The Affordable Care Act, or Obama Care, is a law signed and passed in 2010 by President Barack Obama. It was passed because it is supposed to help with the cost, accessibility, and overall quality of health care insurance like Medicaid, Medicare, CHIP, etc. However, anyone who doesn't have insurance by 2014 will have to pay a fee and are all but being told that they have to have to choose from a private insurance with higher prices. ("ObamaCare Explained: An Explanation of ObamaCare")
Initially, the Affordable Care Act was meant to help with the cost of insurance. Obama said that it was meant to spare people from “double-digit premium" that seem to increase ever year. Because of the attempt to cut costs, insurance companies like BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois and Minnesota are asking anywhere from 29-51% increase in rates. (Pipes) In a recent article written by Chris Conover in Forbes, he says that it has been found by experts working for Medicare’s actuary have reported that in its first 10 years, Obamacare will boost health spending by …show more content…
(Sebelius) But now, doctors are being undermined because, instead of the quality of care they give, they are being paid by how they measure up to other physicians. Under the Affordable Care Act, even if every physician achieved excellent quality of care, some would, by necessity, have their pay cut on top of cuts already in the payment itself. Studies have shown that a system like this that diminishes the work and effort of a doctor, who I might add who has probably spent 8+ years in college, and the doctor-patient relationship becomes strained because of the Affordable Care Act punishing physicians for patient outcomes that are, more times than not, out of their control. There's also the chance that quality measures become outdated and fail to represent best practices.
Initially, the Affordable Care Act was meant to help with the cost of insurance. Obama said that it was meant to spare people from “double-digit premium" that seem to increase ever year. Because of the attempt to cut costs, insurance companies like BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois and Minnesota are asking anywhere from 29-51% increase in rates. (Pipes) In a recent article written by Chris Conover in Forbes, he says that it has been found by experts working for Medicare’s actuary have reported that in its first 10 years, Obamacare will boost health spending by …show more content…
(Sebelius) But now, doctors are being undermined because, instead of the quality of care they give, they are being paid by how they measure up to other physicians. Under the Affordable Care Act, even if every physician achieved excellent quality of care, some would, by necessity, have their pay cut on top of cuts already in the payment itself. Studies have shown that a system like this that diminishes the work and effort of a doctor, who I might add who has probably spent 8+ years in college, and the doctor-patient relationship becomes strained because of the Affordable Care Act punishing physicians for patient outcomes that are, more times than not, out of their control. There's also the chance that quality measures become outdated and fail to represent best practices.