Healthcare Reform

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Devry University

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Policy Analysis Research Paper Outline

Introduction

1. Issue definition of the Patient Protection and Affordability Care Act

a. Background

2. Criticism of PPACA

3. Repudiation of PPACA Criticisms

a. Effect on Existing Health Insurance Premiums

b. Total Public Cost of Healthcare

4. Argument for PPACA

a. PPACA Improves the Quality of Health Insurance

b. Public-Private Partnership Prevent Bureaucratization of Health Care

c. The Hidden Costs of the Current Healthcare Framework

d. Preventative Care

Conclusion

5. Health Care Reform through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) legislation addresses the nation’s dysfunctional health care system during one of the most challenging economical periods in the nation’s history and is said to be one of the most controversial pieces of legislation. The Act requires that all Americans carry some form of health insurance. The Act aims to prohibit health insurance companies from excluding individuals based on their pre-existing conditions or any type of discrimination based on their health issues. The United States is one of the only industrialized nations in the world to not have universal access to health insurance. Domestically this has been a source of great trouble for the nations unemployed or poor and internationally this is a great embarrassment.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is meant to reduce the number of uninsured Americas, as well as to correct to deficiencies in the nation’s healthcare system. The main component of the Act is in its requirement that all Americans carry some form of health insurance and its accompanying extensions of subsidies to those that cannot afford health insurance and fall below certain income...