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Identify and analyze the main socioeconomic barriers involving the Affordable Care Act and how that impact patients, providers and insurance companies. What challenges can be faced if the ACA is reformed.
Affordable care act:-
This act has been started in March 2010. Goals of the act is to protect patient and to give medication to poor at lower prices, etc.
* Patients:-This helps the poor people to have health checkup in less cost for poor people also. So even very poor people can also have health checkup to prevent and cure any illness. This saved many thousands of people lives in america.
* Providers:- Health cars providers like doctors, nurses, etc work together with ACA to improve the quality of heath checkup. They not get the salary according to the patient volume they treated but they will got accordung the quality of care given to patients.
* Insurance companies:- ACA created health insurance exchanges and does not allow insurance companies to charge more for products because of the agreement which already exists.
Problems that occurs due to ACA reformation:-
* It should pay more tax for obamacare which makes them loss.
* They should also pay more for insurance companies because they charge more now because of use of medicines were increased,etc.
This are 2 important problems which raises if tge ACA reforms