Question

Please research and review the Affordable Care Act and Patient Protection Act. Upon completion of your research and review, provide an analysis: What is the key element of each Act? Provide a complete and detailed description of the key elements. Provide the section of the Act the key elements is located in.

Answer 1

The Patient protection and Affordable Care Act, also the Affordable Care Act or colloquially known as Obamacare,is a United States federal Statute enacted by the 111th United State Congress and signed into law by President Barak Obama on March 23,2010.Together with the Health care and Education Reconcilliation Act of 2010 amendment,it represents the US healthcare system's most significant regulatory overhaul and expansion of coverage since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in1965.

Key elements of the Affordable Care Act.

* INCREASIN ACCESS TO AFFORDBLE CARE

• Providing access to Insurance for Uninsured Americans with pre-existing conditions.
• Extending coverage for young adults.
• Expanding coverage forearly retirees.
• Rebuilding the primary care workforce.
• Holding insurance companies Accountable for unreasonable rate hikes
• Allowing states to cover more people on medicaid.
• Increasing payments for rural health providers.Strengthening community health centres.

Key Elements of Patient Protection Act.

This act provides numerous rights and protections that make them health coverage more fair and easy to understand,along wit subsides(through "premium tax credits" and "cost-sharingreductions").