The Affordable Care Act touches the lives of most Americans. In fact, nearly 21 million will be at risk if Obamacare is struck down, and may even lose health insurance completely if the law is ruled unconstitutional. This webinar will discuss what the outcome may be if ACA is repealed.
Did you have time to read the 1,990 page healthcare bill that was recently passed through Congress? Have you since wondered about the impact that massive bill will have on the average American, health insurance providers, business owners and YOU? If yes, then join the Young Professionals of Chicago as we host a panel of diverse health care professionals that will be discussing current healthcare reform and taking questions on the impact of the United States' new healthcare policy. The distinguished panelists will also provide some insight and clarity into what this massive bill means for individuals like you. There will also be an opportunity for open networking with other young professionals before and after the discussion.
goes thru new healthcare law (PPACA) by section. all information is correct and factual to best of my research. gives great background education on economics of healthcare and covers how massachusetts and europe/canada are doing w/ "reforms". I am against this law, but most information is just plain fact.
http://www.symbiusmedical.com/ - This article can help you navigate the often misunderstood new world of healthcare - the Affordable Care Act. As of 2014 non-grandfathered individual and small group health plans must provide the essential health benefits (EHBs). EHBs will include items & services in 10 statutory benefit categories. Individuals are able to shop for insurance coverage on state health insurance exchanges, called “marketplaces.” The article is written by Symbius Medical Corporate Compliance Manager, Natalie Franklin.
The Affordable Care Act touches the lives of most Americans. In fact, nearly 21 million will be at risk if Obamacare is struck down, and may even lose health insurance completely if the law is ruled unconstitutional. This webinar will discuss what the outcome may be if ACA is repealed.
Did you have time to read the 1,990 page healthcare bill that was recently passed through Congress? Have you since wondered about the impact that massive bill will have on the average American, health insurance providers, business owners and YOU? If yes, then join the Young Professionals of Chicago as we host a panel of diverse health care professionals that will be discussing current healthcare reform and taking questions on the impact of the United States' new healthcare policy. The distinguished panelists will also provide some insight and clarity into what this massive bill means for individuals like you. There will also be an opportunity for open networking with other young professionals before and after the discussion.
goes thru new healthcare law (PPACA) by section. all information is correct and factual to best of my research. gives great background education on economics of healthcare and covers how massachusetts and europe/canada are doing w/ "reforms". I am against this law, but most information is just plain fact.
http://www.symbiusmedical.com/ - This article can help you navigate the often misunderstood new world of healthcare - the Affordable Care Act. As of 2014 non-grandfathered individual and small group health plans must provide the essential health benefits (EHBs). EHBs will include items & services in 10 statutory benefit categories. Individuals are able to shop for insurance coverage on state health insurance exchanges, called “marketplaces.” The article is written by Symbius Medical Corporate Compliance Manager, Natalie Franklin.
Obamacare had a botched roll-out but that will eventually be fixed. The real issue is the fact that we have turned over one of the world's greatest health care systems to the federal government too run under a vast and complex set of rules and regulations. Watch your pocketbook!! There are subsidies in Obamacare that will transfer money from those earning $46,000 individually ($94,000 - family of four) to those earning less AND from young healthy citizens to the older people who are more likely to incur significant health care costs.
Health Savings Accounts are authorized by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that allow individuals and families to take charge of their health care services and expenses AND maintain a direct and personal relationship with your physicians. Check into that part of Obamacare!
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Toulmin Argument Essay
There has always been a rise in cost of the health care thus various individuals are trying to understand the coverage options for their health coverage which has led them to search for various health care packages to save money. Amongst the controversial alternative that will enable citizens to safe money is the single payer health care. In this health package, citizens pays taxes for various health care services which are being issued by the government to every gentleman, lady as well as the child. For some times now, this system has been used in United States. Medicare, Medicaid, local state government benefits, and federal employees’ benefits all use single funds, which use private delivery.
Single-payer health care system services is a framework in which the state, instead of private organizations, are responsible for all insurance bills. This system of health contract for medicinal services administrating from private associations and to public responsibility enhanced by state governments. Single payer enables the patients to choose their physicians and continue to seem them even if their financial status or jobs changes. There is no other health care services that can assure this. There is continuity of nurses and doctors, who have got to know the care about their patients, and also is critical to quality. These health care services are accessible and affordable to all. The single payer uses the savings from the administrative wastes which is approximately over $350 billion in a year for funding the coverage for all uninsured as well as improving the benefits to the insured Americans. Heath care which is delayed or denied due to cost or increasingly issues of the insurers refusing to coverage.
There has always been a rise in cost of the health care thus various individuals are trying to understand the coverage options for their health coverage which has led them to search for various health care packages so as to save money. Amongst the controversial alternative that will enable citizens to save money is the single payer health care. In this health package, citizens pays taxes for various health care services which are being issued by the government.
The Affordable Care Act gives Americans better health conditions by giving incentives and security set up of medical coverage changes that will, Expand scope, Hold insurance agencies responsible, Guarantee decision making, Lower services costs and Enhance the nature manning all Americans. The Affordable Care Act really alludes to two separate bills of enactment both by president Obamas administration. Both the bills grow Medicaid scope to a great many low-salary Americans and makes various upgrades to both Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program.
Many nations in the world have single-payer health insurance programs. In Switzerland it is believed that the idea that health-care services should be paid for a.
Is it possible to provide health care without rationing In 1948 eve.pdfarchiesgallery
Is it possible to provide health care without rationing? In 1948 every household in Britain
received a leaflet stating that the new National Health Service would \"provide you with all
medical, dental and nursing care. Everyone - rich or poor, man, woman, or child - can use it or
any part of it. There are no charges, except for a few special items.\"
c) What system of rationing would you recommend?
Solution
Now a days it is not possible to provide health care without rationing. Healthcare rationing is
used by health insurers, the government and individuals to save money. Some would even argue
healthcare rationing supports the greater good. Citing with the text for the answer of the question
is mentioned below :-
You have advanced kidney cancer. It will kill you, probably in the next year or two. A drug
called Sutent slows the spread of the cancer and may give you an extra six months, but at a cost
of $54,000. Is a few more months worth that much.
If you can afford it, you probably would pay that much, or more, to live longer, even if your
quality of life wasn’t going to be good. But suppose it’s not you with the cancer but a stranger
covered by your health-insurance fund. If the insurer provides this man — and everyone else like
him — with Sutent, your premiums will increase. Do you still think the drug is a good value?
Suppose the treatment cost a million dollars. Would it be worth it then? Ten million? Is there any
limit to how much you would want your insurer to pay for a drug that adds six months to
someone’s life? If there is any point at which you say, “No, an extra six months isn’t worth that
much,” then you think that health care should be rationed.
In the current U.S. debate over health care reform, “rationing” has become a dirty word. Meeting
last month with five governors, President Obama urged them to avoid using the term, apparently
for fear of evoking the hostile response that sank the Clintons’ attempt to achieve reform. In a
Wall Street Journal op-ed published at the end of last year with the headline “Obama Will Ration
Your Health Care,” Sally Pipes, C.E.O. of the conservative Pacific Research Institute, described
how in Britain the national health service does not pay for drugs that are regarded as not offering
good value for money, and added, “Americans will not put up with such limits, nor will our
elected representatives.” And the Democratic chair of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator
Max Baucus, told CNSNews in April, “There is no rationing of health care at all” in the
proposed reform.
Remember the joke about the man who asks a woman if she would have sex with him for a
million dollars? She reflects for a few moments and then answers that she would. “So,” he says,
“would you have sex with me for $50?” Indignantly, she exclaims, “What kind of a woman do
you think I am?” He replies: “We’ve already established that. Now we’re just haggling about the
price.” The man’s response implies that if a woman will sell herself at.
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New health care bills devastating impact on the mentally ill addicts and treatment
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New Health Care Bill’s Devastating Impact on the
Mentally Ill, Addicts and Treatment
thesoberworld.com/2017/06/01/new-health-care-bills-devasting-impact-mentally-ill-addicts-treatment
It was a typical spring day when Olympic Gold Medalists Allison Schmitt and Michael
Phelps received special recognition awards from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration (SAMHSA). During the ceremony held at George Washington
University both Schmitt and Phelps spoke openly about their personal battles with
depression. The awards were presented by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom
Price, M.D. “Mental illness and drug addiction, along with childhood obesity, are some of
the most urgent challenges facing America today,” said Secretary Price. “As Secretary of
HHS, promoting the behavioral health of all Americans and reducing the impact of
substance abuse and mental illness on our communities are among my top priorities.
This was SAMHSA’s annual event to recognize National Children’s Mental Health
Awareness Day 2017 “Partnering for Help and Hope” which focuses on the importance of
addressing physical, mental, emotional, and behavioral health needs when providing
services and supports for children, youth, and young adults. There has been a notable
increase in overall rates of major depressive episodes among all adolescents.
There was another celebration going on at the same time in Washington D.C. no more
than a mile away from the “Partnering for Help and Hope” event. In the White House
Rose Garden, President Trump and a group of House Representatives bestowed each
other with adulations and pats on the back for the narrow passage of a piece of legislation
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that – if passed by the Senate –will effectively strips millions of Americans of addiction
and mental healthcare coverage. “We’ve taken a historic first step to repeal and replace
Obamacare and finally give the American people the kind of health care they deserve,”
Vice President Mike Pence stated, prompting a thunderous applause.
The cruel irony was completely lost on the lawmakers as they joyfully toasted each other
and sipped on their chilled bubbly refreshments in the comfortable surroundings of the
Rose Garden. However, the celebration seems a bit premature as they’re normally
reserved for a bill signed into law.
There are many who have suggested that the passage of the American Health Care Act
(AHCA) in the House is an example of Trump making good on his campaign promise to
repeal and replace the The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). But
attached to that promise was a better healthcare program than the existing ACA with
lower premiums, lower co-pays and better coverage for all Americans. Those promises
remain unkept leaving many to wonder how the new healthcare program will affect them.
The answer to that question varies from person to person, unless of course you’re an
addict or have mental health issues in which case the answer is devastating.
The core of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the requirement of
participating insurance companies to cover the “Essential Health Benefits” as outlined in
the bill. Included in the benefits is mental health and addiction treatment. This one
element of the ACA dragged mental health and addiction out of the stone age and placed
the diseases squarely in the twenty-first century. It is the first time in American history
that mental health and addiction were rightly identified as diseases that warrant
insurance coverage like any other disease. It’s my opinion that the ACA did more to
remove the stigma attached to poor mental health and addiction than any law before it.
The ACA went further by making sure middle and lower income Americans have access to
treatment. It gave states the option to expand their Medicaid programs to cover all people
by increasing eligibility levels for individuals and families with a household income below
a certain level. Thirty-one states and the District of Columbia adopted the plan and it’s
working. Specific data is hard to come by, but reputable sources estimate that as many as
ten million Americans now have access to healthcare – some for the first time – from this
one provision in the ACA. Moreover, the ACA provides Premium Tax Credits (PTC) on
Marketplace insurance plans for individuals and families who don’t qualify for Medicaid
but still cannot afford health insurance. In all, the ACA has provided more than twenty-
million Americans with access to healthcare that previously had none.
But more to the point, the Affordable Care Act provided the first opportunity for millions
of low and middle income Americans to get mental health and addiction treatment. In
addition, the federal government has committed billions of dollars to help addicts find
recovery and turn the tide on America’s opioid epidemic. And the program is working.
As flawed as the Affordable Care Act may be, it did set the tone and move the direction of
mental health and addiction treatment forward. Its possible replacement, The American
Health Care Act, is about to change all of that and more. If passed in its current form by
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senate and signed into law by the President, mental health and addiction treatment will
become severely compromised. This new measure will effectively send addiction and
mental health treatment back to the stone-age with less coverage and higher premiums
and co-pays – exactly one-hundred and eighty degrees opposite of the politician’s
promises.
Below are the five key areas where the American Health Care Act will eviscerate treatment
for people with addictions and mental health issues.
Medicaid Cuts
Medicaid is a federal program established over fifty-years ago and adopted by all fifty
states and the District of Columbia. It provides matching funds to participating states for
the expressed purpose of providing medical assistance to residents who meet certain
eligibility requirements such as low income adults, their children, people with disabilities,
pregnancy or being a woman with children. Each state administers its own Medicaid
program.
Under the bill passed in the House, federal spending on Medicaid would be slash by $880
billion over ten-years. Medicaid expansion, the program responsible for insurance
coverage for up to ten-million Americans, will be phased out by 2020.
In addition, the funding of Medicaid will be changed from its current federal/state
partnership each paying their share person by person, to a block grant from the federal
government. This is an optimal option for the feds but leaves states with less money for
treatment. Many healthcare experts have stated the block grant will force Medicaid to
revert back to being a program for just a fraction of the poor.
Subsidies
Under the Affordable Trade Act, subsidies are given to the insurance companies or tax
credits to low or middle income beneficiaries to make insurance affordable. The proposed
healthcare bill will eliminate these subsidies leaving these Americans without healthcare
coverage.
Essential Health Benefits
The American Health Care Act that was approved by the House in May 2017 eliminates
the federal requirement stipulating that insurance companies provide coverage for the
health issues identified within the Essential Health Benefits of the ACA – including
mental health and addiction. That authority to require what insurance companies cover is
being passed down to state level.
Altruistically, I’m sure most states would want coverage for their citizens with addiction
and mental health issues. But, with limited financial resources and shrinking dollars
coming from the federal government, something has to go. State officials are going to be
forced to make very difficult decisions if the American Health Care Act becomes law.
Pre-existing Conditions
Under the current Affordable Care Act, insurance companies are required to insure people
with pre-existing conditions. The law also prohibits insurance companies from charging
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people with preexisting conditions higher premiums. The new bill passed in the House
would eliminate these protections and allow states to waive them as well.
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit focusing on health care research,
these are just a few of the conditions universally used to deny people coverage:
• Alcohol or drug abuse with recent treatment
• Alzheimer’s/dementia
• Mental disorders (including Anxiety, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Obsessive
Compulsive Disorder, Schizophrenia)
There are a lot more – in fact, so many that the list is too long to print here but you can
find it online.
High Risk Pools
If you are an addict or have mental health issues, chances are you’ll end up in a state run,
federally funded high-risk pool. In theory, these pools are made available to people with
medical histories, such as addiction and mental health issues, to get coverage at standard
prices. But what politicians are reluctant to tell you is that the pools are grossly
underfunded – so much so that Ohio’s Governor, John Kasich, laughed at how little the
federal government budgeted for the program stating that” It’s ridiculous; and the fact is,
states are not going to opt for that.”
If you think you’re safe because you get your health insurance through your employer,
you’re not! The Brookings Institute found a last-minute amendment that they claim by
“allowing states to define “essential health benefits” could weaken Affordable Care Act’s
protections against catastrophic costs for people with employer coverage nationwide.”
With the exception of politicians whose healthcare is unaffected by this bill, everyone,
regardless of how or where you get your health coverage, will be exposed to some negative
affect from this legislation if it becomes law.
It just seems counter intuitive to me to take away the very resources that have been
effective in treating addiction and saving lives in the middle of the worst opioid epidemic
this country has ever seen. Does any of this reality live up to the rhetoric?
One politician has gone so far as to say, “Nobody dies because they don’t have access to
health care.” This contradicts a 2009 Harvard study (most recent data on the subject
available) that revealed some 45,000 Americans die annually due to their lack of health
insurance.
After exhaustive research on the proposed healthcare plan, I find calling this bill the
“American Healthcare Act” disingenuous – there is nothing American about it. If
politicians were to be intellectually honest with us they’d call this bill the “You’re Going to
Pay More and Get Less Healthcare – Draconian Act.” None of the political rhetoric lives
up to the reality of what this bill does. The reality of the American Healthcare Act is your
premiums and co-pays are going to go up for insurance coverage that goes down while
tens of millions of Americans are left without insurance and tens of thousands die
avoidable deaths every year from a new disease about to spread across this great country
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of ours called “inaccessible healthcare.” That is the unfiltered, raw unvarnished reality of
the American Healthcare Act and none of us, unless you’re a politician, come out of this
unscathed.
What I find truly astonishing is the politicians’ statements regarding this bill. I’m hearing
them talk about slashing budgets, tax credits, tax rollbacks, high-risk pools and block
grants. But nowhere do I hear them say how many more Americans will be covered, how
outcomes will improve, new protections for people and how many lives will be saved by
the American Healthcare Act. Isn’t that the whole purpose of healthcare – to keep us and
our children healthy and alive?! You’d think that after the trillions of dollars we give in
taxes every year, the very least our senators and congress men and women could do is
provide us with a robust healthcare system at a reasonable price.
Ask yourself “does this bill help me or hurt me?” “Am I willing to entrust my most
valuable personal asset, my health, to a politician intent on cutting healthcare budgets?”
“Is this the kind of health care I deserve?” “Is my congress man or woman or senator
working for me or against me?” “Do they expect me to accept less than what I currently
have?”
Everyone has something to lose if the American Healthcare Act is passed in the senate. No
one gets to ride the pine and sit this one out. Now, more than ever, it is imperative you
call your senator and tell them to vote “no” on the American Healthcare Act. Social media
is good but the simple fact of the matter is that phone calls carry the most clout. If you’re
not sure who your senator is or what number to call, you can find a list of all senators and
their numbers on my site www.preventaddictionrelapse.com.