The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed into law under the Obama Administration and was responsible for reshaping the health care system in many different ways. From overhauling procedures regarding how health care providers deal with patients and practice quality care to providing more people with coverage, the ACA was meant to make fix many of the problems that Americans had with health care. While some have found the ACA to be highly positive, others have found it to be a complete disaster.Obama noted that the aim of the ACA was to address “long-standing challenges facing the US healthcare system related to access, affordability, and quality of care” (525). Those three points—access, affordability and quality—were the main selling points of the ACA. The legislation was supposed to provide more access to care for people. It was supposed to make care more affordable, and it was supposed to increase the quality of care by promoting preventive medicine, as Obama noted in his article for JAMA.
Critics of the ACA have stated that it actually fails in every single one of its aims: healthcare access is limited thanks to the Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) that place...
As Alpert shows, while the ACA has helped to ensure that millions more Americans have coverage, the Affordable Care Act has also tightened the screws on providers by establishing ACOs, which have placed a variety of restrictive conditions on providers, such as how they must work to ensure that patients do not keep returning for the same problem over and over again. Though the ACOs mean well, the regulations they enforce under the ACA can handcuff providers and keep them from actually giving quality care to patients. So even if the ACA has allowed millions more Americans to obtain coverage and have access to care, the quality of care that they would normally expect to find may not actually be there thanks to regulatory acts of the ACOs. This is especially true, as Eckstein points out, in the case of emergency medical services (EMS) responsible for transporting patients to health care facilities. New guidelines from ACOs limit the number of options that EMS crews have when attempting to deliver patients to care providers in an emergency situation, as not every facility will be willing to accept them for fear of violating the terms of…
Titles: The Affordable Care Act: Can It Be Fixed? The Future of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act The Pros and Cons of Obamacare The Effects of Obamacare on American Small Businesses Topics: What are the main arguments for and against Obamacare? How much should Americans pay for healthcare insurance? Why do Americans pay more for their healthcare than consumers in some other countries? Is Obamacare’s individual mandate unconstitutional? Outline: I. Abstract II. Introduction III. Body A. Background and Overview
Affordable Care Act will improve several aspects mentioned in this paper. Cost This act regulates costs that affect the consumer as well as those that affect the industry. The Affordable Care Act seeks to impact various groups, some of which include the companies that make drugs, the hospitals offering care, the companies making medical equipment, insurance both for public health as well as private health and all consumers whether they earn large
Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a new health insurance reform associated with direct advantages besides the minimal drawbacks. One advantage of this reform relates to health care intensity and quality. As a result, the cost of health care services differs according to providers in different geographic locations. Consistency could be achieved, health care quality improved, and costs minimized if providers practice consistent with best practice standards. If this is done,
health care industry, in terms of the economics of that business, and how it is structured. The Affordable Care Act was introduced in 2010 in order to address some of the issues that are inherent in the health care industry, namely a high rate of uninsured and skyrocketing costs that were threatening the quality of care for everybody else. The reality is that the ACA has been highly successful.
References http://kff.org/health-reform/perspective/can-we-learn-from-aca-implementation-and-improve-the-law/Altman, D. (2013). Can We Learn From ACA Implementation and Improve the Law? Retrieved June 8th, 2013, from the Affordable Care Act: From Hiccups to Repeal Most important aspects The author presents three important aspects that are a continuum of the implementation of the ACA from hiccup to repeal. The first scenario is the hiccup scenario where implementation issues are expected in the ACA implementation. This is where glitches are found that
Obamacare good for the economy? The issue must be looked at from three points-of-view, One the development that goes on in the health care and how the policy ahs affected the health care industry and particularly various sections of the society, secondly the economic changes and developments that have come about in the medical care industry, and the burden and changes in the nations economy as a whole and whether