Question

From the Affordable Care Act, identify two (2) official actors and then describe how their motives, conflicts, and interrelationships impacts the policy. Support your answer with examples.

Answer 1

The full name of Affordable Care Act is Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. It's called Obamacare because President Barack Obama signed it into law on March 23, 2010.

Health care in the United States has some serious long term issues:

1. There are millions of uninsured people.
2. People who do have insurance tend to pay more for it than they would in other comparable countries.

The ACA aims to fix these issues by making affordable health available to more Americans. To do this the Act makes some pretty big changes. But although the Act makes some big changes to insurance, these changes phase in overtime instead of happening all at once. A lot of things will also stay the same.

For example: If you already have health insurance that you're happy with, you can keep it under this law. And children under the age of 26 can stay on their parent's plan.

Changes :

1. There's this thing called the individual mandate. Most Americans will be required to have some form of health insurance. To make sure people can find affordable insurance the ACA creates what are called health insurance marketplaces. These are virtual spaces run by the federal government or by your state, where customers can see different plans and prices offered by an insurance provider. So ultimately this might allow you to qualify for lower premiums depending on your income and your family size. And women won't have to pay more for insurance than men either. Insurance will also cover preventative cover so this would be stuff like mammograms, checkups, screening and so on.