The Patient Protection and Affordable care Act after being implemented change the major format of how healthcare was provided and acquired to individuals. It changed many areas that have been installed as the norm for years, things such as cost, preexisting conditions, and who needs to offer care. My personal belief is that the major aim of the act, was to help the millions of uninsured Americans become insured. For America, this was the first giant leap in a long time to try to fix and improve a faulty system. Trying to update an old system of course comes some issues with the procedures and framework of implementation that causes items not to be functioning on an optimal level. One aspect that still need cause focus, improvement and actions …show more content…
Things such as parking spaces, wide enough doorways and just natural traveling within the facilities are deterrents to these people for seeking care. Including the lack of height-adjustable examination tables, weight scales accessible for those with mobility or activity limitations, lack of broad doorways for wheelchairs, and sign language interpreters for the deaf (Schwartz,2012). The failure to enter a building is not the main reason individuals can’t be accommodated. Inaccessible equipment is a far more common barrier (Lagu, Lezzoni, & Lindenauer, 2014).
Bridging this gap in accessibility of access of care is a difficult mission. Establishing a culture of community participation and communication is need between healthcare providers and disable patients. We have laws in places, like the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which is a wide ranging federal legislation intending on making American society more accessible to people with disabilities (ADA,
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The challenges we face with access of care can extremely discriminate and damaging to individuals, families, and communities. Barriers of accommodation, availability, accessibility and acceptability are obstructions that need to be demolished. 28% of insured people with disabilities reported needing particular therapies, equipment or medications that were not covered by their health plans, compared to 7 percent of those without disabilities (N.O.D, 2000). Enforcement efforts recently have failed to bring a need change to the healthcare access for disable people. Regardless of their disability, they should have access to affordable, comprehensive, and adaptive
In today's world, one would assume that America is hitting all the marks, when in reality we are falling short in what may count the most. We are not meeting the basic needs of our largest minority group, mentally and physically disabled people. Lack of accessibility is a difficult hurdle for both physically and cognitively disabled people. Lawmakers have a duty to everyone in America, not just the able, and encouraging accessibility in the public is the first step in the right direction.
This analysis looks at the work of Sara Rosenbaum, the editor of “D, The Americans with Disabilities Act in a Health Care Context” peer review article. It covers various subjects about the American with Disability Act (ADA). The subjects are an overview of the ADA, the ADA and access to health care, and the ADA and health care coverage and financing. Rosenbaum has put emphasis the importance of the ADA in the health care. In addition to that, there are highlights of the ADA standards and regulations. This peer review article has made me aware that people with disabilities do belong and that they have
This report serves to review the research completed by Eric Lipp and the Open Doors Organization (ODO). Through familiarity with the issue, analysis, and sound recommendations, we conclude that the research was sound and beneficial to a very large demographic of people with disabilities.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 is the first major healthcare act passed since the 1967's Medicare and Medicade act. Obamacare is the name given by critics, because of the power that is given to the federal government to regulate healthcare prices. The reason given that this act was passed is that it willl save billions of federal dollars each year. Many people against the act believe it should be repealed ,and the reason for this is, because it gives away healthcare to people who don't pay for it. The act also takes away from seniors who really need the medi,cade benefits, and also makes doctors increase how much people pay them. The Patient Protection and Affordable
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are 49 million Americans without healthcare insurance and more than 10 million are non-U.S. citizens (http://www.census.gov). Because many people are uninsured and those that do have insurance pay high deductibles, Americans often dismiss the need for doctor’s visits for minor problems or annual physicals. As a result, health problems that can be detected at an early stage or prevented altogether become major illnesses. Individuals with disabilities hold one of the biggest weaknesses in the healthcare system because they cannot often obtain affordable health coverage.
In March of 2010, President Barack Obama signed into effect the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or widely known as “Obamacare.” The changes that the act is making with all of health care will slowly be implemented throughout the years, and should be completed by 2022 (Obamacare Facts: Dispelling the Myths). In the Affordable Care Act it changes or alters almost all programs that we have today and creates new programs to assist people and properly state what type if care is expected and required of health care professionals. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act includes all of the following departments of health care, Affordable Health Care for America Act, the Patient Protection Act, the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act, and effects the Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act and the Health and Public Services Act (Obamacare Facts: Dispelling the Myths). The Affordable Care Act will make many changes, but some of the big changes that will occur involve the patients quality of care, the benefits that all of America will receive with the prevention measures it will be taking, the total availability and access of health care for all Americans, and how all Americans health care finances will be altered.
Accessibility is a Dimension that I found surprising. All the nations, except of course The United States, has accessibility present in their framework. In the United States accessibility is not granted to everyone. As I previously stated, Healthcare should be a right. Everyone should have unequivocal accessibility to healthcare. In order to provide accessibility to everyone, the United States would need to implement a universal healthcare system that is fair and impartial.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act consists of 10 legislative titles which within themselves have major goals. The first goal is to try and achieve close to perfect universal coverage through individuals, employers and the government as well. The second is aimed at improving the quality and affordability of health insurance. The third 's goal is that of improving health care value and quality while doing
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act offers many healthcare benefits to a diverse group of American citizens. However, there are a few downsides as well. The major portions of the act deal with four primary issues:
The authors of the article examine the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and talks about the effects it is going to have on the U.S. healthcare system. The ACA plans to do things like lower healthcare expenditures and make healthcare more accessible. It also plans to get 25 million previously uninsured Americans insured by 2019. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was enacted on March 23, 2010 by President Barack Obama marking it the greatest policy change since the 1960s when Medicare and Medicaid was created.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law in 2010. The ACA is considered the most expansive healthcare reform legislation in the United States since the formation of Medicaid and Medicare in 1965 (Berg & Dickow, 2014). The creation of the ACA ushered in a new progression for the United States healthcare system that put an emphasis on preventive services and primary care (Berg & Dickow, 2014). The ACA also aided in the public problem of the being uninsured in this country. It worked to provide insurance coverage to millions within the United States who are currently uninsured. The ACA is also working to combat the problem areas within the current healthcare system that are of need of modification so that the consumer needs for safe care and improved health outcomes are met (Berg & Dickow, 2014). The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s goals are to the address many different components of reform. It addresses implementing ways for quality, affordable health care for all Americans, the role of pubic programs, enhancing the quality and efficiency of health care, the prevention of chronic disease as well as improving public health, the health care workforce, improved transparency and program integrity policies, improve the access to innovative medical therapies, community living assistance services and supports, and lastly, revenue provisions (Berg & Dickow, 2014).
Hello all human beings of all the gender identities upon the spectrum or not and welcome back to my Youtube channel, Sara-ndepity. Thank you for the continuous support and subscribing! And for those who happened to stumble here, feel free to like, comment, and subscribe. For today’s topic, I am going talk about a more serious topic compared to the usual posts and that’s the issue of healthcare and accessibility.
All they want is to take part of society as a normal individual. The disability-movement has fought for the disabilities rights throughout the years and has achieved goals such as accommodation of architectural infrastructures to serve better people who are physical impairments. The public policies have been great accomplishments because it has helped people with disabilities to be part of society. The disability-movement points out the healthcare finance policies have taken freedom away from the disability community, “ Health-care financing policies force disabled people into Institutions and nursing homes rather than funding independent living. Income-maintenance and public health-insurance policies include “disincentives” that penalize disabled individuals for trying to work productively.”(p.4). The government has done a great job on protecting disabled individuals’ rights. However, the health-care system has isolated this group even more by restricting the level of productivity that they have within the system, as a result this medical model marginalizes this group of people and this program available for this community does not fully address their issues.
The most common legal issue facing disabled people like the inability to access required services. Some of these challenges they face are occupational and speech therapies, agencies for health insurance and regional centers. The enactment of the act of equality when it comes to access to services has improved the condition as today there is access to all government services (Block, 2016).
In a perfect world with unlimited time and money, health-care would be easily accessible for all patients; from businessmen making millions on Wall Street down to the homeless living on the street, all patients would be treated equally. However, the real world is far from a perfect place, and a large portion of society is neglected and discriminated against in receiving the healthcare they need: the disabled population. Over a billion people in the world have some form of disability with between 110 million and 190 million having significant trouble in functioning.1 With resources limited, these disabled patients do not have all the luxuries some other people may have in the aspect of health-care creating a viscous cycle of people needing more care yet not being able to receive it. The main problem of providing healthcare to individuals with disabilities lies within the inherent barriers of access to quality care for these patients. These barriers include lack of finances, lack of special equipment in facilities, and difficulties training providers to work with these patients. It is up to pharmacists and other healthcare providers to use the skills learned not only by their own individual specialties and practices but the skills learned by working together to help disabled persons receive the care that they need unobtainable by other means.