Affordable Care Act Outline

 

 

Affordable Care Act Outline

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1. Introduction

Affordable Care Act was started to enhance affordable health insurance. The optimal process was enhancing patients and workforce care, and working towards achieving quality, performance with the care system, and emphasizing in wellness and prevention. Emphasizing the need to have individual insurance market benefits from these insurances.

1. Purpose for ACA
2. Affordability of healthcare insurance to the United States citizens
   1. Medical care accessibility
   2. Improving service delivery and quality
      1. Ease in health insurance accessibility through:
         • Increased patient protection,
         • Improved healthcare working conditions
      2. Improved quality, performance, prevention, delivery of care.
      3. Citizens without medical insurance
         • Unemployment or low-paying jobs.
      4. Special group persons
         • Disabled, low-income earners, elderly and those with preexisting conditions such as HIV.
         • Insurances benefits on Individual insurance markets.

• Effects of Affordable Care Acts

1. Tax credits on business owners.
   1. Benefits to the insurance on children
      1. Business owners and tax credits
      2. Insurances cost for business employees under the Affordable Care Act
      3. Tax credits and entrepreneurial businesses

• Improves individuals employability
• Encouraging individuals’ job insurance benefits to their employees.

1. Increased entrepreneurial businesses and individuals’ employability.
2. Tax credits and high premium subscription (Sommers et al., 2017).
   • Tax credits against the individual’s income.
     1. High tax versus high income
   • Pharmaceutical sales and medical devices to sustain ACA.
3. Reducing healthcare cost through preventative measures
   1. Preventative measures and economic growth
      1. Reducing bankruptcy in the family is the diagnosis and treatment.
      2. Including medical expenses bills.
      3. Preventative measures and preventions of chronic diseases (McCormick, 2017)
         1. Providing limitless numbers of individuals visit the healthcare facility diseases.
      4. Health care services quality limits administrative costs and profits.
         1. Health care utilization and cost burden to the patient.
            1. Findings on medical care training
         2. mHealth & EHR
            1. Computerized medical records to clients
            2. Reducing frauds in medical field for both suppliers and doctors
            3. Background checks on the elderly persons clinics
            4. Use of medical records by patients, insurance companies, and doctors.
         3. The health of healthcare services cost
            1. Reduced administrative costs and profits.
               1. Limited health care access and implemented consumer-centered strategies.
            2. Revenue cycles and Finance
               1. Funds impact on medical care quality and accessibility
                  1. Attracting doctors to underserved communities.
                  2. Enabling underserved communities to gain equal quality care.
                  3. Lowering healthcare costs, enhancing accessibility to insurances and reaching out to more patients.
               2. Conclusion

Affordable Care Act is essential for all American citizens including the low incomes, the unemployed, disables and elderly.

Tax credit, prevention healthcare, and medical service delivery are made affordable. Enhanced consumers’ protection, improved healthcare quality and system performances.

Affordable care act is made accessible to people of color and minority through ease of insurances

They need to have considerable concerns towards the economy impacting to income and taxes.

It is essential to enhance the understanding of the costs and impact understanding of the high out-of-pocket costs and have the most significant impacts on the patients’ utilizations.

Accessibility impacts the overall health and the organizations’ impacts on alleviating the cost burdens and taking advantage of the necessary opportunities.

References

Sommers, B. D., Maylone, B., Blendon, R. J., Orav, E. J., & Epstein, A. M. (2017). Three-year impacts of the Affordable Care Act: improved medical care and health among low-income adults. Health Affairs, 36(6), 1119-1128.

Gaffney, A., & McCormick, D. (2017). The Affordable Care Act: implications for healthcare equity. The Lancet, 389(10077), 1442-1452.