Analysis of Affordable Care Act and Triple Aim in Healthcare

This report examines the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the Triple Aim, focusing on their roles in improving healthcare. It explores how the ACA aims to provide affordable health insurance and how the Triple Aim seeks to enhance patient experience, improve population health, and reduce per capita healthcare costs. The report highlights the alignment of these two initiatives, emphasizing their shared goals of disease prevention, cost reduction, and improved healthcare access. The analysis covers aspects like the shift from treatment to prevention, the challenges of balancing quality and cost, and strategies for improving population health through patient engagement and health promotion. The report uses references to support its claims. The report concludes by reiterating the importance of both the ACA and the Triple Aim in achieving quality healthcare at a reduced cost.

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Introduction
Triple aim is defined as simultaneous pursuit of improving the patient experience of care,
health of a population and reducing per capita cost of health care (Burl, 2017). Affordable care act
is a health reform law which was introduced in March 2010 to make affordable health insurance
available to more people (Burl, 2017). This paper will look at how affordable care act and triple
aim align in terms of promoting health to the people.
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Triple aim and affordable care act are both health reform laws enacted to ensure
affordable and quality health services to all people including middle income earners (Hilton,
2014). One of the importance of triple aim is that, it aims at improving patient’s experience hence
making it easy for them to interact with health care systems. This is achieved through designing
systems which are able to assess patients overall health and identifying areas of risks. On the
other hand, one of the purpose of affordable care act is shifting the focus of health care systems
from treatment to prevention. The American public health association found that 75 % of the
funds are used in disease treatment whereas 3% in prevention (Mel, 2010). This made them to
come up with measures of preventing diseases rather than treating them. These two function are
similar because they both aim at identifying and preventing risks which can bring health issues.
Moreover, reducing cost to improve efficiency in health care is another purpose served by
both triple aim and affordable care act. Health care costs in America are extremely higher than
those of other countries (Pilar, 2012). Higher costs does not mean that people are receiving
quality services. Although balancing quality services and reduced cost is hard, the US

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government has come up with ways of helping the poor by giving them subsides. Government
collect these subsides by taxing private health operators and high income earners.
Lastly, both triple aim and affordable care act aim at improving population health (Mel,
2010). People living in a community can become a patient and therefore identifying and
addressing risks can prevent some form of illnesses. Some of the things done to improve
population health includes, involving people when designing care models. This will help in
coming up with care systems which are in line with their culture. Secondly, both triple aim and
affordable care act promote population health by improving on disease prevention and health
promotion. In this case, these two laws try to come up with systems which are able to identify
risks. They also aim at providing education to the people on type of nutrition to take to help them
improve health.
Conclusion.
Triple aim helps in ensuring improved patient experience of health care, population
health and reduced per capita cost of care. Affordable care act was introduced to ensure
availability of affordable health insurance services to all. The two models aims at ensuring
people receive quality services at a reduced costs.

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References
Burl, G. (2017). To Improve Health Care Quality and Cut Costs, Collaboration Instead of Competition.
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Hilton, R.R. (2014). Pay-for-Quality Programs Mean Better Health Care, Lower Costs. Honolulu Star -
Advertiser, PP. 70-130
Mel, p. (2010). Peace Health Is at Peace with Concept of Health Care Reform. The Register Guard
(Eugene, OR), pp. 120-400
Pilar, B. (2012). State Blazes Better Health Care Trail. The Register Guard (Eugene, OR), PP. 30-150