Negative Economic Impact of the Patient Protection and Accountable Care Act The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) also referred to as ObamaCare, federal healthcare law, Affordable Care Act, or ACA, is a United States federal Statute signed into law on March 23, 2010, by President Barack Obama. In combination with the Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act, it represents the most significant regulatory overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system since the passage of Medicare and
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The study herein analyzes the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, abbreviated as PPACA. The study relies on three scholarly journal articles that assist in deepening knowledge about PPACA. The main focus of this study is to discuss the impact of this policy decision. It mainly focuses on one positive and one negative effect that this policy has in healthcare. Introduction The recently passed PPACA increases access to various health services. For instance, it increases access by citizens
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Western Governors University AMT 2 Task 3 New and/or Pending U.S. Legislation The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) The purpose of the PPACA is to ensure more Americans have access to quality healthcare. According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the PPACA is paid for and will provide quality healthcare to more than 94% of Americans. The PPACA will, or is supposed to, eliminate lifetime and unreasonable annual limits on healthcare benefits; prohibit health insurance policy
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A Research Paper on The United States’ Health Care Policy Patient Protection Affordable Care Act (PPACA) I. Delineation and overview of policy under analysis a.) What is the policy to be analyzed? The policy to be analyzed is the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act (PPACA) or colloquially referred to as Obamacare. The PPACA Bill was passed into law after Barack Obama signed it on March 23, 2010. However, it should be noted that specific provisions in the law is designed to be effective
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The Economics of Health Care Quality and Medical Errors Charles Andel, Stephen L. Davidow, Mark Hollander, and David A. Moreno Charles Andel, MBA, BSRT, is Manager of Radiology Quality and Compliance at Loyola University Medical Center and a graduate of Loyola University Chicago’s Quinlan School of Business MBA in Healthcare Management program. He may be reached at cjandel@lumc.edu. Stephen L. Davidow, MBA, APR, is a health care marketing and communications professional with a strong focus
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nursing homes. Health insurance do not pay enough and many people will be upset with the new changes, because it takes more money from Medicaid and Medicare. There are growing concerns for people who have loved ones in nursing homes due to the economic impact of nursing facility, poor quality of service, and the frequent abuse of patients. The primary audience for my topic would be the citizens who are against the government changing the laws for Medicaid and Medicare. The secondary audience would
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Fat Tax in the United States Abstract The United States has one of the least healthy populations in the entire world. That seems out of skew because we are also considered one of the most powerful. In the near future we will have a universal healthcare program that will basically enforce everybody to have health insurance of some sort. You would think you would want this for a nation on route to good health. This is not the case now, but there is one way in starting the path. Fat Tax in the
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access, however, there are also different private bodies involved in regulating the healthcare sector. Health care regulation is focused on three main roles; cost control, quality control, and access expansion and control. This paper will discuss the impact of ACA on health care organizational policies. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a health care regulation signed into law on the 23rd of March, 2010. The law’s main focus had been to increase the affordability and quality
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State Medicaid Policy and Health Reform Harold A. Pollack University of Chicago Authors: Pollack, Harold A.1 Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law; Feb2013, Vol. 38 Issue 1, p161-163, 3p The article discusses the positive and negative implications of the new ruling that the federal government could not require states that receive federal funds under the Medicaid program to participate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's (PPACA's) Medicaid expansion. Several shortcomings
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tragic event which stem from occurrences such as floods, earthquakes, catastrophic accidents, explosions or fires. The disasters cause extensive damage to lives, properties and destroy the social, economic and the cultural lives of people. Several events have happened currently around the world. The negative events in the world often cause much attention as compared to the positive events that occur around the world. The terrorists have often struck various cities in the world killing thousands of people
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