The Affordable Care Act of (ACA) was an all-encompassing health care improvement law. ACA was validated and endorsed as a U.S law in March 2010. ACA was a project under president Obama’s governance. In fact, ACA is also known as the Obamacare or Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). When ACA was introduced, it had three main objectives (Aaron, 2012). To start with, ACA was supposed to make health insurance affordable to more U.S citizens and reduce their subsidiaries in order to reduce their general domestic costs with incomes varying between the U.S national standard poverty level of 100% and 400% (Rosenbaum, 2011). Secondly, ACA was purposed to increase the medical aid program and enable it to insure all U.S adult citizens with a gross income 138% lower than the country’s national standard poverty level (Aaron, 2012). Lastly, ACA was meant to support the forthcoming innovative medical care delivery strategies intended to reduce the overall health care costs. Even though the law was not perfect, it made tremendous changes to the entire U.S health...
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Aaron, H. (2012). The Affordable Care Act Does Control Health Care Costs. Retrieved from https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/the-affordable-care-act-does-control-health-care-costs/ [Accessed on 6/06/2018]
Rosenbaum, S. (2011). The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: implications for public health policy and practice. Public health reports, 126(1), 130-135. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3001814/ [Accessed on 6/06/2018]
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