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Running Head: AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
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Affordable care act
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AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
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Patel & Rushefsky identify key factors in the affordable care act (ACA), their approach
involves the Kingdon’s multiple streams model where at first they analyze the problem, they
focus on whether the problem exist, the nature of the problem, and the question of government
effort to solve the issues. The problem they analyzed is cost of the affordable care with a lot of
pressure on federal and the state budgets (Patel & Rushefsky, 2014).
The second step is the policies; here policy makers push the policies that they favor with
the aim of the policies to get them adopted. Here they analyze different proposals that have been
put in place in the Affordable Care Act, they include republican/ conservative reforms, health
industry reforms proposals and the Massachusetts model. Lastly, there are the politics where the
impact of different political activities affect the act; they include election, public opinions,
interested parties activities and change of administration, the main analyzed event is the 2008
presidential elections (Patel & Rushefsky, 2014).
Rhetoric and framing played an important role in the debate on ACA, the opponents of
the debate used words like “death panels” (Sarah Palin). It was found out to be a lie and a
desperate move to discredit the ACA, the language did not help in advancing the act but was
only used for political agendas (Hopkins, 2013). The debate was about covering the uninsured in
the United States using the federal health care legislation; the death panel rhetoric did not reflect
the bill at all (Hopkins, 2013). The analogies by proponents like President Obama’s “health
insurance reform” was used as a rhetoric for the “Obama care”, it really transformed the health
care system in the United States for affordability of the poor. The language was used mainly to
emphasize on the act rather than political argument (Kocher et al., 2010).
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References
Hopkins, D. J. (2013). The Exaggerated Life of Death Panels: The Limits of Framing Effects in
the 2009-2012 Health Care Debate. Available at SSRN,2163769.
Patel, K., & Rushefsky, M. E. (2014). Healthcare Politics and Policy in America: 2014.
Routledge.
Kocher, R., Emanuel, E. J., & DeParle, N. A. M. (2010). The Affordable Care Act and the future
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Running Head: THE ACAS EFFECT ON KEY TARGETS
The ACAS effect on key targets
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THE ACA’s EFFECT ON KEY TARGETS
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Health insurance access for both the underinsured and the uninsured comprises of the
young people who have not reached 26 years and can still be covered by their parents ACA as
well as the individuals who can’t’ be under the cover of their parents cover and they have to
obtain a market plan ACA for as less as a hundred dollars or fewer after the deductions are done.
A person who is below thirty years and has no ability to pay for the ACA insurance cover and is
also does not meet the Medicaid characteristics as well as having the “hardship” exclusion, the
individuals have the capability to attain a catastrophic strategy among other underinsured as well
as the uninsured individuals (Chang & Davi...
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