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Weekly Vocabulary Exercise - Health Care Reform

Complete the worksheet according to the following guidelines:

In the space provided, write each term’s definition as used in health care. You must define the term in your own words; do not simply copy the definition from a textbook.

In the space provided after each term’s definition, provide an explanation that illustrates the importance of the skill, concept, procedure, organization, or tool to which the term refers. In your explanation, you may wish to consider the following:

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How has it influenced health care?

Why is it important to understand the appropriate application of the term or concept?

* Save the completed worksheet as a Microsoft® Word document with your name in the file name.

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Submit the file to your facilitator.

Note. You must define a total of 10 terms involved in health care reform on this worksheet. Therefore, in addition to the terms that have already been provided for you below, finish the additional spaces on the worksheet with terms from your reading or discussion that you were not previously familiar with and had to research.

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Term | Definition (in your own words) | Use the term in a sentence as it applies to the health care industry. |

Affordable Care Act | The Affordable Care Act aims to increase the quality and to make it affordable of health insurance, lower the uninsured rate by expanding for the public and private insurance coverage, and to reduce the costs of healthcare for individuals and the government. On October 1, 2013 marked the opening of the health insurance exchanges where the public can now shop for and enroll in a health insurance plan that will provide coverage as of January 1, 2014. | Almost everyone will be required to have health insurance in 2014 under the Affordable Care Act. |

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 | The ARRA is an economic stimulus package enacted by the...