Impact of Affordable Care Act on Health Outcomes and Access to Quality Care

Running Head: AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
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Table of Contents
Introduction....................................................................................................................2
Discussion......................................................................................................................2
Admission..................................................................................................................2
Discharge....................................................................................................................3
Rehabilitation.............................................................................................................3
Aftercare.....................................................................................................................4
Acquisition of medications........................................................................................5
Differences.................................................................................................................5
Conclusion......................................................................................................................6
References......................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
Admission into the hospital is defined as granting the patient the permission to stay in
the hospital so that proper observation, treatment, investigation and care can be given to the
patients. It can either be an emergency admission and routine admission. Affordable Care Act
or ACA is a law that was passed in order to provide the adequate amount of treatment to all
the patients irrespective of the economic hardships (Barlas, 2014). ACA helped to increase
the number of insurance coverage along with the access to quality care. The essay tends to
discuss the difference in the health outcome after and before the law was passed. The essay
also highlights the gain that was available to the patients after the law was passed. The
affordable care act thus, has the potential to improve the availability of the quality of care to
each patient and also the health reforms that took place largely after the law was passed
(Bluementhal, abrams & Nuzums, 2015).
Discussion
Admission
A lot of research has been done that highlights the fact that ACA has prompted an
emerging catastrophe in the healthcare sector. This is because the hospitals are merging with
insurance companies and are also buying the physicians in order to make more and more
primary health care centres or community care centres (Buchmuellet et al., 2016). Thus, it
highlights how the private insurance companies are picking up the pace and are using the
ACA for their own benefits while the ailments of the patients remain the same. Along with
affecting the patients it also affects the staff of the hospitals as the system shifts from the
volume of care to the quality of care (Courtemanche et al., 2018). On one hand the law has
increased the accessibility of healthcare services to a large section of people at the same time,
the hospitals are not able to handle the large amount of patients due to shortage of skilled