Public Policy Reform And Obama Care

RESEARCH PAPER REQUIRMENTS

 

My topic is “ Public Policy Reform And Obama Care”

 

The paper must be 10 pages in length counting the title page and references. So, the actual writing pages may be 8 pages. Please make sure to read ALL the instructions I provided in Week 3 folder. Submitting a draft is optional. I have not set the date for a draft submission because I want to give you an opportunity to send it to me (via e-mail) any time before the week of finals but don’t wait until the night before.  The draft will not be graded. The purpose is to get you to write and not wait until the last minute, and for me to provide you with feedback on how to improve your final paper. If you believe that you have a good quality paper, and choose not to seek my input, you do not need to send the draft in. Instead, you will just submit the final paper. However, I strongly encourage you to either seek assistance from the writing center, or to send it to me for input.

 

 

PAPER FORMAT: All papers should conform to the following format requirements:

 

• Paper should have a title page which includes the title of the paper, your name, the course name, name of the professor, and style of citation you are using.
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• If you are using citation style other than APA, you must submit a copy of the citation guidelines (available on the library webpage))

 

WRITING STYLE

 

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http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/index.html

http://www.iolani.honolulu.hi.us/Keables/KeablesGuide/Start/contents.htm

 

PROPER CITATION Paper must be properly cited

 

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The following are examples of how to cite material properly:

 

Quote:

 

Chalk and King (1998, pg. 50), on behalf of the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine, argue: “the overall ‘system’ of family violence interventions is highly disjointed, loosely structured, and often lacks central coordinating offices or comprehensive service delivery systems.”

 

Citation within the text:

 

Trist (2005) argues that a ………………………..

 

Other citations:

Current intervention strategies function predominately to respond to violence once it has occurred (Chalk and King, 1998).

Multiple sources saying the same thing: 

In fact, family violence seems commonplace in families who are caring for an elderly relative with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease (Einmetz, 1988; Paveza, Smith and Jones, 2002; Tacerd, 2003).

RESEARCHING YOUR TOPIC

 

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Public policy reforms and “Obama” care

Introduction

Former American president Barack Obama plan of health care reform of 2010 became a new law and it is known as Obamacare. It is also known as patients protection and Affordable care Act.  Obama Care is the informal name for The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that was marked into law on March 23, 2010, by President Barack Obama. The essential target of social insurance change is to give human services inclusion to all Americans all around and to diminish the expenses of medicinal services administrations and inclusion (Skocpol, T., & Williamson, V. 2010). No significant changes had contacted the human services framework in the United States since 1965 when Medicare and Medicaid were set up. Medicinal services costs were ascending in America, and individuals who required clinical protection inclusion were being dropped or denied. Numerous endeavours to actualize Health Care Reform was made however never prevailing until Barack Obama's Presidency.

Objectives Of This Plan

To survey the elements impacting the choice to seek after wellbeing change, abridge proof on the impacts of the law to date, prescribe activities that could improve the human services framework, and recognize general exercises for the open strategy from the Affordable Care Act.

The main objectives of these plans are to change the private protection advertise particularly for people and little gathering buyers, to grow Medicaid to the stirring poor with pay up to 133% of the government neediness level, and to change how clinical choices are made. Every one of the 3 targets depends essentially on private decisions as opposed to government guideline and are established in desires for sound dynamic moulded by motivating forces however liberated by different requirements (Gelman, A., Lee, D., & Ghitza, Y. 2010, January). Furnishing more Americans with access to reasonable medical coverage. Furthermore, Provide medicinal services inclusion for all Americans all around. Improvement like social insurance and medical coverage, manage the health care coverage industry, diminish Healthcare expenses and spending in the US.

Affordability and Acceptability

This Affordable Care Act makes it easier for people to get as well as keep medical coverage. Under the law, individuals under age 26 can remain on a parent's medical coverage strategy. Obamacare disallows insurance agencies from denying plan interest because of wellbeing status, clinical history or condition, earlier cases understanding, hereditary data, incapacity, or proof of insurability. As such, safety net providers are required to acknowledge all candidates for individual and little gathering plans and to ensure strategy reestablishment, exception account of misrepresentation or default (Cantor, J. C., Monheit, A. C., DeLia, D., & Lloyd, K. 2012). Back up plans are not permitted to force prior condition avoidances on youngsters or grown-ups, and exorbitant holding up periods are precluded. State insurance commissions have expansive scope to control medical coverage organizations in their states; be that as it may, the Affordable Care Act expects states to embrace certain inclusion measures and customer assurances.

Important Aspect of this Law

• Fro this law Obama Employers with under 25 full-time comparable workers may meet all requirements for charge credits and other help for safeguarding representatives through the Health Insurance Marketplace.
• Obama Care can shield people from being dropped while wiped out, denied care because of lifetime limits, denied care for prior conditions, and offers Americans a superior legitimate remaining against medical coverage organizations. Point of Obama Care is to improve the nature of care for all Americans by giving better safeguard and wellbeing care to increase expectations of fundamental human services inclusion (Burge, M. R., & Schade, D. S. 2014).
• Obama Care takes out previous conditions and sex separation with the goal that no people can be charged more or can be dropped from their medical coverage inclusion for wellbeing or sexual orientation reasons.
• Obama Care guarantees Healthcare inclusion to any lawful US inhabitant who can't as of now get quality Healthcare through their employers with the goal that entrance to human services is never again reliant on medical coverage organizations.

Conclusion

Policymakers should expand on the progress made by the Affordable Care Act by proceeding to execute the Health Insurance Marketplaces and conveyance framework change, expanding government money related help for Marketplace enrollees, presenting an open arrangement alternative in territories lacking individual market competition, and taking activities to decrease professionally prescribed medication costs.

Reference:-

Skocpol, T., & Williamson, V. (2010). Obama and the transformation of US public policy: The struggle to reform health care. Ariz. St. LJ, 42, 1203.

Gelman, A., Lee, D., & Ghitza, Y. (2010, January). Public opinion on health care reform. In The Forum (Vol. 8, No. 1). De Gruyter.

Burge, M. R., & Schade, D. S. (2014). Diabetes and the Affordable Care Act.

Cantor, J. C., Monheit, A. C., DeLia, D., & Lloyd, K. (2012). Early impact of the Affordable Care Act on health insurance coverage of young adults. Health services research, 47(5), 1773-1790.