Consider what you have learned about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), the uninsured population, health disparities, and programs and policies intended to improve quality of care and health outcomes, while reducing healthcare expenditure. Summarize your thoughts on the future of healthcare given the provisions of the ACA—changes to Medicare and Medicaid, the individual mandate, etc., and whether or not current efforts are sufficient to reduce disparities in healthcare and improve healthcare outcomes.
Evaluate the impact that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has and will have on the uninsured population in the U.S.
Discuss current successes and failures of this act.
Discuss implications of this act’s successes and failures.
Explain specific policy changes that could be made to the ACA to improve its impact on overall health outcomes in the U.S.
Resources:
Blumenthal, D., & Collins, S. R. (2014, September 26). Assessing the Affordable
Care Act: The record to date. Retrieved from http://www.common
wealthfund.org/publications/blog/2014/sep/assessing-the-affordable-
care-act.
Buettgens, M., & Hall, M. A. (2015, March 11). Who will be uninsured after
health insurance reform? Retrieved from http://www.rwjf.org/
en/library/research/2011/03/who-will-be-uninsured-after-health-
insurance-reform-.html.
Kaiser Family Foundation. (2015). Uninsured. Retrieved from http://kff.org/
uninsured/.
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Submission details:
Assignment should be addressed in an 8- to 10-page document.
Provide references in APA format
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Consider what you have learned about the Patient Protection and
1. Consider what you have learned about the Patient Protection
and Affordable Care Act (ACA), the uninsured population,
health disparities, and programs and policies intended to
improve quality of care and health outcomes, while reducing
healthcare expenditure. Summarize your thoughts on the future
of healthcare given the provisions of the ACA—changes to
Medicare and Medicaid, the individual mandate, etc., and
whether or not current efforts are sufficient to reduce disparities
in healthcare and improve healthcare outcomes.
Evaluate the impact that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has and
will have on the uninsured population in the U.S.
Discuss current successes and failures of this act.
Discuss implications of this act’s successes and failures.
Explain specific policy changes that could be made to the ACA
to improve its impact on overall health outcomes in the U.S.
Resources:
Blumenthal, D., & Collins, S. R. (2014, September 26).
Assessing the Affordable
Care Act: The record to date. Retrieved from
http://www.common
wealthfund.org/publications/blog/2014/sep/assessing-
the-affordable-
2. care-act.
Buettgens, M., & Hall, M. A. (2015, March 11). Who will be
uninsured after
health insurance reform? Retrieved from
http://www.rwjf.org/
en/library/research/2011/03/who-will-be-uninsured-
after-health-
insurance-reform-.html.
Kaiser Family Foundation. (2015). Uninsured. Retrieved from
http://kff.org/
uninsured/.
Cite sources in the work and provide references for the
citations in APA format.
Submission details:
Assignment should be addressed in an 8- to 10-page document.
Provide references in APA format
