Health care reform of 2010, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is to assist the low-income households to obtain health care at an affordable cost. Once the Care Act was set up the health care in America changed immensely for individuals with yearly increases on both cost and co-payments, time allowed for examinations and waiting room times have increased.
Eligibility for the Care Act program consists of two major criteria, the household income and if the individual’s workplace provides health insurance. An employed individual may qualify for the income guidelines yet if the workplace offers insurance than the individual is ineligible. Workplaces have set costs for health care quoted by health care providers based on the size of the …show more content…
Major health care providers have re-evaluated and are deciding to leave the exchange due to reimbursement which can stop the growth of the exchange. This can affect the health of patients in a negative outcome if doctors affiliated with the health care providers are no longer available to use. Patients’ preference is to stay with the doctor whom a patient-doctor relationship has been established over the years. The personal relation-ship between a doctor and patient plays a very important role for honest communication of ones’ health …show more content…
If a health exchange was designed to help with a country’s cost of health care than the program should be an option for everyone not just the low-income. There are individuals who are working or retired and still incapable to keep up with the rising costs of health care premiums. Patients’ health care will decline resulting from constant doctor changes due to doctors opting out of the exchange or not available in the tier of care people are capable of paying. The Care Act was not designed to accommodate the true needs of patients with both money and the patient-doctor relationships that have been established. The initial reasoning of helping the low-income with health care is a good idea, unfortunately on some level the program is another reason for someone to stay in the same economic status and not improve their position, just like the welfare
Eligibility for the Care Act program consists of two major criteria, the household income and if the individual’s workplace provides health insurance. An employed individual may qualify for the income guidelines yet if the workplace offers insurance than the individual is ineligible. Workplaces have set costs for health care quoted by health care providers based on the size of the …show more content…
Major health care providers have re-evaluated and are deciding to leave the exchange due to reimbursement which can stop the growth of the exchange. This can affect the health of patients in a negative outcome if doctors affiliated with the health care providers are no longer available to use. Patients’ preference is to stay with the doctor whom a patient-doctor relationship has been established over the years. The personal relation-ship between a doctor and patient plays a very important role for honest communication of ones’ health …show more content…
If a health exchange was designed to help with a country’s cost of health care than the program should be an option for everyone not just the low-income. There are individuals who are working or retired and still incapable to keep up with the rising costs of health care premiums. Patients’ health care will decline resulting from constant doctor changes due to doctors opting out of the exchange or not available in the tier of care people are capable of paying. The Care Act was not designed to accommodate the true needs of patients with both money and the patient-doctor relationships that have been established. The initial reasoning of helping the low-income with health care is a good idea, unfortunately on some level the program is another reason for someone to stay in the same economic status and not improve their position, just like the welfare