Affordable Care for Patients

Running head: Affordable care for patients
Affordable care for patients
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AFFORDABLE CARE FOR PATIENTS1
The affordable care act is a special provision for affordable health facilities started by
the US government in the year 2010. This act started by the Obama government was an uplift
in existing health laws. The law ensured that people of the US enjoys insurances by the
government relating to different arenas of health. The act gives more significant to needs of
women and children (Rosenbaum , 2015). Another feature of this act is giving special
provisions to the employers or the insurers. For instance, a company who provide adequate
health care to the patients can get exemption from taxes. This kind of decisions makes the
employers more indulging in health care act. The act makes sure that everyone gets the
benefits irrespective of any status. The insurance gives security in the form of insurance to
the clients but there is a need of advocacy for getting the rights (Blumenthal, Abrams &
Nuzum, 2015). Patient advocates make sure that the rights and acts are being properly
implemented because there are many who do not even know about the act or the process of
access. Patient advocates are generally not any form of any health organization but there
focus is the proper initiation of the act to everyone. This is essential because many times due
to social reasons or negligence may not see the people enjoying benefits. In nine years, the
act has included many provisions upon changing needs of people (Poghosyan & Clarke ,
2016). Many illnesses like diabetes had very low insurance with fewer benefits so this act
was a boon for them. This act protects the rights of existing laws and adds advantage. Nurses
play an important role in these provisions of act as their main responsibility is advocating the
basic health care to every individuals. The act makes sure that every individual irrespective of
his race or religion gets the benefit and nurses must intervene to make sure that every person
is benefitted from the regulations.
As nurses, it is our ardent responsibility to follow the guidelines of the affordable act
and we can contribute to the safe practise by helping everyone get the benefits. The act
requires us to be more precise in giving the data of the patient’s medical history (Buerhaus et

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al., 2015). Nurses also promote safety and promotion of the rights and safety of the patient.
Nurses’ responsibility must not be limited to the hospital only we should interact with more
persons individually and make them understand the pros and cons of the insurance. The
health care act is dedicated to affordable and best assured health facility, therefore the nurses
has a major role to play here. The best healthcare could be provided by proper care as
provided by nurses. The nurses need to work harder and make outcome based results for
result oriented health facilities (Sommers et al ., 2017). There is a need of systematic
approach to identify the crisis and approach the framework. Nurses as nursing profession
deals with all the above subjects can guide all these principles. The contribution of every
health professional is necessary for the success and the nurses are required to take part in the
process in every aspect. Nurses can also advocate the rights of their client if needed in
emergency situations where the person may be devoid of health rights. In some cases person
may not have full access to the right so here we as nurses can intervene to educate the person
and make him willing to make decision and adhere to the rules and regulations of the process,
meanwhile understand the benefits. These small steps can make a revolutionary change in the
benefits of the act to everyone and advocacy of health rights. The healthcare act may see
better outcome if collaborated with the nursing interventions as this would give the process a
boost, as our knowledge is required in great deal.
Nurses can advocate for better health care and have enormous role in improving the
situation of health related outcomes. The rights of patients are often not protected due to lack
of awareness or other factors (Uluror, Finegod & Gee, 2016). In such problems, nurses can
step in because they know about the information about the act and this can be conveyed to the
patients. The insurances and the information can be misconducted by public companies for
their benefit and although people will be enrolled with the insurance, they may not get health
benefit. Therefore, we nurses are required to make people aware of the procedure to get the