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¶ … Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
The health of a nation's population is the most important sector in the building of the nation's economy (Kovne, Knickman & Jonas, 2011). A sick nation cannot effectively produce anything substantial to keep it running. Thus, it is in this view that each government seeks to provide better quality and affordable health services. In so doing, the governments set up rules and laws that act to regulate the health sector.
The acts that the government has drafted and implemented have various initiatives that drive them. These initiatives include reducing costs and so as to make access to health affordable and protecting the consumers (Parks, 2012). In the previous times, the very industrious Americans had to live with having to pay the price for policies that let the insurance service companies exploit them. The act holds insurers accountable by allowing new tools for cracking down the exploitative health insurance premiums increases, and ensuring that at least eighty percent of the premium money is spent on provision of quality health care and not administration costs as profits, salaries and marketing costs.
The law also eliminated the most horrible form of abuse...
The bill protects the consumers via policies, for example, prohibiting insurers from denying children with pre-existing conditions coverage and making lifetime dollar limits on coverage illegal. The act also helps to facilitate for simplification of health cost systems to much cheap and affordable costs (Parks, 2012).
Another initiative that has been implemented is that on improving the quality and efficiency of the healthcare service providers. The patient protection and affordable care act (PPACA) will advance the efficiency and quality of these services for everyone. Payments for services offered will be made on view of the quality provided. New patient care models will be initiated and passed to all consumers up to those in rural.
The other component of the act entails prevention of chronic diseases and improving public health. For this to be achieved, the nation's health system will set up initiatives to provide the momentum and the infrastructure. The new interagency prevention council will work in hand with the Prevention and Public Health Investment Fund so as to meet the goal on preventing chronic disease occurrence (Kovne et al., 2011). The barriers that existed in the past to access medical precautionary services will be removed. The disease prevention systems will be modernized and campaigns for educating and creating awareness on these initiatives will be conducted.
Moreover, the act also seeks to improve on the healthcare workforce (Parks, 2012). The act will promote and…
References
Kovner, A.R., Knickman, J., & Jonas, S. (2011). Jonas & Kovner's health care delivery in the United States. New York: Springer Pub.
Parks, D. (2012). Health care reform simplified: What professionals in medicine, government, insurance, and. S.l.: Apress.
Wolper, L.F. (2004). Health care administration: Planning, implementing, and managing organized delivery systems. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
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