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    The Affordable Care Act

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    The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is a healthcare program created by president Obama’s administration. The goal of the Affordable Care Act is to make sure every United States citizen has health insurance. The Affordable Care Act provides “affordable” health insurance plans to citizens that do not have any and make about $15,000 a year. While the idea of providing health insurance to the millions of American’s that cannot afford it is great, everything comes at a cost. According to Emily Miller

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    The Affordable Care Act The Affordable Care Act, also known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was put into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. The focus of the Act is a health care law geared towards improving the health care system of the United States by broadening medical coverage to more Americans, as well as protecting the existing health insurance policy holders. The Obama Administration, states that those people that already have

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    The Affordable Care Act

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    reform our healthcare system to no avail. Healthcare reform is clearly an issue that takes great socioeconomic knowledge and political tact. President Barack Obama is the first president to present us with such a plan. This plan is known as The Affordable Care Act or “Obamacare” (a term coined by a group of Republicans to disenfranchise

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    fix out of control spending on health care entitlements. But neither side could be specific on how they would make health care more affordable. If health care costs continued to climb at the current rate, benefits for Medicare and Medicaid would exceed tax revenue gathered by 2030. Politicians knew they had to find a way to make Medicare solvent or, it would consume all tax dollars collected, but finding a way to rein in costs and make healthcare affordable for all Americans wasn’t going to be an

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    The most radical reform made in the United States of America in the past 45 years has been the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The ACA was signed into law by President Obama on March 23, 2010 ("Key Features of the Affordable Care Act"). The purpose of the ACA is to redesign companies within the insurance industry in the United States, mandate everyone in the country to have health insurance, expand public insurances while private insurances subsidize, introduce newer taxes, and

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    Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Yolanda Raqueno HCS/455 April 17, 2013 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act The goal of this essay is to discuss the health care system in the United States. Another aim of this essay is to discuss the health policy, to improve, and to reduce inequalities. In the United States the private insurance system is a major provider of health care services, health care system is expensive and in many cases not efficient. This essay focuses

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    all around us, one that seems to be quite prevalent right now is the Affordable Care Act is also known as ACA or more commonly known as Obama Care, which is a derogatory term meant to lessen or negate the President who founded it. There are many issues with this particular act that it’s difficult to pinpoint just one. However, I feel as though the utmost obvious is the negative shadow that is cast upon the Affordable Care Act, this is the real problem. The greatest common insurance that is utilized

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    Affordable Care Act

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    Anderson, Amy. “The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on the Health Care Workforce.” The Heritage Foundation. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 July 2015. This paper is a through report on the impact of the ACA on the workers in healthcare, particularly on the ratio of worker to patients. It shows that the act will increase the physician shortage, particularly in already underserved areas and specialties. It will also greatly increase the stress on workers, due to the increase demand from each physician or nurse

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    The Affordable Care Act

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    at no cost: Under the ACA, nearly all insurers most provide specific preventative care to patients, at no cost. (HHS.gov, 2016) Consumer choice protection: Under the ACA, consumers have the right to choose whatever doctor they want from their insurance provider’s network. They also have the right to receive emergency treatment without requiring prior approval from their health insurance provider; and can receive care from other healthcare providers outside of their insurance provider’s network (HHS

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    Affordable Care Act

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    Health care is one of the major political issues facing the nation today. Most industrialized countries have national healthcare system, while the United States only provide coverage for those who are eligible under government programs like Medicare and Medicaid. As the cost of health care to continue to increase, many question the role of the government while other blame insurance companies for increase in premium. The United States spend entirely to much money on health care compared to other

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