Question

the affordable healthcare act What is the role of government in this policy?

Answer 1

Role of government in affordable health care act

Our nation has invested a tremendous amount to learn how to keep people healthy and how to restore health when disease, injury, or illness accurse (Knickman & Kovner, 2015, p. 4). However, I believe providing a high quality of health care is a privilege for our government and having access to it is a right for every one of us.

  The role of the government in healthcare would be addressing these challenges like improving quality care, improving access and coverage, slowing the growth of health care expenditures, encouraging healthy behaviors, improving the public health systems, and addressing inequalities in access, and outcomes. Most importantly, the government should enhance more towards to promote preventive care through public health care systems rather than post diagnosed care. I also think that our government should focus on improving coordination, transparency, and accountability of medical care. As the most hospital is doing multidisciplinary rounding, which promotes stronger patient-centered care. The U.S. government should be enhanced to develop a system which is coordinated care or connected care for all stakeholders regardless of physician’s specialties in community level. For our government, it is also important that how the stakeholders feel the quality of the care which their community’s facilities and physicians provided and their experiences should be included when the government makes decisions.

The government has through its initiation, enacted laws, policies, rules, and regulations, for health care system to ensure its citizenry has access to quality affordable healthcare. The federal, States and even local Government has been engaged in these. According to Knickman & Kovner (2015) “Government is deeply entrenched in every aspect of the U.S healthcare system.” The Federal Government provides funding to States who in turn administer benefits to the citizenry who are underserved and underinsured such as Medicare Medicaid. The government also offers all kinds of tax incentives to employers to cover the cost of healthcare for their employees. The State, on the other hand, runs and administers received funds, as already stated, using various Agencies and Managed Care Organization (MCOs) to the populace. Both federal and state governments provide guidelines and regulations as to how services are rendered and paid for. Example of such laws is the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) which mandated that all Americans have some form of health insurance or else be penalized at the end of the year during tax return. (Knickman & Kovner 2015. P. 29). The government has played and will continue to play a key role in the industry by expanding eligibility criteria for public insurance. The government also enforces the rule on the insurance companies to control certain excesses of insurance practice such as denying coverage for individuals with preexisting conditions.