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For your project, analyze the Affordable Care Law in a 9-10 page paper not including the title or references pages. In your analysis you will need to address the following:
- How all three branches of government were involved in its creation, and the issues associated with their involvement.
- The role of public opinion and lobbying groups and their impact on the laws development
- The balance of markets and their participation in the program
- The concepts of equity, efficiency, and effectiveness and their role in the law and its passage
- The initial anticipated effects on cost, quality, and access and whether the projections were correct or incorrect
- The anticipated effects on Medicare and the aging as well as Medicaid and the poor.
Your paper must utilize 4-5 scholarly sources from the CSU-Global Library. You may not use the required readings from the course. You may use sources from reliable public media.
All assignments must be formatted according to CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements.
Review the Capstone Grading Rubric in the Module 7 folder.
Preliminary Deliverables that will be factored into your Capstone Project:
- For Module 1, you will post any questions about the content or requirement of the Capstone assignment to the questions thread. If you have no questions, acknowledge that you have read the assignment by responding to the appropriate discussion thread. (5 points)
- In Module 2 you will submit your assignment option choice for your Capstone Project (5 points)
- In Module 3, you will submit an annotated bibliography for your project. (10 points)
In Module 6, you will submit a first draft of the Capstone Project with a properly APA-formatted bibliographic list of the sources for that project (20 points). First drafts should be 4-5 pages in length for Option 1 or 7-10 presentation slides for Option 2.
Additionally, you will be expected to account for the instructor’s feedback in each draft and the final version of the assignment.
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Affordable Care Law
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Introduction
Healthcare is unquestionably among the top essential necessities essential to the upkeep
of an individual’s health. Despite the United States having outstanding healthcare services, its
access was considerably hard for many citizens of the country. Also, it is rather expensive for the
small income to afford, the care services dispersal is mostly implemented with health insurance
coverage. Theses led to the formation of the Affordable Care Law commonly abbreviated as
ACA to ensure that uncovered individuals get to cover as well as make healthcare affordable for
every citizen of the United States (Rak & Janis, 2013).
Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) was signed into law on 23rd March 2010 by the then
President Obama. The ACA primary functions include creating affordability in the health
insurance sector so that the people would have security in the healthcare. The ACA makes
available subsidies to the consumers that reduce the households’ costs with revenues between the
100% and 400% poverty level according to the federal government. It also aims to develop the
Medicaid coverage for all grownups with income poverty level of below 138% according to the
federal government. Upkeep, the primary medical care distribution, approaches intended to
decrease the health care costs in general (Kocher et al., 2010).
The creation of an Affordable Care Act.
The United States, a policy introduced and implemented by the government passes
through some phases from start-up to the conclusion. These are plan construction, preparation,
approval, enactment, assessment, and outcome. The United States government has three main
branches that took part in the creation of the Affordable care law (ACA). They include the
Executive, Judiciary, and the Legislative.
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Judiciary Branch
The judiciary delivers the minimum ideal opportunity for the expansion of various health
policies. Undoubtedly, the judges are perceived to be unbiased and capable of evaluating
arguments and evidence from a range of sources accurately. Nevertheless, various judges are
protected from public answerability. The Judges helped to bring legal assistances to the bench; in
the creation of the ACA, they may not have the scientific knowledge or ethical thinking. They
have also hardly ever obtained training or education in the health issues (Kocher et al., 2010).
Executive Branch
The executive branch has had great power in the formulation of the ACA. It is made up
of the president, political appointees, and the civil service. The executive branch was both
impartial and answerable. The executive branch had various assistances based on the social and
health and policy. The individuals are working in those supports often are not associated with the
political parties but make expertise and knowledge available (Rak & Janis, 2013). This generates
tremendous opportunities for fair, accountable, and all-inclusive health care policy assessments.
In various means, the executive branch of government contributed the most in the
implementation of the Affordable Care Act that is based on data, evidence, and cognitive.
Legislative branch
The legislature is termed as being neutral and openly answerable; it has the capability to
assemble full data from an extensive collection of unbiased sources; a section of its directive is to
promote and protect the public health, and it has the authority to employ prolonged and planned
procedures in legislating the...