Question

find an article about changes to Medicare, Medicaid, or the Affordable Care Act. What changes does the article discuss? Provide a link to the article.

Answer 1

ACA permitted states to expand their Medicaid programs. In addition, through ACA Medicaid expansion, incomes thresholds was increased, increasing the number of people eligible for Medicaid via the ACA .

So many changes have been made to the ACA that includes ,

1) elimination of individual mandates- this is th one of the most significant changes,the individual manadate was the requirement under the ACA that people lacking health insurance coverage from their employers and people didn’t qualify for Medicaid or Medicare needed to obtain coverage, usually through the ACA exchanges.

2) permitted to add a work requirement to Medicaid- especially this consider to include all low income adults.

3) termination of ACA cost sharing subsidies- the federal government provided insurance companies that participated in the ACA exchanges payment to assist theses insurance in keeping premium cost lower and to entice them to continue to participate.

4) returns the skinny insurance plan

The affordable care act change to Medicare - the ACA includes provision to improve Medicare benefits by providing free coverage for some preventive benefit, such as

- screening for breast and colorectal cancer

- cardiovascular diseases

_ diabetes and closings the coverage gap.