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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President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, on March 23, 2010. In order to understand how the ACA brought more people into coverage lets first look at the statistics of the uninsured before the ACA (2010) and a six years later (2016). In the year of 2010 the Census Bureaus 2011 Current Population Survey (CPS) stated, that there were 49.9 million uninsured individuals in 2010, or 16.3% of the total population (ASPE, 2011), which decreased to 28 million in 2016. As you can see under the ACA almost…
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Josh Castle Texas, Medicaid, and The Affordable Care Act Castle 1 Medicaid was put into action by the Social Security Act in 1965 and is designed to give free health insurance to individuals or families that cannot help themselves, or simply do not make enough money to afford private insurance. People that qualify for this program are those that have low-income, families and children, elderly, pregnant women, and people with disabilities. Though this program already covered a large amount of…
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with key indicators for risk behaviors such as seat belt use, wearing helmets, regular exercise and tobacco use. I believe that many of these changes came about related to the Affordable Care Act. In researching some of the strategies put in place to prevent illness Koh & Sebelius (2010) explain that the Affordable Care Act worked to…
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operational costs have been allocated through the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the initial appropriation of $200 million for the building and renovation of SBHCs should be an incentive to increase the number of SBHCs in public schools. Since funding has been capped at the initial appropriation level, SBHCs will have to sustain their services overtime by diligently billing Medicaid or private insurance. However, these forms of payment often need sophisticated billing processes that can be costly…
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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 Moynihan Report…
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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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Teela Carmack September 22, 2014 Article or Case Law Research What is ObamaCare? ObamaCare is another name for The Affordable Care Act (ACA); this is a federal law established in 2010 that establishes new consumer protections for individuals with their health insurance coverage, standards for care by doctors and hospitals and an expansion of health coverage. Most of the protections are in effect, care standards are being phased in over time, and the expansion of health coverage…
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family history play a role in getting breast cancer. Of the known treatment options, such as chemotherapy, radiation and surgery, the spiritual component should not be overlooked. Studies show that the accessibility to spiritual guidance results in better outcome and quality of life. In a multi-institutional crosssectional study of 170 patients with advanced cancer, more use of positive religious coping methods was associated with better overall quality of life. PICO QUESTION In Women with breast…
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Detriments of the Affordable Care Act The Detriments of the Affordable Care Act It can be argued that there is no field as deeply opinionated as the political field. With the mass population’s well-being at stake there is always passion driving the debate. Where passions lie opinions become heated, and for someone who cares deeply on a subject it can be hard to compromise. Throughout the history of the United States, the US government has continuously tried to reform health care through various means…
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