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Discuss the impacts of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Include both the realized benefits and also the difficulties experienced by those who are being mandated to participate. Should health insurance be mandatory – why or why not? Explain, and justify your position in a 200-word summary, using facts from peer-reviewed sources to support your explanations and position.

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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is also called as Obamacare. This Act provided rights and protection to the patient. Due to this health coverage became more affordable to the people of United states The main principles and goals of ACA is to provide coverage to people and give affordable and acceptable coverage and to decrease the health care costs Benefits :- → It provided acceptable coverage. → Slows the healthcare costs Ghildren can stay on their parent's insurance - plan upto 26 years → It provided more health benefits → Eliminated lifetime and coverage limits ? coverage provided to adults who does not have children which is a first time. → Coverage for pre-existing conditions → More screenings & preventive and services are covered → Prescribed drugs cost loss due to this Act Difficulties? → Premiums are higher > If people dont have insusuance they are fined. 1 Several new taxes age passed. * The ACA website have techinical problems some people lost corking hours because businesses cut their hours to avoid coverage of employees