Essays on Obamacare

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The United States is still reeling in the aftermath of a Donald Trump presidency and the surprises it may bring with it. In Paul Krugman’s article, Donald Trump’s Medical Delusions, it is clear that there are inadequacies of the Trump attacks of Obamacare. “Repeal and replace” turns out to have been a political slogan because the changes proposed by the Conservatives/ Republicans may never see the light of day. Repealing Obamacare was a campaign strategy that may have won Donald Trump the presidency but its viability leads to a lot of questions raised as to whether it ...

Federalism in the United States has evolved over the past 200 years from an arrangement where state and national government powers and responsibilities were clearly distinct and separate, to one in which the line of distinction between the two has blurred. When the framers drafted the Constitution, they provided separate powers to the federal government in Article One. A few of these clauses extended the power of the national government in order to prevent the hazards faced by the Articles of Confederation. In order to ensure that limitations still existed on the federal government, the Tenth Amendment was included. ...

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 ...

Health Care

Under conventional repayment protection, the cash takes after the patient. Patients select human services suppliers and visit them as they pick. Suppliers at that point charge the private guarantor or open payer and are repaid on a charge for-administration or per case premise. This is known as Managed Care. The key issues associated with Managed Care are: I) Cost Savings II) Provider Reimbursement and III) Quality of Care . Cost Savings: Savings done by Managed Care are either not genuine, or are unsustainable. In a late review of shoppers, 60% said that managed care had either not had any kind ...

Introduction

German sociologist Max Weber defined a charismatic leader as someone that espouses extraordinary characteristics and whose vision inspires several others (Avolio & Yammarino, 2002, p. 168). Charismatic leaders are capable of gathering masses in their support and leading major political, religious or social movement. But, such large following can be positive or negative for their opposition and some of them might even take criminal routes to achieve their objectives. In the present world, Barak Obama is a charismatic leader who is seen as a positive charismatic leader. Obama led a major political movement and brought the majority of the nation ...

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 ...

“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

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. ...

[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 ...

One of the foundations of every just society is the protection of every person’s right to healthcare. This statement underscores the importance of the discourse on whether working citizens ought to pay for healthcare. The debate has been in the limelight since the beginning of the 20th century. Successive governments in the United States have over the years attempted to institute a universal healthcare system for the United States citizenry, but repeatedly the proposals for a free healthcare system in the country has been fought and defeated. In light of this information, this paper seeks to answer the ...

Position Paper

Introduction The United States’ health care system has for a long time been operated and owned by the private sector. In fact, about fifty-eight percent of the community hospitals are accredited to the non-governmental organizations. An average of about 60-65 percent is accounted for from programs such as the Veterans Health Administration, Medicare, Children’s Health Insurance Program and Medicare. This has ensured a smooth functioning of the healthcare system especially when it is compared to the systems of different countries. According to the Migration Health Annual Report (2004), from the Institute of Medicine, it is evident that despite ...

Barack Obama has become a paradoxical figure of the United States. He is one of the most popular “lame-duck” presidents in history. He handily won his election and reelection, and has reinforced the democratic base. He has given African Americans a voice and has proven that African Americans can be powerful and effective leaders despite a congress that will openly work against them. From out of the woodwork, we now have a Republican presidential candidate who is seemingly racist, who is commended by his supporters for speaking “the truth” regarding black, Hispanic and Muslim people and citizens. Obama provided ...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) became a federal statute in March of 2010 (H. R. 3590, 2010). The PPACA required that group health plans and health insurance issuers cover all applicants for health insurance without regard to pre-existing conditions or sex of the applicant. Dependent insurance is required to cover uninsured children up to the age of 26. The PPACA further required that group health plans and health insurance issuers provide a stipulated minimum standard benefit at the same rates for everyone. Subsidies were available for eligible individuals, small business, and families. Government subsidies were made ...

          The health care delivery system in the United States is unique when compared with delivery structures in other developed countries. In most developed nations, the government manages the national health insurance programs. These programs are financed through taxes collected within the country. Approximately all the citizens of such nations are entitled to insurance services paid by the government (PAHO, 2014). In America, such an insurance policy does not exist. There is a slight difference in the health care structure of various states in the country. This paper is set to analyze the health care structure, compare, as well as ...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) usually referred to Affordable Care Act (ACA) and nicknamed Obamacare is a U.S federal bill that was signed into law in March 2010 by President Barrack Obama, it is the latest healthcare transformation law that seeks to enhance quality and accessibility of healthcare services to all Americans (Ornstein, 2015). The PPACA empowers consumers to be in control of their own healthcare by giving them the flexibility of making well-versed choices concerning their health; this is provided for in the ACA under the Patient’s Bill of Rights (Levy, 2010).

Stakeholders in evolution of Affordable Care Act

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On 23rd March 2010, the president of the united states Barack Hussein Obama signed into law the Patient and protection affordable care act. This is one of the most important laws signed by President Obama in his entire time as head of state. For this reason, the law went on to get recognized as the Obama care act. Most of the provisions catered for in this law came into force in the year 2014. Many preliminary deliberations and preparations would ensure the law remains efficient and beneficial. This particular law aims to achieve some objectives. The first mandate is ...

In present economic scenario many people are underemployed even though the unemployment rate is low i.e. workers are less unemployed but still the underemployment rate is high. This underemployment is a social problem. It affects the job growth, poverty levels, business growth and career growth. Unemployment rate is the fraction of the labor force that is out of work and looking for a job or expecting a recall from a layoff. But underemployment is the measure of employment and labor utilization in the economy i.e. the way the labor force is utilized in terms of skill , expertise and availability ...

Introduction

Political ideology is a dominant dogma that helps to shape the party activities and what the people that support it believe in. The dogma remains the main philosophy that shapes the party’s slogan and thoughts in everything they promise people to trust them with power (Jillson 8). On the other hand, political sociology is the promise of the party to respond to social problems that affect the people and render solutions as guided by the political ideologies. Democratic Party has been a very popular party in the United States of America alongside the Republican formed in 1928, making ...

Affiliated Institution

Appendix: Introduction Objective P. 3 Program Details & Classification P. 3-4 Obstacles Facing Stakeholders. Citizens. P. 4-10 Immigrants. P. 10 Employers & Workforce. P. 10-12 Options for Individuals without Affordable Coverage. P. 12-13 Conclusion. P.13 References. P. 14 Introduction The purpose of this report is to analyze the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that was passed by the Congress in March 2010. In this document, we are going to discuss the program’s objective, how it affects the different stakeholders within the American Society, what are the pros and cons and what are the barriers for its implementation (or consequences); we will ...

The proponents of the Affordable Care Act allege that it will transform the American health care system, but I do not think so. In her article, “Obamacare’s problems get worse,” Jennifer Rubin demonstrates why the Act will not transform the country's health care system by examining its problems. According to her, the Affordable Care Act is expensive, not accessible, and an unequal health care coverage. She maintains that the critics of the Act understand that it did not do anything to reduce the healthcare insurance prices. She also claims that the Act is promoting inequality through expanding a ...

The advert ‘The Truth About Obamacare’ by Molyneux serves to investigate and expose the glaring truths and falsehoods that dominate the discussion of the Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act Molyneux beings from the basics of the Obamacare, the political promises that were used for campaigns and the different approaches of implementation and the change of heart from one element of the promises to another (Molyneux, 1.26). There are some intriguing realities in this video that provide a reflection of the passion with which the Obamacare was expected to change the healthcare system to generate one that is sustainable ...

The Patient and Protection Affordable Care Act dubbed ObamaCare is a health care reform in the US aimed at expanding and improving citizens’ access to healthcare and insurance. The act was signed into law by President on 23rd March 2010, but most provisions came into effect in 2014 (ObamaCare Facts, 2015). The specific objective of the law include things such as ; offering Americans more benefits and protections, allow for purchase of health insurance in a marketplace; expanding Medicare for the aged and disabled; improving Medicaid coverage in more states; increasing employer coverage; making it mandatory for people to have ...

Is it a Right or a Privilege?

Affiliate Institution Is it a Right or a Privilege? Healthcare has been a debate, where many people are trying to argue whether it is a right or a privilege. It is, therefore, important to define the terms for effective understanding. A privilege is something that an individual gets, but he or she has no authority over it. Meaning, he or she cannot demand it, and it is given to the whims of the person who provides it. On the other hand, a right is a constitutional provision that and individual must demand. In fact, there is no negotiation when ...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), which is often christened the Obama Care, provides provisions to Americans for more protections and rights in access to high-quality health care that is cheap to the many millions who are not insured (Rawal 16). By 2014, this law made it a requirement for all American citizens to have health insurance. The ones without minimum essential coverage were required to pay a monthly fee. In 23/03/2010, this act was signed into law. It was later repealed in 2012 to opt-out Medicaid. The law has caused many controversies among proponents and critics ...

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is also known as the ObamaCare is a healthcare reform in the laws of the USA that improves and expands access to curbs spending and care via taxes and regulations. The major focus of this act is to provide more American citizens with easy access to affordable health insurance, regulating the health insurance sector, improving the quality of healthcare as well as health insurance, reducing the amount spent on health care in the United States. There are many different provisions in the Act that are used to address the different aspects of health care ...

Capitalism And Health Care in US

Americans are afraid to contact the emergency medical room (Emergency Room - ER) due to long lines, numerous medical errors and depressive atmosphere (lack of seats, crying, moaning, cursing, blood) prevailing in waiting rooms. That conclusion was reached by experts of a number of non-profit organizations who have studied the attitude of residents of the United States to a modern health care system. It is important to admit that the work of ER has been criticized for at least three decades. However, only in recent years, Americans have come to prefer self-treatment, rather than a visit to the hospital. ...

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) better known as Obamacare is a federal statute that was signed into law in early 2010. Under this Act health institutions as well as physicians would change their clinical, technological and financial practices to improve health outcomes, lower healthcare costs and ensure accessibility to health services. The act is aimed at increasing affordability and quality of health insurance, lowering the uninsured rate and reducing healthcare costs to both the government and individuals through the expansion of private and public insurance. However, it is impossible to support the scheme unless the underlying challenges ...

Some years back, Dubai’s health care system was a major concern among the members of the UAE Federal National Council, or the FNC. One alarming factor about it was that hospitals were suffering from a shortage of hospital beds, which prevented them from offering health services to more people. In addition, there was an apparent lack of medical professional staff who would offer medical services to those in need of medical attention. As a result, citizens flew to other countries in seek of medical attention that they need, especially so because a staggering number of UAE’s population ...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010 was signed into law on March 23, 2010 (HHS.gov., 2015). Referred to as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), it is a health reform effort that has generated a great deal of controversy due to its complexity and wide range of impact. The ACA is mainly concerned with mandating that every person in the country have some form of health insurance. Almost immediately after the legislation was passed, marketplaces for health insurance appeared and businesses hurried to find coverage for employees. There were some very negative changes that resulted such ...

The government has issued a lot of policies in the past years so far. One of the major moves of the Obama administration as far as policymaking is concerned was the issuance of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. What this policy is all about is overhauling the entire American healthcare system so that the focus would be placed on the affordability of healthcare for patients . Prior to its ratification, the focus of the American healthcare system was on the insurance companies and healthcare providers and institutions, at least based on theory as well as the preliminary research ...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) or the Affordable Care Act (ACA) intends to make patient care more accessible and affordable than ever before (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 2016). The act passed in the year March 2010 by President Obama has been a breakthrough in the history of healthcare in the United States. The act aims to cover millions of Americans who were uninsured prior to the implementation of the act. The act is designed to reduce the cost of healthcare and improve the healthcare services provided across the States (Health Insurance Resource Center, 2010). ...

An Assessment

Abstract The climate of healthcare and how it costs in the United States has changed a lot over the past decade. Most of this change came with the passage of the Affordable Care Act, a broad extension of Medicaid and a healthcare marketplace where pricing is more transparent and competitive. This has effectively closed the healthcare gap for a large number of Americans who could not afford to have healthcare insurance before, but the problem has not ended entirely. A highly partisan Congress forced the Act to have caveats and outs at the state level. This has allowed for ...

Introduction

The Healthcare Reform, or the Affordable Care Act is a law which was signed into effect by President Obama in March of 2010. It is a very important mandated law which affects all Americans, regardless of their background or ethnicity and is a requirement for everyone to have medical health insurance ("What Is Healthcare Reform? | Medical Mutual", 2016). Many Americans do not agree with such a mandated provision and it has faced an incredible number of legal battles; since if an individual had decided not to have medical insurance as the law requires, then they would have to pay ...

Introduction

There is the significant gap between the quality of the care that the health system offered in the U.S is capable of delivering to its people and the quality that is currently provided. The gaps are seen to be the results of the health care organizations to incorporate the known and achievable laws into their existing systems. Hence, like any other state, some rules govern the rights of the clients who are covered by the insurance policies in the Minnesota state. The insurance companies should obtain the licenses from the state level because the state level regulate licensing and ...

Brief history of the national healthcare reform

For more than a hundred years, the United States has experienced an epic battle in improving the state of healthcare. At the start of the 1900s, proposals for improving health care were ignited. In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt conducted campaigns advocating for an industry in health insurance. Progressive reformers conducted futile campaigns based on a state-based system that made health insurance compulsory to all citizens in 1915. In the 1920s, group medicine, and voluntary insurance was proposed by the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care and this earmarked the introduction of socialized medicine. The main health care reforms undertaken ...

It May Not Work in Politics

It May Not Work in Politics

Introduction

According to Frederick Kaiser (2003), James Madison envisioned Congress as a body of chosen individuals that the public could submit their ideas to for debate, refinement, and, ultimately, implementation for the public good. But the question still remains unanswered whether or not the Congress truly represents the people, and if courts ensure that justice prevails.

In this modern world where commercialism dominates, people tend to forget professional ethics just to get up the ladder of success. Even a number of politicians defy their oath in the Code of Conduct as stated in the ...

AFFORDABLE CARE ACT

Since the conception of the Affordable Care Act in the year 2010, millions of people in the United States have benefitted through it. It has made health care more affordable and easily accessible for almost every section of the society. Millions of adults who were uninsured prior to the act have benefitted by getting included in the insurance coverage of their parents (till the age of 26 years). 2014 onwards, more number of adults were covered and buying health insurance became easier than before (Center for American Progress, 2016). It will, of course, not be a simple process to ...

Controversy emerged as the city council in Charlotte City, North Carolina, pushed for the approval of an ordinance that aims to provide a wider protections for the LGBT community. In an article entitled Governor Wants Transgender Restroom Rule Blocked which was recently published in ABC News, Governor Pat McCrory expressed his disappointment when the city council voted for the revision of the existing non-discrimination city ordinance. The proposed revision included an order where people were explicitly allowed to use restrooms that correspond with their gender identity. The governor’s argument against the city council’s decision is in it, ...

The effectiveness of employees’ performance depends on the nature of the work, the working environment, and particularly the work scheduling. Based on this approach, different areas and occupations have different working schedules for their employees across the world. For instance, in the USA, the employees have to work for 1,794 hours annually, while the Germans tend to work for 1,433 hours annually. It reflects that there is a great difference in the working schedules and strategies of these regions. However, the effectiveness is compatible in both the cases. Therefore, the paper discusses the pros and cons of ...

Abstract

The paper will examine the health care insurance it the United States, their benefits and costs to the employers and companies that provide health insurance to the workers. With rising concerns and raising the costs of the health insurance the companies have made various schemes on which to work on. Some companies provide health care, some do not. The others provide health care, but have different policies and different premiums related to the health risks among the workers. The best way to get into the issue is to look at the broader picture not just on the health care ...

Article Title: Will nation follow California on healthcare for immigrants here illegally?

The Nation has been set to task for the provision of healthcare to all immigrants who reside in the USA illegally after California decided to provide health care for all irrespective of one's status. The topic supports fundamental human rights of health care to all regardless of immigration status as an essential human right. California, a blue State, has embraced Obamacare but does not support locking out immigrants from the benefits associated with the Obamacare plan.

Relevance to Health Policy.

Health policy on Obamacare has several guidelines regarding the eligibility of persons to qualify for the Marketplace, who include U.S citizens, U.S nationals ...

Civil Liberties and Social Responsibility

In 2002, as reported by The New York Times, the Bush administration approved a presidential bill giving the National Security Agency (NSA) the power to track, listen to, and intercept without a warrant the local and international communications (e.g. emails, phone calls) of a vast number of American citizens. Sooner or later, the scheme expanded to involve a certain extent of 'internal controls' (ACLU, 2015, para 2), yet there was no mention of mandating warrants specified under the foreign intelligence surveillance laws. This surveillance program has penetrated and invaded almost all of the communications technologies and networks that the ...

Health policy combines action, plans and decisions to achieve certain health care improvements. The goals of the health care policies are referred by the World Health organization as a vision for the future, building consensus, informing people and outlining the priorities for the short and medium term. Many historical policies have been implemented in the United States, but still the health care expenses are rising from year to year and had in the last year 2015 reached 17.5% of GDP (United States Census Bureau, n.d.). The paper will examine one of the most important health policies Medicaid. The social ...

Part 1

The evolution of the United States healthcare system has been seen as a blessing in disguise to many Americans who would have otherwise been faced with a myriad of harms as far as their health is concerned (Cohn, 2016). The health reforms in the country that oversaw the drafting into law of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 have had many positive impacts on the state of health of the American citizenry. Before the ACT was assented on by the president, close to 46 million Americans were uninsured and as such were faced with increased premiums on healthcare and ...

As healthcare dynamics change due to availability of advanced technologies, new or strange health conditions, limited qualified healthcare experts and facilities and burgeoning patient numbers, healthcare organizations are under an exceedingly increased pressure to ensure quality of healthcare is not compromised. At the same time, healthcare centers or clinics have to operate under the most sustainable and minimum healthcare costs possible and also reduce patient expenditure on healthcare. Quality assurance in the provision of healthcare has thus become an invaluable aspect of healthcare organizational operation and management in efforts to reduce costs that come with increased patient complaints concerning ...

Introduction

Affordable Care Act was enacted after President Barack Obama signed it on 23rd March 2010. The law introduced wide-ranging health insurance reforms that made consumers in charge of their health care decisions. The objective of The Affordable Care Act is to make health care affordable, accessible and of a better quality. The law applies to all the divisions of society including families, senior citizens, businesses, and taxpayers. Those citizens who were not insured previously or those citizens who were insured but their policy did not provide them proper coverage and security are also included in the parameter of the ...

The Affordable Care Act was a healthcare reform introduced in March 2010, widely known as Obamacare or PPACA (U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 2018). The law has three significant objectives (U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 2018):

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Blogging Survey

Media Summary Part 1

Most of the posts (52%) in this story are supportive of Obamacare. Only 22% of the sampled posts are against the plan. In addition, a sizeable number (24%) gives neutral opinions. It is apparent that even those who are opposing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) do not have concrete arguments but are only opposed to the plan because it is from a government which is run by the Democratic Party. The general message in these posts is that Obamacare is achieving what Republicans thought it would not. The five million people and counting who ...

United States of America President Mr. Barack Obama guided in the formation of a health care bill, officially known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and known as ObamaCare Bill, signed on 23 March, 2010. The bill has received constant speculation and scrutiny. Here is reviewed the article Crucial Rule Is Delayed a Year for Obama’s Health Law posted to the website The New York Times by Jackie Calmes and Robert Pear on 2 July, 2013. This article describes recent development in the implementation of the ObamaCare Act, the delay of a mandate ...

Amortization of prior service cost listed under pension expense is an example of a fixed cost. Fixed costs remain unchanged due to changes in operations and this cost remains unchanged at $ 15 million in both 2012 and 2013 financial years. Amortization involves the paying off of a debt through a fixed schedule in regular installments. Interest costs are another example of fixed costs. This is because financing costs are fixed based on the rate agreed for repayment of debt. Any changes in the operations of an organization will not affect the amount of repayment costs paid out to both short term and ...

Introduction

The Tea Party movement in the United States is greatly influencing the political agenda of the Republican National Party. Although the Tea Party movement did not get its running start until late 2009, the movement has gained great momentum since the midterm elections of 2010. Furthermore, the 2014 midterm election results on all three levels of government (national, statewide and local) reiterates the popular notion that the Tea Party movement fails to be merely a passing phenomenon, but is fundamentally changing the Republican Party (Hook 1).

The Tea Party Movement

The Tea Party is primarily made up of conservative and libertarian politicians, among the ...