Essays on Federal Poverty Level

Current Health Policy Debate regarding the Affordable Care Act

Introduction The health policy debate regarding ObamaCare focuses on the interest of average U.S citizens. The Affordable Care Act offers protection and benefits to all United States’ citizens regardless of their economic status and social lifestyle. The ACA seeks to reduce the insurance premiums to ensure the majority of average American families are covered. The law seeks to ensure 30 million of 44 million Americans without insurance get access to health coverage (ObamaCare, 2015). The government through the health insurance marketplaces, employers and Medicaid would ensure more Americans obtains health insurance coverage. The health law focuses on low-income Americans ...

Introduction

Healthcare is an integral part of a nation’s well-being. Despite its importance, there has been an increasing trend in the costs of health care. With the current high national debt, health care reimbursement should be part of the equation ("Healthcare Reimbursement | Knowledge Hub | athenahealth", 2016). The policy makers, physicians, and patients are well aware of the steps they need to take to reduce the costs of health care by considering health insurance plans. The insurance policies enable the doctors and other health practitioners to provide quality and efficient health care to the people. Health insurance payers are provided ...

Poverty is a condition that affects too many people around the globe. Those who live in poverty are often disenfranchised and unable to obtain the opportunities to remove themselves from this unfortunate condition. In a world of abundance, where the rich are outrageously wealthy, it makes no sense to see so many go without basic necessities. A common saying, “knowledge is power” is something that still holds true in the world today. Those who understand the world tend to do better in maneuvering around the challenges that exist in the world by seizing and creating opportunities for themselves. One ...

Citizenship and Instruction Program

Experience and Community Need BronxWorks, is a settlement house and multi-service organization with proven track record of leading immigration services since 1998. That year we first collaborated with SEEDCO to launch a series of initiatives that target low-income immigrants with limited English language proficiency. Our organization leveraged resources to provide English as a Second Language (ESL) services and civics classes from the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) to more than 250 participants in 2015 and over 600 participants since its inception. For over 18 years, we have provided citizenship and ESL instruction to New ...

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Notably, the cost of receiving healthcare in the United States has been on the rise in the recent years. It is, therefore, imperative that for the nation to address the problems associated with lack of sufficient healthcare there is the need to have caps on the skyrocketing nature of the healthcare costs (AHIP, 2016). The most notable areas where the rising costs have been detected include soaring costs of medical services, costly pharmaceuticals, unhealthy lifestyles, expensive medical technologies and the fee-for-service payment system whose only focus is on volumes instead of the expected value. It is worth noting that ...

The Affordable Care Act is also known as the Patient Protection. However, its most common name is “Obama care”. This is a federal statute of the United States which was signed into law on 23rd of March 2013 by President Obama. This Act represents one of the most important United States Healthcare System overhaul since Medicaid and Medicare passage in the year 1965 (Tate 22). The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed with three main goals in mind. One, to reduce healthcare costs to both the government and individuals in the country, two, to lower the rate of the ...