Affordable Care Goals

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ACA was created with the purpose of making sure every American would have access to healthcare coverage, as well as provide more benefits for citizens so they could receive any healthcare services. The major goals of The Affordable Care Act are: “provide Americans with health insurance will have access to a number of new benefits, rights, and protections, make insurance affordable, eliminate certain bias’s that used to affect coverage approval such as age, gender, and preexisting conditions, and to help boost the economy by reducing the deficit.” (Affordable Care Act Summary, n.d.)
Two other important aspects that were also signed into law the same time as The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are: The Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act and The Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act. The Reconciliation Act amended many things in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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There have been raises on a number of taxes to help compensate for the higher of influx of individuals needing to be covered under the new mandate. Complications have arisen when citizens go to file taxes because of the options of the individual mandate which requires them to obtain coverage, find an exemption or pay a fee. The problem this causes if a person meets the qualifications for assistance they have to file a different tax form but some of the cut offs are so close it causes some confusion to which form they should file.
Obama created the ACA with the intention of equal coverage for all without being able to be dropped by the insurance company. However, there is still a good amount of people who might not be getting dropped by their insurance companies, but they are now getting dropped by their physicians. This is what I would change about the ACA, I would add in the stipulation if insurance companies can’t drop clients then physicians should not be able to drop client for being compliant and having