are many controversial subjects that we hear about almost every day. For this post, I chose videos that cover two of these topics: the Affordable Care Act and the Greenhouse Effect. Each video provided a surprising amount of information about each topic that I did not know in a way that’s easy to understand. In the first video, ABC Action News described the new health insurance requirements under the Affordable Care Act and its impact on the population as a whole. Under this law, everyone in the United States is required to have health insurance; however, not ...

The Affordable Care Act— also sometimes known as “Obamacare”— is one of the most important defining features of the Obama administration, and one of the first things that has been done by the Trump administration is an attempted dismantling of the programs that Obama so carefully designed to protect the American people’s right to healthcare (Kodjak, 2017). From a policy perspective, dismantling Obamacare will be a long and arduous process for President-elect Trump; it is likely to be a difficult process, made worse by the extensive cost associated with re-working the insurance system yet again (Pear, 2017). Nearly ...

Q. 1 The health care reform brought by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has had a fundamental influence on the social, political, and economic environment of the U.S. According to Rosenbaum (2011), ACA has raised Medicaid enrollment by 15 million beneficiaries and reduced the number of uninsured by 31 million Americans. However, economically, it has led to increased healthcare costs for small business employers and politically, it has caused political differences between Republicans and Democrats, with the former vowing to repeal it. Q. 2 According to Norris (2016), the state of Florida is one of the active resisters of ...

Introduction

President Obama enacted the Affordable Care Act as a United States Federal statute in 2010. Together with the amendment to the reconciliation bill, it promised to expand health insurance to all citizens at a reasonable cost. PPACA defines the health care as neither the right nor privilege of people but it states that citizens, however, do have a right to “affordable” healthcare, which it tries to achieve through a partnership between the market and the government. The ACA is a result of an evolution of government-funded plans such as Medicare and Medicaid as well as statutes such as HIPAA, ...

Introduction

Accessibility and user friendliness are integral for websites since one of their primary objectives is to expand their usefulness to many individuals. Web accessibility considers the needs of both the able-bodied and disabled persons with regards to their interaction, navigation, understanding, and perception of the web. This essay illustrates the user-friendliness and accessibility of the U.S. Congressional website, Congress.gov.

The Search for the Website and Affordable Care Act

My search commenced by typing in the words U.S. Congressional Website on the Google Search Tab. From the list provided, I clicked on the first option of Congress.Gov. On the Search Tab, I typed the terms Affordable Care Act and ...

Introduction

Health policy can be defined as a plan or decision combined with actions to achieve specific healthcare goals by implementing key strategies within the society (WHO, 2016). As per the World Health Organization (WHO), an explicit health policy is known to be associated with several success factors such as development of a vision for the future and establishment of key targets for the short and long-term. Health policies enable organizations, institutes, societies, and groups to define outline, propose new goals, and inculcate different roles across various healthcare sectors (Záliš, et al. 2016). Healthcare policies are known to unite ...

Health Care is a Right, not a Privilege

I believe health care is a right and not a privilege. Medical care is an essential component in individual’s well-being. Public policies create a significant difference in the healthcare industry by creating equity and promoting the right to care (Leppo, Ollila, Peña, Wismar, and Cook, 2013). The federal government is keen to implement policies that enforce the provision of healthcare services to all citizens. For instance, the establishment and implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) aim at improving the access of medical services. Under the ACA, the citizens have an obligation of paying health insurance premiums. ...

In 2010, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to make changes in the health care system. Section 5204 has established to ensure public health workforce loan program. The law has ensured that the public health professional would receive up to $35,000 repayment loan for pursuing health degree. It was made to eliminate the shortage of health professionals in federal, local, and public health agencies. The section has generated positive results for the nursing profession and makes the supply of health professionals certain. It has managed the shortage of health professionals and increases their ...

The core values St. Leo’s represents is applicable to the debate surrounding the ACA. St. Leo represents and firmly believes in community and integrity. The ACA is reportedly designed to provide for the welfare of the community, meaning Americans at large. The issue surrounding the ACA is that many say the provisions lack integrity due to various different reasons. Regardless of these issues, integrity is often defined as doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. World leaders and policy makers have a responsibility to maintain integrity to benefit the communities in which they live, whether ...

The patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was a legislation that was enacted by president barrack Obama on March 2010.According to Pulcini (2013), the health bill was established by the US government so as improve the access to affordable and quality healthcare in the United States. The bill has been critical in reducing the government’s expenditure in the health sector through the development of public-private participation. Also, the expansion of the Medicaid mandate has been of great significance in enhancing the access to quality care services.

Advantages

A study by Smith (2014) portends that the Affordable Act has been ...

Introduction

The healthcare system in Australia is termed as one of the most successful in the world when it comes to the delivery of good healthcare. Additionally, the health outcomes, as well as the control of costs by the system, are remarkably effective as stated by Hall (2015). Such achievements have however been achieved through the interaction of the public and private financial backing, public and private provision of services, and the sharing of key duties between the federal as well as the state governments (Hall, 2015). In the US, no single system of health insurance covers the nation. Health ...

Health policy entails the goals and decisions made so as to achieve the various health care objectives in the society. It just stipulates the future vision and establishes the expected roles of the people concerned in the health matters in the society. Health care in America has come a long way. In the recent past, health care was quite an expensive entity, but leaders have put in place measures to ensure that proper health services are accessible to every citizen. For instance, there is the Affordable care Act or else known as Obamacare, which was enacted into law by ...

How the Obamacare affects demand health insurance

Before the introduction of the Obamacare, demand for health insurance was not based on the demand and supply law but rather on the need for one to be protected in emergency cases. After the introduction of the Affordable Care ACT, the demand for health still is based on the want to be protected in emergencies, but the costs applied affects the demand for the health insurance (Cutler, 2015). The cost assistance introduced by the Affordable Care ACT insinuates that more people can get coverage of the health insurance. The increase of out-of-cost and demand has resulted in problems in ...

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Long-term care is usually required for those people, who have chronic illness and/or disabilities, thereby requiring personal care assistance for long period of time. This long-term care not only includes health-care services but also requires assistance in personal care and activities such as dressing, eating, bathing, walking, and transferring (Housing Bureau for Seniors, 2015). This paper deals with the information about the care required by older people and integration of long-term care services in a cost-effective and attainable manner.

Percentage of older people requiring long-term care

Older people require not only formal care at home but also require long-term care either at home ...

The healthcare controversies that could be expected to develop in the future include emergence of ethical issues, the large percentage of population remaining uninsured, as well as rights of the patients as healthcare consumers. For instance, in the emergence of ethical issues, it was apparent that the following need to be addressed: hacking of medical devices, defending of people’s privacy, scanning of medical information at home, healthy people allegedly switching to technology, biological differences, discoveries on possibilities of prolonging life, bioterrorism due to nanotechnology, technological developments versus evidence based medicine, transhumanism and singularitarianism, as sexuality becoming technological . From ...

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was incorporated in the year 2010 in order to transform the healthcare services in such manner that it enhances the healthcare outcomes in the country. It is also focused on reducing the cost of healthcare while ensuring that the healthcare services are made available by means of effective availability and distribution. The quality of healthcare system has been objectified to be increased under the prevalence of ACA, whereas the rate of uninsured citizens is also emphasized so that the effective distribution of the healthcare services can be implied (Gable, 2011). The population in the ...

Introduction

This paper will examine Affordable Care Act (ACA), which aims at improving healthcare accessibility. The ACA is a federal policy, which solves the issues of health provision by subsidizing health insurance. Consequently, it expands insurance coverage and lowers the costs of healthcare (Rosenbaum, 2011). The policy directs insurance firms to offer standard minimum charges to applicants despite their pre-existing conditions.

Social issue tackled by the ACA

Problem to be solved The ACA addresses the issues of healthcare provision by lowering the costs and improving access to medical services. Low-income earners have access to better healthcare which enhances the quality of life. Also, the policy reduces ...

“Sorry. We Don’t Take Obamacare.” The growing pains of the Heath Care Act are frustrating patients. What does the church think about it? Healthcare reform was one of the top priorities of the Obama presidential campaign of 2008. His particular attention to social needs in the sphere literally led him to the White House. However, many, if not the majority, are disappointed with the program and its requirements. People do not get enough of the benefits or are not subjected to them at all. Despite all criticism that Obamacare and Medicaid had come up with, the programs are ...

Introduction

Managed care refers to the approaches and methods designed to reduce the cost of healthcare and leverage financial disbursements in order to improve the quality of healthcare to patients. This refers to a series of services offered by private insurance companies that provide health insurance to patients in the form of fee-for-service and value-based health care system for members of insurance schemes. There are group and individual insurance packages that are offered to members who make regular contributions for healthcare services as and when they are needed. Health insurance has always existed in history. However, the Health Maintenance Organization ...

Medicare and Medicaid

The current paper aims to discuss the prevalence of Medicare and Medicaid and enlighten the influence of Affordable Care Act (ACA) in the hospital system of the United States. Medicare offers the healthcare insurance to the individuals who are aged 65 years or more and have provided their services to country. Medicare also provides financial assistance to the young individuals with disabilities or chronic diseases. The program was originally initiated in accordance with the legislation of Medical Care Act in the year 1956 in order to provide financial assistance in healthcare services to the military personnel (Chan et al., ...

Introduction

The prevalence of Affordable Care Act (ACA) has reduced the healthcare cost and has extended the eligibility of Medicaid for 32 million Americans. The effect of Medicaid on the healthcare of elderly remains hindered due to the lack of access to care, whereas its effect on the healthcare outcomes have remained optimum and children (Fairman et al., 2011). The combined objective of Medicaid in accordance with the Affordable Care Act incorporates the provision of healthcare services to the low-income parents, children, pregnant women and disabled individuals and hence, the healthcare services for the nondisabled adults are not addressed by ...

Introduction

Obama Care aims at extending health care services to all the U.S. citizens, but it impacts the economy positively and negatively. The Affordable Care Act requires that firms should compensate the medical insurance cover of their full-time employees. The specific aspects of the economy that are impacted by this provision include employment, supply, and demand, trickledown economics, GDP, fiscal policy, wage and health care inflation. While Obama care forces firms to hire employees on part time, it results in high demand for medical professionals. As large companies and high-income earners pay their insurance premiums, the trickledown economics becomes real. ...

Question 1

Although the affordable care act has been notably successful in its objective to increase the number of insured Americans, the act has increased the government’s role the country’s healthcare system. The now overly centralized healthcare system, while allowing for faster decision making, has significantly reduced the role of health consumers and other key players in the sector. Through the act, the federal government has at times appeared to have too much control in how healthcare financing is designed as well as its delivery to consumers.

Question 2

While the affordable care act has significant increased the proportion of healthcare ...

The paper deals with comparing and contrasting health care reform data for the two states of Minnesota and Arkansas.

Lack of Health Insurance According to the last data recorded, Minnesota had 7 percent of its total population without any private health insurance, neither their employer nor the government has it for them (State Public Health Statistics, 2016). This percentage has decreased only by 0.9% in last one decade. For Arkansas, it is the state that ranks 35 when it comes to having health insurance for the state’s population. 13.9% Arkansas population lacks health insurance, privately, through the government or the employer (State Public Health Statistics, 2016). Lacking health insurance privately put people in having difficulties accessing the ...

Influence of Cost on the U.S Healthcare System

Influence of Cost on the U.S Healthcare System

Introduction

In the United States, the health care system is incorporated by private sector, public sector and non-profit organizations. It has been inferred that the United States has incorporated the highest spending on healthcare per capita with the 17.2 percent of its GDP in the year 2011, which is also the highest in the world. It eventually indicates the inclination of the United States towards enhancing the wellbeing of its citizens by means of providing the effective means of healthcare services (Grol et al., 2013). The current paper enlightens the effect on ...

The full implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) happened in 2014, introducing health insurance reforms and fresh health coverage options in Pennsylvania, California and other regions in the United States. Before the Affordable Care Act, under a waiver, California made several initiatives to expand the state’s Medicaid program – Medi-Cal – and made plans to restructure the health care delivery system within its safety net. Within the first two years after the ACA went into full effect, Medi-Cal, together with Covered California, which is the state’s health insurance Marketplace, facilitated the health coverage of millions of California residents. ...

In the USA the federal government has three branches of power: Executive – The President, Legislative- the Senate and Judicial – The Supreme Court. Members of Executive and Legislative branches are elected by people, while “members of the Judicial Branch are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate” (the Whitehouse). The Supreme Court is a real power in the USA and it is very important in the public policy arena. According to the Article 3 of the USA Constitution, “the judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the ...

[Institution’s Name] The United States has a high number of uninsured people. When these people become gravely ill, it puts a burden on the health care system because they must take care of them, but have no way to pay for it. So Obama and the Democrats, with little to no input from Republicans, pushed through Congress the Affordable Care Act, more popularly known as Obamacare. Obamacare mandated that everyone be insured or pay a fine that was to be imposed through the IRS. The initiatives of the ACA were to make healthcare more accessible to the public ...

Informal presentation

Hello colleagues. I am privileged to have worked with most of you in various forums. The healthcare setting is our second home and it is the point where we not only give back to the community but also work to fulfill the calling that is care giving. We are part of the healthcare system that is changing fast and moving closer and closer to meeting the needs of a community whose needs are increasing in equal measure with time. The adoption of the Affordable Care Act 2010 is one of the milestones that significantly changed the role and scope ...

The Affordable Care Act was a landmark law passed by President Obama. It was designed as a means to increase access to healthcare for millions of Americans. Throughout the country, nurses are starting to feel the effects of this law. As an Emergency Department (ED) nurse, I have first-hand seen changes in the course of my shifts because of the act. Because the law increased the number of people with insurance, they are now seeking medical care. However, most of them are coming into the ED now for treatment because of convenience or not being able to find another ...

Health insurance is a prepayment plan that provides cash or service indemnities in times of illness. Not everyone in U.S has equal access to health care services and insurance in the United States. Low health access, can increase the rate of death from preventable diseases and also leads to overall poor health outcomes. According to the latest population survey, there were 49.9 million uninsured people in the U.S. they account for ~16% of the country’s population. The rate of people who were uninsured, are higher among the Hispanics, followed by African American. A better understanding of the reason ...

People above 65 years of age and older are eligible to avail Medicare health insurance. It is provided by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. One can also enroll for Medicare through the social security administration and railroad retirement board. Medicare cards can be issued to the person before 3 months of reaching 65 years of age. For people aged 65 and above, there is no need to pay a monthly premium for Part A benefits of Medicare. This is because, these people or their spouse had paid FICA (Federal Insurance Contributions Act) taxes, while they were working. ...

Background to Interview and Interviewee

One of the most threatening challenges the healthcare industry faces today is that of providing treatment to terminal diseases. When the disease or the health condition is further associated with a sense of taboo, the provision of healthcare services and addressing the health issue becomes furthermore difficult . HIV/AIDS is one such healthcare evil which is spreading rapidly and alarmingly throughout the global society as more and more people are being tested positive for the condition. This presentation focuses on the healthcare service providers who are engaged in the field of providing treatment to patients suffering from HIV/AIDS. The objective ...

Introduction

Ever since the Affordable Care Act, more popularly known as Obamacare was signed into law in 2010, there has been a major overhaul in the health services that the community provides. One of the aspects that was changed was in terms of emergency medical services, commonly abbreviated to EMS. Since EMS is commonly handled by the fire department in various communities as well, they too are affected in this service. In fact, the changes made to the EMS system have a major impact regarding the relationship between hospitals and fire departments, and may prompt the latter in changing its ...

When it comes to the issue of healthcare in the community, there are always gaps that must always be addressed in order to be able to combat the issues and barriers that affect the community. This annotated bibliography will look at the various sources that have been able to address the issue of needs and assets assessment. Citation: Arellano, N., Davis, S., Tyer-Viola, L., Sullivan, M. M.,Mihovan, M. E., Costa, K.&Palazuelos, D. (2015). Towards la clinica de mis sue? os: Findings from a needs and assets assessment among rural nurses in Chiapas, Mexico. Journal of Nursing Education and ...