Affordable Health Care

I will compare the current health care system with the new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) that became law on March 23, 2010.   The current system, which is being phased out between 2011 and 2018 is increasingly inaccessible to many poor and lower-middle-class people. About 47 million Americans lack health insurance, an increase of more than two million people from 2005 (Rover, 2011) the increasingly complex warfare between insurers and hospitals over who pays the bills is gobbling up a great deal of money and the end result is that the United States pays roughly twice as much per

For the last five years of my life I have worked in the healthcare industry. One of the biggest issues plaguing our nation today has been the ever rising cost of health care. If we don't get costs under control, we risk losing the entire system, as well as potentially crippling our economy. For the sake of our future, we must find a way to lower the cost of health care in this nation.

Reforming health care in the United States has been an issue that has received significant attention for many years. There are many strong and divergent opinions on the best ways to improve the US healthcare system. In 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law. This was likely one of President Obama’s most important acts while President, and is often considered his signature piece of legislation. The ACA is an extensive lawthat has an effect on many different elements of the healthcare system in the United States. Some of the primary goals of the ACA were to increase access to care by expanding insurance coverage, to decrease the cost of care, and to improve the quality of care patients receive

Affordable health care has always been a problem in the United States of American yet we have the largest economy in the world. The Affordable Care Act was signed on March 23, 2010 yet so many Americans are still unable to pay for health insurance. By examining the situation, we can look for problems such as possibly reducing military spending and relocating the extra towards health care which is just one of the examples. A country as large as the United States should not have a problem implementing affordable health care for its citizens. The current cost of health care in the United States should be Affordable for everyone regardless of income.

“The amount people pay for health insurance increased 30 percent from 2001 to 2005, while income for the same period of time only increased 3 percent.” (Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation). The rising cost of healthcare is a huge problem in America today. In this paper I will analyze the different issues and causes for the increase in cost.

The healthcare delivery system of the United States is one that is complex and expensive yet still ranks below average in outcomes in comparison to other countries. For the last eight years President Obama has been trying his hardest to find a way in which to make healthcare affordable for all. He created the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) in order to increase health insurance to a large portion of the United States population who otherwise were uninsured. The Affordable Care Act provides US citizens with better health security by putting in place a comprehensive healthcare delivery system that would increase coverage, hold insurance companies accountable, lower costs, guarantee coverage to all, and improve the quality of

According the world health organization, healthy policy is encompassing the decisions, actions and plans that are undertaken in order to achieve particular healthcare goals within a particular society.

As President, it shall be the policy of the executive branch, to the extent consistent with law, to help with the purchase of health insurance across State lines and the development of a healthcare system that provides high-quality care at affordable prices for the American people. We will increase choices and promote competition to lower the cost of health care. I will make sure to provide our nation with affordable health care benefits and will spend as much that is necessary to bring healthcare up to the standards that we all have.

Today’s current Health Care Policy under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), has many issues that are imposing serious costs to American people. The U.S. life expectancy rate is much lower than it should be, when being compared to the rest of the world’s costs on health care and their life expectancy rates. Many problems have concurred with the quality being provided to patients under government programs, such as patients not receiving the full medical attention they need, solely because the physician has no reasonable incentive to provide excellent care to these low-paying patients. Although, it is not the patients’ fault for these quality

From 2010 to 2018, the ACA emphasizes its key objectives for delivering new consumer safeguards, refining quality and decreasing costs, increasing access to affordable care and holding insurance companies responsible. Each year they are prohibiting, preventing, extending, improving, addressing and encouraging new conditions, policies and costs. As the revolution in health care is a speedy stride the results of the problems have outperformed the U.S’ civilization's capacity to restructure the thinking, values and expectations that were more suitable to a former

The palpable symptoms of our “sick health care system” are described almost daily in popular print and broadcast media. Almost one of every six Americans have no health insurance, health care spending is escalating rapidly, administrative costs are excessive, and medical errors (including overuse and underuse of medications and procedures) are rampant. Less frequently discussed, but of fundamental importance, are systemic problems in the financing of health care and in the organization and delivery of care.

The healthcare system plays a key role in the economic stability of our country, as every year trillions are spent in attempt to combat disease and health issues that plaque humanity. As it makes up a significant amount of the expenditures in the economy, so the costs associated with health care of those in pain from illness and injury, including lost productivity, increased need of assistance in living and also the cost of death in some cases, is important to the economic stability and over all standard of living in our country. The key to economic prosperity is balancing the need for care with the costs of illness to keep as many people healthy and well without breaking the bank of collective society. The costs of healthcare have been increasingly problematic in recent years with so many issues surrounding the current system. With the “total health care spending in the United States expected to reach $4.8 trillion in 2021, up from $2.6 trillion in 2010 and $75 billion in 1970, meaning that health care spending will account for nearly 20 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), or one-fifth of the U.S. economy, by 2021” (Aetna). With this in mind it is apparent that as we look at the trillion-dollar industry of the medical community it seems that it needs to be a major focus of our nation as a whole and with the many issues come many creative solutions. First let us analyze the reasons behind the current cost and the major problems facing this industry and than discus what

health insurance to full-timers or pay a fine. In 2006, those with less than 100 employees will

This is important to the US. because many people could be very sick. Democrats are big on affordable health care. The democratic party supports Obamacare, they feel that everyone deserves health care. And if they can't afford food, they can get food stamps. Along with health care comes Planned Parenthood, Democrats support this because it provides abortion and other health care needs.

Studies have shown that there is an estimated 44,789 deaths per year (Should All Americans Have the Right to Health Care?, 2017) in America just due to the fact that there are uninsured Americans without health care. Imagine if that number was obsolete. Lives would be saved and most of all, more Americans would be insured. With the implementation of affordable healthcare for all citizens, the government would be providing healthcare for the overall benefit of its citizens. Application of affordable health care is a necessity, meaning many more would be insured, and as a result there would be less deaths due to being uninsured.