Description
ACA and Health-Care Outcomes & Costs
What components of the ACA do you think will have a positive effect on improving health care outcomes and decreasing costs?
Submission Instructions:
- Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources. Your initial post is worth 8 points.
- You should respond to at least two of your peers by extending, refuting/correcting, or adding additional nuance to their posts. Your reply posts are worth 2 points (1 point per response.)
- All replies must be constructive and use literature where possible.
- Please post your initial response by 11:59 PM ET Thursday, and comment on the posts of two classmates by 11:59 PM ET Sunday.
- You can expect feedback from the instructor within 48 to 72 hours from the Sunday due date.
Explanation & Answer
Attached. Please let me know if you have any questions or need revisions.
1
ACA outcomes
Student's name
Course
Instructor's name
Date of submission
2
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has many inferences for Public Health
Policy and Practice, and this act became law on March 23, 2010. The ACA makes healthcare
affordable by creating subsidies whereby employers remit money for their employees and private
and public insurance companies. When this law is fully implemented, it will rise the protected to
94% of the American populace, plummeting the uninsured by 31 million people increasing
Medicaid beneficiaries to 15 million Americans. The policy emphasizes preventive care rather
than curative care. The ACA regulations improved how care is delivered. All these strategies are
aimed at people getting treatment before they require expensive treatment. When patients are
declared bankruptcy, the hospital registers a l...