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    How does a work requirement improve access to treatment? How can an individual that’s suffering from addiction access treatment to fulfill their work requirement if they’re not allowed to get Medicaid and can’t have that to cover such a treatment? Can you explain how we would address this circular situation where someone doesn’t have coverage, so they can’t get treatment, but they can’t fulfill the work requirement because they need to be in treatment to do that? • Brandt: As part of our…

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    important health care reform act in the history of United States healthcare delivery. One of the most important goals of affordable care act is to improve access to quality and affordable health care. The key important provision of affordable care act to increase access and provide universal health care coverage is health insurance exchanges, which is an online marketplace for insurance, where customers can choose, compare and buy insurance which is suitable for them. The main intention of…

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    to make health care accessible to refugees. Refugees come to US searching for a fresh new start. They work hard to get jobs and sustain their families, but many refugees lack health insurance make it hard for them to get the health care that they need. In 2010, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act. This law expands health insurance options for both, Americans and refugees that are as lawfully present immigrant. Physical and emotional wellness (and this includes access to health care)…

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    article explains that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) did not just change prices of premiums, deductibles, and copayments, but they also set “Ten Essential Benefits” that all insurance providers had to meet. Facts presented shine a brighter light on the ACA and show not all aspects of the plan were bad. The authors describe how insurance worked before the ACA and what the issues were then. I will use this as a reliable source to help tell the story of the Affordable Care Act. This material will…

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    largest source of medical insurance in the United States is Medicaid. This program makes for affordable health care for those who are unable to support of afford the costs of it. Medicaid covers millions of low income individuals. Since it is a government funded and based program drug screening should be necessary to stop welfare fraud and unnecessary funding for drug abusers. Medicaid is a government program that is established to help low income individuals with receiving health care, it…

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    have the opportunity to purchase health care insurance, they still cannot afford it because they are paid low wages. The functionalist perspective believes it is important to maintain a heathy workforce and that people need to be healthy in order to work. It is clear that the organization supports the link between providing the opportunity for health care and the needs of the economy. While the organization is complying with this requirement by offering health care coverage, workers are still…

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    which would transform their practices financially, technologically and clinically to drive better health care for individuals by lowering the costs and improve the methods of distribution and accessibility. By all accounts the initial reason for the ACA was to aid in increasing the availability for health insurance to those individuals that could not afford insurance. The act requires all insurance companies to cover all application within new minimum standards and offer the same rates…

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    Manage care organizations (MCOs) are types of health insurance that involve the creation of provider networks as well as prevention benefits, utilization review for medical necessity and standards of care, and often care management (Kongstvedt, 2013; Medline Plus, 2014). The beginnings of managed care in the United States reaches back to the early twentieth century and continue to thrive, but managed care has not been born from a single force or entity but from many sources seeking differing…

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    includes many new benefits and protections for health care consumers. Some of the major benefits include: elimination the life-time and annual benefit limits, insuring people with pre-existing conditions, free preventive care, and expanding the Medicaid program. ACA requires most Americans to have health insurance coverages. Individuals, families and small business employers can choose and buy health insurance policies through competitive insurance markets, and can receive premium tax credits or…

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    outside of the market place. Employees will be able to buy private insurance and won’t be denied by companies based on sickness just as Obamacarefacts.com phrases. There are many positive outcomes when signing up to Obamacare and there is a low amount of unhappiness with those that are already signed up. All the plans that Obamacare offer have no out-of-pocket cost for annual check-ups, immunization, preventive tests, medical plans, health statuses, and other basic care that many people can…

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