The Affordable Care Act of 2010 is designed to lower healthcare costs and increase access to healthcare. In March of 2010, the U.S. Congress finished passing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (insert reference). President Barack Obama then signed these pieces of legislation into law, creating the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (insert reference). Together…
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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 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 Many people against the act believe it should be repealed ,and the reason for…
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What is the Affordable Care Act? On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law. With the Affordable Care Act, there is an improved access to affordable health coverage and provides protection against abusive insurance company practices. Some of the other focuses that encompass the Affordable Care Act is stronger consumer rights and protections, more affordable coverage, better access to care, and stronger Medicare. Details about the Affordable Care Act Insurance companies…
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write about the affordable care act, because one I really didn’t understand what the ACA or Affordable Care Act was and what it did for citizen in America. I also decided to write about the Affordable Care Act due to it being in the news since trump went into presidency, which interested me when it came about. I also wanted to go more in depth from what the Affordable Care Act was to any current information like if there were any changes being made about it. The Affordable Care Act, which is also…
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The Affordable Care Act and its Impact on the Prevention of Chronic Illness in Women's Health Marshirl Locklear Brenau University Health Policy and Managed Care HC740 Dr. David J. Miller November 30, 2013 The Affordable Care Act and its Impact on the Prevention of Chronic Illness in Women's Health Introduction Women have greater health care needs, especially during their reproductive years, than that of men ("Why the ACA Matters," 2012). In many families women coordinate the health care needs of…
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Daniel Bellido The Black Family Professor Davis The Affordable Care Act’s Effect on Minority Families in New Jersey The struggle of the African American family has …….In the 1960s, as Assistant Secretary of Labor for policy, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a member of the Kennedy administration, dedicated himself to formulating national policies that would eventually become the War on Poverty. In 1965, he released his research paper The Negro Family: The Case for National Action AKA The Moyni…
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To what extent should the Affordable Care Act “Obama Care”, be the responsibility of the Federal government, and not the burden of the state under the guidelines of Federalism? In the past years down to 2008 we the people have heard conflicting arguments about the Affordable Care Act, also known as “Obama Care”. Obama Care is a health insurance plan ran by the federal government. A health insurance plan in which everyone in the United States is eligible to have weather you are rich, middle class…
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with the added difficulties of medical insurance. The Affordable Healthcare Act implemented in 2010 aims to lesson these stresses. Maternal problems and birth complications are significantly more common in women without health insurance, preventing them from being able to receive proper prenatal care. Increasing availability and reducing costs of insurance for pregnant women will greatly reduce birth complications. As of 2010, health care plans are no longer allowed to discriminate. Insurance…
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Pre-Existing Conditions in the Affordable Health Care Act Charles A. Flood American Public University System Abstract Pre-existing conditions are defined as anything such as illness, injury, sickness, disease, etc., that exists at the time of or before any event; in this case applying for healthcare. The Affordable Care Act, or “Obamacare” passed in 2010 resolved this issue by stating that patients with preexisting conditions could not be denied healthcare. The GOP has submitted legislature to…
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all over the country are working and yet they still can’t afford to pay the high cost of health insurance for themselves and their families. Under the Affordable Care Act of 2010, which was signed by Obama on March 23, 2010, thirty two million Americans who were previously not eligible for Medicaid may now have the opportunity to be covered. If this act is passed in North Carolina then it will be expanded to cover nearly all of the 1.5 million North Carolinians who are without health insurance. If more…
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