Affordable Health Care Act and Medicaid Expansion

Affordable
Health Care Act
and Medicaid
Expansion
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Addressed
The Patient Protection and the
Affordable Care Act was
formulated to
address(Sommers et al. ,
2015) :
•Lack of accessibility of quality
healthcare services.
•Lack of adequate coverage of
healthcare insurance .
The Affordable Care Act
presented the following
features (Wherry & Miller,
2016):
•Expansion of Medicaid to
families with 138% income of

Policy Formulation:
Background
•The Affordable Care Act
(ACA) was federally approved
by Barrack Obama on March
2010.
•The ACA’s core principle was
based on the belief that basic
healthcare security is the
right of every citizen.
•The ACA, aimed to increase
accessibility of insurance to
over 30 million uninsured
Americans.
•Despite opposition, who the
ACA came into effect upon
the re-election of Obama in

Involvement of Key
Stakeholders
The key stakeholders include
the following (French et al.,
2016):
•The government
•Insurance companies
•Employers
•Pharmaceutical firms
•Patients
•Physicians