Question

Discuss why the ACA has been repealed and how the proposed health care legislation is similar to the ACA and how it is different than the ACA.

Answer 1

The primary aims of ACA (affordable care act) include establishing near-universal coverage and shared responsibility, improving the affordability and quality of healthcare insurance coverage, enhancing the quality and efficacy of healthcare services while minimizing the wasteful spending, and to strengthen primary health-care access particularly to medically underserved populations.

The ACA allowed the insurance coverage to people with pre-existing conditions, and created new protections for elderly and disable people against coverage policies. Overall, efforts of ACA are directed to reframe the economic association between Americans and the health-care system, thereby to stem the health insurance crisis.

However, the ACA was opposed by the Republicans and argued that it reduces the number of jobs in the healthcare sector and also described it as an unwarranted intrusion into the private business affairs. In reality, ACA increased the jobs in the health sector by 9%.   The ACA has been replaced with “American Health Care Act.”

Similar to the ACA, AHCA also includes covering the pre-existing conditions in the health insurance, adult, and college-aged children are allowed to remain on parents plan till the age of 26 years, no lifetime cap will the there and the tax credits are applicable to the insurance buyers.

Differences between the ACA, and AHCA are, the individual and employer mandate penalties will be no longer applicable, the Medicaid expansions will be stopped, restricted abortion funding, and repealing taxes on the health care law.