The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Introduction In 2010, the patient protection and parity medical law was enforced. This article summarizes the three ACA terms and analyzes the financial implications these terms may have on the healthcare industry and the US economy. These three regulations are changes in public programs, changes in taxes related to financing health insurance or health system reforms, and changes in private insurance. Expansion of Public Programs According to "Affordable Medical Law", it provides an "expanded public plan" to change the Medicaid program and CHIP.

More than two years ago, patient protection and parity medical law (H.R. 3590) was passed by the US Senate in 60-39 votes. According to "Analysis of Patient Protection and Parity Medical Law" (2010) based on the COMPARE micro simulation model used in RAND, this model had several important improvements to HR 3590 change between 2010 and 2019 There will be. By 2019, this bill will reduce the uninsured amount by 53% from the current forecast to 25 million. According to H. R. 3590, Employer Guarantee Insurance (ESI) and Medicaid also covers an additional 4 million children.

In 2010, the Obama administration successfully passed an affordable medical law (ACA). This comprehensive legislation includes two separate bills: Patient Protection and Peace Pricing Medical Law and 2010 Health Care and Education Settlement Act. Both are trying to achieve two overall goals. Increasing the number of healthcare workers subscribing to health insurance and affecting consumer and federal costs. In 2013, about a year before the ACA is fully effective, about 15% of the population is not covered by insurance, so 32 million people in the US can not get insurance for various reasons did. ACA entered into force in January 2014, and the proportion of uninsured Americans has declined to 10.9% as of the end of 2016. The US Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that ACA will help reduce the national deficit by $ 100 billion over the next decade.