This policy analysis of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (hereinafter referred as PPACA) begins by identifying major stakeholders and political implications. Next, it explores PPACA as health policy and reveals new possibilities of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. The issues of ethics, personal privacy, and personal rights are discussed before a brief ‘lessons learned’ review of historical health policies. Finally, this paper closes with a health policy analysis of PPACA –advantages, problems, and implications.
Major Stakeholders
Patients, physicians, employers, and insurers are major stakeholders in PPACA because of the great vested interest they share. According to a 2011 Commonwealth Fund survey, before the PPACA became law, nearly 75 percent of the of the nation’s 57 million baby boomers had been putting off needed care. It also reports that almost half of these seniors had been postponing preventative care. The report also indicates that patients with pre-existing conditions can no longer be denied access to health care.
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Stern (2005) reports California state law by 1979 had sanctioned over 20,000 nonconsensual sterilizations on patients in state-run homes and hospitals. Stern (2005) says Mexican-origin women were coerced into postpartum tubal ligation minutes or hours after undergoing cesarean delivers. The report also indicates that these procedures were continually funded by President Lyndon B. Johnson family planning initiatives of the War on Poverty. This is a brutal reminder that both state and local governments must always strive to protect the rights of the most vulnerable. And party affiliation doesn’t matter, because this horrible tragedy continued under the liberal administration of President
Major Stakeholders
Patients, physicians, employers, and insurers are major stakeholders in PPACA because of the great vested interest they share. According to a 2011 Commonwealth Fund survey, before the PPACA became law, nearly 75 percent of the of the nation’s 57 million baby boomers had been putting off needed care. It also reports that almost half of these seniors had been postponing preventative care. The report also indicates that patients with pre-existing conditions can no longer be denied access to health care.
According to non-profit Physicians Foundation, private-practice …show more content…
Stern (2005) reports California state law by 1979 had sanctioned over 20,000 nonconsensual sterilizations on patients in state-run homes and hospitals. Stern (2005) says Mexican-origin women were coerced into postpartum tubal ligation minutes or hours after undergoing cesarean delivers. The report also indicates that these procedures were continually funded by President Lyndon B. Johnson family planning initiatives of the War on Poverty. This is a brutal reminder that both state and local governments must always strive to protect the rights of the most vulnerable. And party affiliation doesn’t matter, because this horrible tragedy continued under the liberal administration of President