Question

Healthcare Policy in the United States has been largely consumed over almost the past decade by Affordable Care Act. What were the various roles of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches in the initial implementation of the ACA? What has been the recent debate about the ACA and what legislative changes have been made to it?

Answer 1

Affordable care act also called as Patient Protection and Affordable care act (PPCA) or health care reforms.

The 3 main goal of it are

• Make affordable health care available for all
• Expand Medicaid program,who has low income
• Supporting innovative medical care and bringing down cost.

The roles are as following

• Improving Medicaid expansion for low income people
• Market places to be brought high by new health insurance plan
• Market reforms to be brought high
• To provide employer sponcered group insurance
• To provide preventive care and screening for women without any additional costs

The recent debate like fee for service has to be replaced because this may disrupt the quality of services patients receive.

It has dominated health care policy act

Renewing funding for CHIP covering 9 million children