The trend in Nursing that I chose to write about is diabetes impact on healthcare. I’m very passionate about the subject because I was diagnosed with being pre-diabetic this summer. I know that if I don’t make lifestyle changes, my being pre-diabetic will progress to the chronic condition of being diabetic. In my essay, I will be addressing the issue of non-compliancy through lack of access to medications, food insecurity and the current policies put in place to help diabetics get the treatment that they need. I will also be discussing what we can do to transform the policies to make it better for the patients that suffer with this condition.
For instance “there are 1 and 4 people that have diabetes and don’t know that they have it”.(ww.cdc.gov) Diabetes is …show more content…
Healthcare coverage was only guaranteed for people 65 and older, leaving the many Americans that fell below 138% of the federal poverty rate uninsured. Since the Affordable Care Act, diabetics can no longer be denied coverage because diabetes care is now considered “essential health benefits,” meaning that hospitalizations, prescription drugs, preventive services and chronic disease management must be covered in all new individual and small group plans, including all plans sold in the new Health Insurance Marketplace.”(diabeteseducator.org) Before the Affordable Care Act, patients that were diabetic could get coverage at a higher cost, could be dropped as medical conditions increased or a limit would be put on what medical expenses insurance companies would reimburse. Under the Affordable Care Act, cannot set a lifetime limit on how much they pay out for medical services during a given year. Great strides have been made to combat the growing problem of the diabetes epidemic. The Affordable Care Act is not the end all to the problems facing diabetics; rather it’s just the
For instance “there are 1 and 4 people that have diabetes and don’t know that they have it”.(ww.cdc.gov) Diabetes is …show more content…
Healthcare coverage was only guaranteed for people 65 and older, leaving the many Americans that fell below 138% of the federal poverty rate uninsured. Since the Affordable Care Act, diabetics can no longer be denied coverage because diabetes care is now considered “essential health benefits,” meaning that hospitalizations, prescription drugs, preventive services and chronic disease management must be covered in all new individual and small group plans, including all plans sold in the new Health Insurance Marketplace.”(diabeteseducator.org) Before the Affordable Care Act, patients that were diabetic could get coverage at a higher cost, could be dropped as medical conditions increased or a limit would be put on what medical expenses insurance companies would reimburse. Under the Affordable Care Act, cannot set a lifetime limit on how much they pay out for medical services during a given year. Great strides have been made to combat the growing problem of the diabetes epidemic. The Affordable Care Act is not the end all to the problems facing diabetics; rather it’s just the