change of laws governing the nursing home. The Federal Nursing Home Reform Act that was passed in 1987 which allowed the elderly the right to a bed and a meal if they qualified for Medicaid and Medicare. “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) will have a negative impact on the Commonwealth of Virginia” says Robert F. McDonnell Governor of Virginia. (Virginia Commonwealth of Virginia, 2011). My primary and secondary audience is extremely important, because the different view points that
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ObamaCare, also known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) H.R. 3590, or Affordable Care Act (ACA) for short, was signed into law on March 23rd, 2010 by President Barack Obama. The health care bill was designed to grant Americans a number of new benefits, rights, and protections and ensure that more US citizens have access to affordable, quality health care. ObamaCare was also designed to decrease the rate of growth in health care spending and to “fix” the current health care
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Of all American healthcare organizations, safety-net hospitals are facing one of the largest curveballs, as nearly 30 million Americans stand to gain coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act beginning in 2014. Nationwide, only 2 percent of acute-care hospitals are safety-net facilities, but they currently provide about 20 percent of all uncompensated care to provided to the uninsured. Despite this statistic, a decline in America's uninsured is unlikely to relinquish the need
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State Insurance Exchanges as Catalysts to America’s Health Revolution HSC-536 W-Credit 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
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Bureau report noted approximately 49 million Americans did not have healthcare coverage in 2011. Moving forward, coverage options are expected to improve for some given the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2011. While the PPACA was originally expected to extend coverage to approximately 32 million uninsured through individual mandates, the creation of state health insurance exchanges with public subsidized coverage and expansion of Medicaid, the Supreme Court decision that
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United States federal statute that Barack Obama implemented during his first term of presidency. It was signed into law in 2010. This act is informally known as Obama Care, Obama’s Health Care Reform, The Affordable Care Act, or is abbreviated as PPACA. Although it has many different names, it is all the same thing; an attempt to improve the healthcare system of the United States. The main goal of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is to make insurance services available to the 32 million
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Fiscal and Monetary and Policies in the Health Care Industry (The Obama Health Care Reform / Low Interest Rate) During the economic recession and financial struggles at both the Federal and State levels, the lion’s share of focus has been and continuous being on Medicaid spending (Fiscal Policy). Since December 1, 2008, the State has reduced Medicaid reimbursement for impatient substance abuse services for three (3) consecutive years. St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx has been negatively impacted
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Payroll and Business Tax Accounting Chapter 1 – The Need for Payroll and Personnel Records Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) or Federal Wage and Hour Law – A federal statute of the United States that was established in 1932 by Senator Hugo Black. This statute “contains provisions and standards concerning minimum wage.” It also covers equal opportunity requirements so that everyone is paid a fair wage regardless of race or sex. It covers overtime and holiday pay, record keeping, and child labor
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Health Care in India, Ireland, South Korea, and United States Global Health Abstract The World Health Organization (WHO) defines universal health coverage as everyone having access to needed health services without the financial hardship that can follow (WHO, 2013). Health care should be accessible to all citizens, appropriately funded, provided by trained professionals, and affordable to all citizens. Health care changes from country to country in multiple aspects including: cost, availability
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Professional Development –Impact of IOM Report on Nursing Scholastica Ezeh Grand Canyon University Professional Dynamics NRS 430v Cynthia Yascavage August 29, 2012 Abstract Nursing profession has been growing at a very fast rate with estimated membership of over 3 million. They will play a vital role in helping to realize the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) legislation (IOM Report, 2010). For nurses to play their part in the transformation of the healthcare industry there were certain
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