Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care United States Assignment 2022

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The Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act 2014, was developed and enacted
to law in order to allow all citizens of the United States have access to quality, affordable health
care, and will lead to creation of a health care system that will use only the required and
necessary cost ("The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act", 2014). This Act consist of
three major components or goals which include ensuring that more than 94% of people have
affordable health insurance, ensure all Americans have quality and affordable care and reduce
health care cost by minimizing the deficits by around 118 billion dollars over the next decade
and even more in the following years ("The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act", 2014).
These components are subdivided into other major objectives which include the roles of the
public programs, quality and affordable care for all citizens, enhancing efficiency and quality
care of health, prevention of chronic diseases and enhancing public health, health care
workforce, program integrity and transparency, maximizing access to innovative medical
interventions, and revenue provisions ("The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act", 2014).
However, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has led to various impacts on
health care providers including nurses and doctors(Shaw, Asomugha, Conway, & Rein, 2014).
With current situations, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has led to an increase in a
healthcare workforce shortage. The Act increased the number of people with health insurance
which has led to an increase in number with both outpatient and inpatient clients with same or
little increase in a number of nurses and doctors employed(Shaw et al., 2014). Due to this,
nursing and medicine have been stressful due to work overload. Other than that, the quality of
patient care in both nursing and medicine have reduced as there is limited time with patients and
the government has been involved in the patient-provider relationship.