State Insurance Exchanges as Catalysts to America’s Health Revolution
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Saud Al Busmait (C060-797-64)
4/30/2012

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act signed into law on March 23rd 2010 are both essential portions of American legislation, as well as wildly misunderstood in their entirety. Personally, and from recent academic experience, I meant that to sound exactly as the previous sentence expressed. Prior to actually introducing the main topic of this paper, being the ACA’s health insurance exchanges, and beginning to write, I honestly found myself experiencing writers block. This was so strange as there is an endless amount of very straightforward information available on the topic. I realized that the problem was rather interesting. I felt the need to first express my opinions of the ACA on a simpler note, purely writing what I really felt and believed about it as the thoughts flowed.
I now realize why that was so. I believe that it was my newfound understanding and strong, honest support for the act that I had to sell, to at least a sufficient degree, to whomever may read this college student’s paper. This “sufficient degree” of mine is a fair understanding of the long-term, national importance that the ACA’s provisions may serve, ultimately through the efficiency of health insurance exchanges. The national importance being served is exponentially expanding medical care to the U.S. population, as well as a consequent attempt to save the land they call home. Saving it that from complete financial ruin, greatly due to the potentially irreversible results of continuous growth of healthcare costs around 2040. In a sense, I felt that the possibility of the idea behind the exchanges being misunderstood, and therefore prematurely rejected, would be too disappointing.