Health Reform

Read our letter to Congress, oppose the scope of ACA and new efforts to reverse consumer protection (PDF)

"Affordable medical law" is the National Health Reform Act promulgated in March 2010. The law aims to reform our private and public health insurance system.

Since it was promulgated, it has helped nearly 20 million people join health insurance. Many of the goals of the law include improving welfare, reducing consumer costs, providing new funding for public health and prevention, supporting our medical and public health labor and infrastructure, system innovation and quality Including promotion and so on.

But ACA is threatened by abolition. The tax law in 2018 abolished the personal authorization ACA started in 2019. It may increase insurance premiums and is expected to result in millions of Americans not taking out insurance.

Millions of people still need insurance. ACA has helped approximately 20 million people join health insurance, but there are about 29 million people who do not have insurance.

Sustainable expenditure: Health care expenditure accounts for 17.9% of GDP in 2015

Lack of precautionary attention: Today, the deaths in one in seven people in the United States are related to chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and cancer, which are largely preventable . In addition, 86% of our medical expenses are used to treat these diseases. However, each medical expenditure spent in the United States is only 3 cents for prevention.

Poor health condition: The US spends much more in medicine than any other developed country, but it ranks 26 out of 43 OECD countries in terms of average life expectancy.

Differences in health: Demographics have inequity in relation to income and coverage, but differences on population basis can not be denied

ACA is an important step forward. To provide cheaper and accessible health insurance to broaden the coverage of Americans, to fund community-based public health and prevention programs, and to support research and key health care tracking , ACA helps to reduce discrepancies and improve access. Preventive medical treatment, improvement of health outcome, reduction of national health expenditure

In March 2009, APHA announced the 2009 health reform agenda. This includes support for a wide range of 95 healthcare reform goals and public program alternatives. Necessity of health, achieve universal health control scope, and improve the health of the people. In 1993, APHA Leaders formulated the following 14 health reform priorities and set the basic standards for public health reform: 71, 97 points, the national health reform policy proposal is at the core of public health problems Teach the public health community to ensure working. request:

In April 2010, former governor Jim Doyle issued Presidential Decree No. 312 and established a medical reform office. The Health and Medical Reform Bureau is responsible for establishing existing national plans, providing transparent access to information, assessing insurance market reforms to prepare for public health reform, formulating plans to seek federal funding, and purchasing health insurance I am in charge of developing a plan for utilizing national health reform for establishing transactions. It's all. The office no longer exists

Medical institutional reform is a concern for people who can not afford medical insurance or medical expenses. Various views on medical system reform: medical perspective, public opinion, the House of Representatives and the Senate. The center for Medicare and Medicaid will be based on the overall performance score gained from various fields, detention 2% of basic medical expenses such as incentive hospitals. - Health care reform is not new to Americans. Americans have fought this fight for a long time. We have reached where we have to change. As long as we are almost irrelevant, as it is different from ours, we need to change some things. Insurance companies already have a huge profit, but Americans can use the world's poorest medical services. Our procedural cost is twice that of other countries.