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

#. Affordable Care Act (ACA)

a law consisting of two pieces of legislation that are collectively referred to as "Healthcare Reform" or "Obamacare"

The individual laws that make up the ACA :-

1. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), enacted on March 23, 2010

2. The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (HCERA), enacted on March 30, 2010

Main functions of ACA :-

- increase benefits and lower costs for consumers

- provide new funding for public health and prevention

- bolster health care and public health workforce and infrastructure

- foster innovation and quality in our system

- ends preexisting condition exclusions for children

- keeps young adults covered

- ends arbitrary withdrawals of insurance coverage

- guarantees the patient's right to appeal

- ends lifetime limits on Coverage

- reviews premium increases

- helps patients get the most from their premium dollars

- covers preventive care at no cost to patients

- protects the patient's choice of doctors

- removes insurance company barriers to emergency services

#. The ACA included provisions to improve Medicare benefits by providing free coverage for some preventive benefits, such as screenings for breast and colorectal cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes, and closing the coverage gap etc .

#. Three main ACA changes lead to Medicaid :-

Medicaid expansion to low-income adults.

Modernized, simpler enrollment processes.

Increased outreach and enrollment efforts.