Question

What are the major positives that you see in the PPACA legislation? What are the major negatives that you see in the PPACA legislation? Provide rationale for your answer.

Answer 1

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act i.e. PPACA is also known as the Affordable Care Act established by the president Barack Obama in 2010 in United state, as an effective healthcare reform law to regulate the health insurance organizations and to control the expenditure of community person on the healthcare.

Advantages of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

• It has provided the expansion of the coverage for the patients having the problems of serious chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, cancer and HIV/AIDS, among others.
• It also reduced the overall healthcare cost on long turn basis.
• It had improved access to health insurance and services for so many Americans
• It had assured the easier access of health insurance alternatives.

Disadvantages of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

• The most vulnerable problem is of “individual mandate” which compel the Americans to purchase health insurance plans or other risk paying penalty taxes.
• Increasing cost is the another point
• It has raises the income tax rates
• It had taxed who didn’t purchase the insurance, hence created the bad image in country.

Thus there were some advantages and disadvantages of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act which was set by the Obamacare.