Healthcare Reform Bill Analysis

The Health Care Reform Bill was passed in 2010 under President Barack Obama's leadership to reform the healthcare sector and provide Medicaid to common people without any hindrance. The bill aimed to modify the existing healthcare system, making preventive services free, discounts available on branded medicines, and training doctors and healthcare professionals to provide better care. Key features included allowing consumers to compare and choose insurance online, covering children, providing Medicaid to senior citizens, and spreading awareness about disease prevention.

HEALTHCARE REFORM BILL
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Topic: Health Care Reform Bill 2010.............................................................................................3
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Topic: Health Care Reform Bill 2010
The Health Care Reform Bill was passed in the year 2010, under the presidentship of Barrack
Obama, in the United States, with the objective of modifying the health care sector and to
provide the Medicaid to the common people without any hindrance, whatsoever (Blumenthal &
Collins, 2014). The bill was passed with the consent of the majority of members in the senate
and reached the magic figure of 216; the results of the vote being 219 to 212 (Jacobs & Skocpol,
2015). Right after the approval of the Bill by the Congress, Barrack Obama expressed his views
and intentions and stated that the Act may not be capable of doing away with all the ailments in
the existent healthcare system; however it will herald a new beginning in the system of
healthcare in America.
The timeline of the reforms:
Year Reforms
2010 The Bill is passed, with the intention of saving the common people from the unjust
clauses of the insurance services
2011 The main preventive services are made free and discounts on the branded
medicines are made available for use
2012 The governmental healthcare organizations participates in training the doctors and
the healthcare professionals in order to enable them to provide better care to the
patients (Obama, 2016)
2013 Enrollment of common people in Heath Insurance Marketplace
2014 All the American citizens are given the opportunity to avail healthcare insurance with
little or no investments on their part
Key Features of the Healthcare Reform Bill:
 Allowed he consumers to compare and choose the healthcare insurance online, after
comparing the clauses with all the others available
 Even the children were covered under the insurance schemes
 Around 4 million senior citizens were provided Medicaid
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 The funds for organizing campaigns to spread awareness among the people regarding the
prevention of diseases (Shaw et al., 2014)
These, along with several other clauses of the reform Bill instigated the healthcare organizations
to prioritize the consumers and the benefits of the healthcare service users above anything else
and almost 95% of the Americans were covered under the healthcare insurance schemes, which
provided the underprivileged and the poor to have access to medical treatment facilities and free
life-saving medicines.
References
Blumenthal, D., & Collins, S. R. (2014). Health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act—a
progress report.
Jacobs, L., & Skocpol, T. (2015). Health care reform and American politics: What everyone
needs to know. Oxford University Press.
Obama, B. (2016). United States health care reform: progress to date and next
steps. Jama, 316(5), 525-532.
Shaw, F. E., Asomugha, C. N., Conway, P. H., & Rein, A. S. (2014). The Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act: opportunities for prevention and public health. The Lancet, 384(9937), 75-
82.
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