Want To Know More About Affordable Care Act – Must Read Resources

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Medicaid.  (n.d.). Affordable Care Act. Retrieved from <https://www.medicaid.gov/affordable-care-act/index.html>

This sit gives an overview of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). It gives more information specific aspects addressed by the ACA policy including the kind of reforms it brings, and its influence in Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The site gives information on who are eligibility, who or how it is financed, benefits it bring to American peoples, and premium paid by those seeking individual coverage.

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Rosenbaum, S. (2011). The patient protection and affordable care act: Implications for public health policy and practice. Public Health Rep, 126(1), 130-135. Retrieved from <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3001814/>

This journal article gives a review of the ACA amendment and anticipated changes when the policy would be implemented fully as from 2014. The article gives an overview of this act and its chief elements. It also gives detailed information on reforms made in the health insurance coverage and how the ACA has improved health-care quality, accountability and efficiency. The article also discusses the consequences the policy has on public health practice and policy.

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Obama, B. (2016). United States health care reform progress to date and next steps. JAMA, 316(5), 525-532.

The article provides a brief history of what transpired from the time President Obama got into the office for the first time to kind of achievements that had been recorded by the time he was leaving the office as two-term president of the U.S. The article give progress experienced after full implementation of ACA in 2014 especially in terms of coverage and what policy makers may need to do in the future to enhance health care reforms.

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Hansler, J. (2017, Sep 13). A short American history: from Medicare to Obamacare to …. Berniecare? CNN Politics. Retrieved from <https://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/13/politics/history-of-us-health-care/index.html>

This news report traces the history of Affordable Care Act from the day it was introduced in the American Congress in 1960s to the enactment of Obamacare and other changes or development that have taken place after its enactment. The article narrates the introduction of Medicare for all bill in early 1960, enactment of Social Security Amendments by President Lyndon in 1965, failed attempt to reform health care bill during President Bill Clinton’s time, the development noted during President George W. Bush time and changes attained during President Obama’s time.

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Sanger-Katz, M. (2017, Feb 5). Grading Obamacare: Successes, failures and ‘incompletes.’ The New York Times. Retrieved from <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/05/upshot/grading-obamacare-successes-failures-and-incompletes.html>

This article analyses Affordable Care Act commonly known as Obamacare, highlighting its success and failures and the future anticipations. The analysis is clearly based on changes that Obamacare have introduced in the healthcare sectors and in the social and economic life of special groups in the country and how it has affected others in the country.

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Editorial Board. (2013, 13 Dec). Design flaws in the affordable care act. The Washington Post. Retrieved from <https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/design-flaws-in-the-affordable-care-act/2013/12/13/905571ce-636e-11e3-aa81-e1dab1360323_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4025df587524>

This article cites Affordable Care Act design flaw. The flaw is said to be the cause of the gap between the anticipated level of enrollment and the current level of enrollment. This article will help in understand why the ACA is highly flawed by most of its critics

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Supplement Readings

Cannan, J. (2013). A legislative history of the affordable care act: How legislative procedure shapes legislative history. Law Library Journal, 105(1), 131-173. Retrieved from <http://liblog.law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/A-Legis-Hist-of-ACA-How-Legis-Proced-Shapes-Legis-Hist-Spring-2013.pdf>

This journal article gives detailed history of the Affordable Care Act during the Obama era. The article provide detailed information regarding how the bill was reintroduced in the congress, how it was treated in the two houses and how reconciliation was reached to be able to ensure the bill passed despite having been rejected in the past. The article also covers information on the court cases that have been experienced regarding this act since it was enacted in 2010 by President Obama.

National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius567 U.S. 519 (2012). Retrieved from <https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/567/519/>

This is a landmark case where the Supreme Court of the United States made a decision in which it upheld the power of Congress to enact the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act provision. The court on this case upheld personal mandate to purchase health insurance as a congress taxing power constitutional exercise.

The White House. (2016, March 02). Fact sheet: The affordable care act: Healthy communities six years later. Retrieved from <https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/02/fact-sheet-affordable-care-act-healthy-communities-six-years-later>

This article gives overview of what has been achieved or changes recorded since the enactment of Affordable Care Act by the president Barack Obama on 23rd March 2010 to 2nd March 2016. The article gives statistics of number of individuals enrolled to various ACA programs in the country.

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