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#12 The ACAs Effect on Key Targets This module’s readings provide analysis and insight into the ACA’s effect on various targets/ beneficiaries, as well as different ways to analyze its impact based on key health/ public health factors. In 3 paragraphs, discuss how the ACA can be assessed on these key variables: ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Access to health insurance/health care for the uninsured and underinsured Impact on financing and cost containment Contributions to broad aspects of health, wellness, and public health Contributions to social equity and social justice What is/will be needed (in terms of policy, financing, and/or politics) to maintain and increase the reach of the ACA and ensure its long-term viability Critically Analyzing the ACA Program Learning Outcomes ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ PLO 1. Promote community capacity, health, and well-being using results from analysis of health problems, issues, strengths, and the needs of diverse populations. PLO 3. Create solutions for public health concerns found in diverse communities by assessing their major environmental, social, behavioral, cultural, political, legal, and regulatory factors. PLO 4. Design public health access and quality strategies/policies for diverse populations. PLO 6. Demonstrate professional and ethical leadership inclusive of strategic planning and decision making skills. Course Learning Outcomes ▪ ▪ ▪ CLO 1. Categorize and analyze ways of analyzing health problems, issues, strengths, and needs of diverse populations to help bring about community capacity, health, and well-being. (ties to PLO 1) CLO 3. Assess proposed solutions for improving public health from an interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary perspective, incorporating evaluation of various factors. (ties to PLO 3) CLO 4. Evaluate policies and proposed solutions for improving health and public health with an eye toward programs to serve and benefit diverse populations. (ties to PLO 4) ▪ CLO 6. Evaluate and employ ethical/ bioethical, cultural, and moral issues and solutions related to public health policy and decision making. (ties to PLO 6) Module Learning Outcomes ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ MLO 2. Assess and articulate broad approaches and theories associated with public policy in the context of healthcare policy. (ties to CLO 1) MLO 3. Evaluate different ways of analyzing public policy in a healthcare context via application of these models. (ties to CLO 1) MLO 9. Assess ACA’s impact on key targets and beneficiaries in terms of various evaluative factors: access to health care; equity and inclusion; quality of care and health outcomes; elimination or addition of health disparities, etc. (ties to CLO 3) MLO 11. Evaluate and critique health disparities and cultural competency in the context of the key targets and beneficiaries of the Affordable Care Act and other health/public health programs. (ties to CLO 4) MLO 12. Identify and assess current and future challenges to ACA implementation in terms of expanding access to the uninsured and the law’s financial/market sustainability. (ties to CLO 4) MLO 15. Assess and characterize key ethical/bioethics issues and questions in public policymaking. (ties to CLO 6) MLO 16. Characterize and differentiate key ethical codes and policies in health (e.g., American Public Health Association, etc.) and apply to them to public policymaking. (ties to CLO 6) References ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Alonzo-Zaldizar, R. (2012, March 28). Spin meter: Now they’re all calling it “Obamacare.” CSN News. Bui, Q., & Sanger-Katz, M. (2015, Oct. 30). We mapped the uninsured. You’ll notice a pattern. New York Times. Currie, J., & Schwandt, H. (2016, April). Inequality: The good news from a county-level approach. NBER Working Paper 22199, JEL No. J11. Evans, M. (2016, March 5). The Affordable Care Act isn’t wiping out unpaid hospital bills. Modern Healthcare. McMorrow, S., & Holohan, J. (2016, June). The widespread slowdown in health spending growth implications for future spending projections and the cost of the Affordable Care Act, an update. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation & Urban Institute. Newkirk, V. (2016, June 15). The less Affordable Care Act? The Atlantic. ▪ ▪ ▪ Quealy, K., & Singer-Katz, M. (2014, Oct. 29). Obama’s health law: Who was helped most? New York Times. Rubin, J., et al. (2016). Are better health outcomes related to social expenditure? RAND Institute. Young, J. (May 4, 2016). More red states embrace Obamacare, just as long as you don’t call it that. Huffington Post.
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The access to health insurance for the uninsured and underinsured includes young
individuals who can be covered by their parent’s insurance plan until they reach the age of 26,
and those who cannot be covered by their parents cover can get a market plan for 100 dollars or
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