Veterans and the Affordable Healthcare Act

The veterans suffer various challenges emanating from their roles they actively in the battle frontlines. They suffer mental problems like the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, anxiety, aggression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. This challenge is further compounded by the lack of mental health providers and the necessities related to the VA benefits. The veterans challenge is not recent but has been around for many decades yet has not been effectively resolved.

The Affordable Care Act was crafted purposefully to help more Americans, especially those of lower economic standards, and expose them to greater accessibility to affordable health insurance. This policy is meant to enhance the quality of health care and health insurance, as it diminishes the health care spending within the USA as well availing more choices for the consumers and putting the insurance more to accountability than before (Obamacare Facts, 2017). These are benefits that the veterans are meant to get from the Affordable Care Act since the aforementioned challenges that they face in terms of health are effectively covered by this policy.

Approximately six years after the enactment of this Affordable Care Act and the policy is beneficial to the American population and the veterans in particular. This policy has increased the number of Americans with health insurance cover and this expansion covers the veterans, meaning... The ACA is also seen to have handled the dysfunctional individual insurance market since now more Americans, who were previously locked out of buying their own insurance due to preexisting conditions or since the cover did not cater for the service they needed are now able to buy the insurance at the same cost as the healthier people, hence benefiting the veterans (Rowner J., 2016). The ACA has also improved the Medicare program since now even those who were already in the program get the preventive the services and annual checkups and those who make us of high prescription drugs get a relief to fill the gap that the 2003 Medicare program would not fill and among these are the veterans who often have to buy fairly expensive medication for their mental and general health wellbeing.
The ACA has proven to be of great benefit to the poor Americans, like majority of the veterans, making them more financially secure than it was before since the ACA ensured their bills have been paid for hence their debt reduced significantly. A paper from National Bureau of Economic Research indicates that those Americans who subscribed for the Medicaid program under the ACA expansion saw their collection go down by $600 to $1,000 and the report indicates that this extra saving was used by this poor population to pay off their debts making them more financially secure than before the ACA expansion.

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