When The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law five years ago, the American people had mixed feelings about the implementation of this policy. Although the Act is intended to provide citizens with a more solidified, comprehensive healthcare system, many people are still dissatisfied with the government’s approach of combatting the healthcare dilemma here in the United States. One of the repercussions that came about from the ACA is the formation of the Health Care Compact (HCC) in February 2011. Multiple states came together to establish an interstate compact, in order to “restore authority and responsibility for health care regulations to the member states, and provide funds to the states to fulfill that responsibility”
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The states feel that the federal government’s attempt to create a law that would unify healthcare throughout that nation is unnecessary. As a solution, member states would prefer to go off of their own agenda by resolving healthcare individually rather than as a whole (Concept 2, Slide 1, Bullet 5). This makes healthcare more patient centered, because the state legislators would be able to implement regulations that correlate with the healthcare issues that are unique to each state. The advocates of the HCC also believe that based on history, states are more effective at regulating policies than the federal government. For example, other systems in our country such as transportation, education, and security run more efficiently at the state level. By taking proximity into consideration, the member states are confident that officials will be more accountable for patients since a policy will be coming from a smaller district. Fundamentally, the advocates of the compact are only targeting the federal government for more power. This power will help the member states make changes as
The states feel that the federal government’s attempt to create a law that would unify healthcare throughout that nation is unnecessary. As a solution, member states would prefer to go off of their own agenda by resolving healthcare individually rather than as a whole (Concept 2, Slide 1, Bullet 5). This makes healthcare more patient centered, because the state legislators would be able to implement regulations that correlate with the healthcare issues that are unique to each state. The advocates of the HCC also believe that based on history, states are more effective at regulating policies than the federal government. For example, other systems in our country such as transportation, education, and security run more efficiently at the state level. By taking proximity into consideration, the member states are confident that officials will be more accountable for patients since a policy will be coming from a smaller district. Fundamentally, the advocates of the compact are only targeting the federal government for more power. This power will help the member states make changes as