Affordable Care Act

Examples of Affordable Care Act in the following topics:

• The Affordable Care Act

  • In 2010, Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, initiating the first significant overhaul of the healthcare system since 1965.
  • After months of political wrangling and condemnations of the healthcare reform plan, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was passed and signed into law on March 23, 2010.
  • Discontent over the Affordable Care Act helped the Republicans capture the majority in the House of Representatives in the 2010 midterm elections.
  • Hobby Lobby, the Court ruled that "closely-held" for-profit corporations could be exempt on religious grounds under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act from regulations adopted under the Affordable Care Act that would have required them to pay for insurance that covered certain contraceptives.
  • President Obama signs the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law on March 23, 2010, as Vice President Biden, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and others look on.

• Current Issues in Health Care

  • Current issues in the U.S. health care system largely revolve around the significant policy changes resulting from the Affordable Care Act.
  • In December of 2009, the Senate passing a bill called Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
  • The Affordable Care Act addresses this through legislation, saying providers cannot refuse coverage.
  • This map outlines the voting distribution in 2009 when the Affordable Health Care Act was brought to the floor.
  • Explain the main parts of the Affordable Care Act and the current American healthcare system

• Divided Government

  • Discontent over Democratic President Obama's Affordable Care Act helped the Republicans capture the majority in the House of Representatives in the 2010 midterm elections.
  • The Senate stripped the bill of the measures meant to delay the Affordable Care Act and passed it in revised form on September 27, 2013.
  • On October 1, 2013, many aspects of the Affordable Care Act implementation took effect, and the health insurance exchanges created by the Act launched as scheduled.
  • Much of the Affordable Care Act is funded by previously authorized and mandatory spending, rather than discretionary spending, and the presence or lack of a continuing resolution did not affect it.
  • Obama signs the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act at the White House, March 23, 2010

• Gender Inequality in Health Care

  • Gender discrimination in health care could be changing in the United States.
  • Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (informally called "Obamacare"), passed under President Barack Obama in 2010, insurance companies would be prohibited from charging men and women differently.
  • In the context of the 2012 contraceptive mandate debate, health care professionals' assessments that contraception is an integral component for women's health care, regardless of sexual activity, went largely unaddressed.
  • This bill is seen as a vital step in combating gender inequalities in the health care system.
  • Identify three ways in which gender inequality in health care manifests itself in the United States

• Promoting Public Welfare and Income Redistribution

  • He did so through the establishment of programs such as Medicare and Medicaid-- federal programs that exist to the present day that ensure certain levels of health care coverage for America's poor and elderly.The Great Society initiative further established educational programs such as the National Endowment for the Arts and generally deployed the executive bureaucracy to better welfare programs for the American public at large.
  • This law is called the Affordable Care Act, but is more commonly known as Obamacare.

• Health Care Reform

  • In 2003 Congress passed the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act , which President George W.
  • Part of this legislation included filling gaps in prescription-drug coverage left by the Medicare Secondary Payer Act that was enacted in 1980.
  • In 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was enacted by President Obama, providing for the introduction, over four years, of a comprehensive system of mandated health insurance with reforms designed to eliminate some of the least-desirable practices of the insurance companies (such as precondition screenings, rescinding policies when illness seemed imminent, and annual and lifetime coverage caps).
  • A national pilot program is established for Medicare on payment bundling to encourage doctors, hospitals, and other care providers to better coordinate patient care.
  • Explain the elements and provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Act and discuss the history of health-care reform in the 20th century

• Health Care Policy

  • Health care in the United States is provided by many distinct organizations.
  • The legislation, known as Act 48, establishes health care in the state as a "human right" and lays the responsibility on the state to provide a health care system which best meets the needs of the citizens of Vermont.
  • The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), commonly called Obamacare (or the federal health care law), is a United States federal statute signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010.
  • Together with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, Obamacare represents the most significant regulatory overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965.
  • Public spending accounts for 45% to 56.1% of U.S. health care spending.

• Defining Health, Health Care, and Medical Care

  • Health care economics is a segment of economic study pertaining to the value, effectiveness, and efficiency in health care services.
  • Health care economics is a segment of economic study pertaining to the value, effectiveness, and efficiency in medical care and health care services and issues.
  • Health care is a significant concern for patients, insurance companies, governments, businesses, health care providers, researchers, and non-profits.
  • Demand for Health Care (Box C): The overall health care demand, which is a complex array of inputs that can be summarized as health care seeking behaviors, and what factors influence them (i.e. externalities, price, time, perspectives, etc.).
  • At the time of this writing (2013), the Affordable Care Act (often referred to as 'Obamacare') will be coming into play shortly.

• Aging

  • The various forms that elderly care services can take include assisted living, adult day care, long-term care, nursing homes, hospice care, and in-home care.
  • The different institutions can further be classified as medical (skilled) care and non-medical (social) care.
  • In 1965, Congress created Medicare under the Social Security Act in order to provide health insurance to U.S. citizens over the age of 65, regardless of their income and medical history.
  • Aside from premiums paid by Medicare enrollees along with the fund source itself, Medicare is financed by revenue levied on employers and workers through the Federal Insurance Contributions Act and the Self-Employment Contributions Act.
  • While the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is supposed to address many issues confronting the healthcare sector today, the rising cost of healthcare remains a national problem, as patients are paying more in order to receive the same care as before.

• Paying for Medical Care

  • As noted in the previous section, disparities in health care are often related to an individual's or a group's ability to pay for health care.
  • Despite the claims of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, however, it is important to remember that researchers have long demonstrated that access to health insurance will not likely have much impact on health disparities due to the importance of varied types of social, psychological, material, symbolic, and political resources in the overall construction, maintenance, and challenge of health inequalities.
  • Healthcare changes in the United States, however, are typically rife with conflict, slow to progress, and dominated by concerns about profits rather than patients, which often leads to a highly fractured and conflict-oriented approach with little room for significant changes except over vast periods of time (see debates surrounding Social Security, the Hill-Burton Act, the EMTALA, and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act for examples.
  • Publicly funded health care facilitates the creation of uniform standards of care.
  • Health care workers' pay is often not related to quality or speed of care.