Affordable Care Act: Case Study

The law that was intended to improve the status quo of health care has, in essence, caused a dangerous paradigm shift in health care costs. Fundamentally, the Affordable Care Act is a failed attempt to reduce health care costs in the United States. The Act was designed to increase affordability of health insurance for extremely low-income families; nevertheless, the Act exponentially increased health insurance costs for the majority of Americans. In America, majority rules-- why should health care be an

The American health system has been controlled by private, all-for-profit companies who couldn’t care less about the health of a human, but are more worried about maximizing their dollars. If the Affordable Care Act is repealed, or “done away with”, tens of millions of Americans will be without adequate health insurance. This is exactly what Americans

It cuts wasteful spending and fraud, keep rates down and expand free preventative services. “Some Medicare payments to doctors and hospitals have been limited; Medicare pays doctors more than any other type of coverage, and these rates have led to very complex problems that are driving the costs of health care up for everyone.” In addition, retaining supplemental Medicare options means potentially confusing options for seniors. The unfounded death panel rumor led to cutting out an important provision in the law that would have provided end-of-life

Most Americans will be covered through their employer. One of the other problems that caused Americans to be uninsured was because they were not offered employer sponsored coverage. The other main objective of the ACA was to decrease the costs of healthcare insurance. With the Affordable Care Act, Americans will be able to afford insurance, or at least basic coverage (minimum essential

Based on an individual’s age will the cost differ monthly? I believe that this concept is a great concept, but a lot of issues can surface if not implemented right. I feel as if this is a motive to make everyone in some way pay for themselves to be insured, but not everyone wants to. There are still ways of receiving health care and not being insured. In Reinventing American Health Care, Emanuel wrote, “Uninsured Americans do get sick and need health care; they receive about 65 percent of the care they would receive if they were

Healthcare Administrator Positive Outlook on Overcoming Debt Millions of Americans are uninsured from the very young to the elderly leaving them more vulnerable to sickness and disease that may have been prevented if they had regular health screenings covered by insurance. Uninsured Americans are not going into clinics or hospitals until it is to late and their symptoms have become acute, because of their fear of having to pay medical bills that they are unable to afford. These individuals do not have the means to go and seek preventative care as insured individuals would be seen for leaving them more vulnerable to emergency room visits to address their health concerns. Under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) patients who come into a healthcare facility have the right to receive medical attention for acute symptoms without being turned away due to their inability to pay for treatment. This epidemic of healthcare facilities treating uninsured patients has financially burdened hospitals and left them with increasing financial debt.

With this said, the number of birth control consumers that will be affected by the rise of the cost of birth control will increase. Although the increasing cost of birth control will not affect non health insured. The number of non-insured Americans is lower than those Americans that are in fact enrolled in health care. This meaning that the majority of the consumers will have to pay out of their pocket to receive birth control pills over the counter. Making the cost of birth control will increase enormously.

ACA prohibits discrimination against anyone with preexisting conditions, dropping coverage if you become sick, and limiting your annual or lifetime benefits. Millions of uninsured will get access to affordable high quality health insurance. In order to get money to insure uninsured, net taxes are placed mostly on high earners and the health care industry. (obamacarefacts) The Affordable Care Act will help to improve the well-being and incomes of Americans by increasing coverage and lowering costs of health insurance, helping the rate of uninsured go down.

It’s harder for smaller businesses to follow the new rules and requirements than it is for the bigger businesses, since they don’t have big human resources departments to help them out. There is more added cost to all businesses because of the Affordable Healthcare Act. For small businesses owner it is very difficult to keep up when the rules of the game keep changing. For large businesses it was sold as a way to reign in those who run away from health care costs, but it also created compliance burdens for many employers, such as new reporting requirements, notices that all employers have to give to their workers and new costs through taxes and fees. These help pay for different parts of the law.

Immigrants face many barriers when it comes to gaining proper access to health care. Immigrants have the highest rate in the nation to not receive health insurance for the year. Not receiving health insurance is mainly due to the high cost of health care. Obtaining the proper health insurance is important for any human being because as humans we have to pay to be healthy. Immigrants come from their countries to seek better opportunities such as access to health care and health insurance.

I do not see how denying emergency care to illegal immigrants can be done pragmatically. These immigrants utilize the Emergency department for their care and often go there when they are quite ill which adds to the overall cost.

Argumentative Case With the upcoming election health care seems to be in talks again, just like with every election year, left sided candidates tend to lean towards a more equalized single paying system, where as the right wing candidates like to keep “America great” with it’s current marketplace system allowing more choice for Americans. Some might argue that a health care system for all would be costlier on tax payers; however, many studies show that a two-tier system would save American’s costs in a lot of ways. The argument will point out that the choices made in the health care marketplace only come at a cost for American taxpayers and federal and state governments (Munro, 2013). This argument will begin with the harm the current system

The cost of healthcare has increase exponentially through the years. Current government reimbursements are lower than the actual cost to provide healthcare services. Businesses are falling short of their revenue and are limited to the amount of money they received from Medicaid and Medicare. Limited revenue has lead to the common practice known as cost shifting, which accommodates for the losses of revenue and for uncompensated care. Cost shifting has been a matter of controversy.

Government management disagrees because how could we pay for the people that would get free health insurance, and don 't work. Sure they deserve it, but if it comes out of everyones tax pay, whats the cost. Free healthcare is what everyone works for. If it becomes free for everybody, then people would become jobless, which leads to high unemployment rates, and a decrease in salaries for doctors, which leads to fewer professionals.. The government is just not ready to pay major amounts of money for people to get healthcare they 'll use once every year or whenever there 's an emergency.

The most recent significant development is the rise of the consumer-directed health plan (CDHP), including such variants as health savings accounts (HSAs) and other types of high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) (Kongstvedt, 2009, p. 15). Consumer-directed health plans helps to reduce health care spending by choosing less expensive health services. Health savings accounts are health savings for individuals who are enrolled in high-deductible health plans (HDHPs). HSAs are exempted from federal tax income. High-deductible health plans are not like regular health plans.