Impact of ACA and Triple Aim on US Healthcare System - Report

This report provides an analysis of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the Triple Aim, focusing on their alignment and impact on the US healthcare system. It begins by introducing the ACA, signed into law in 2010, and the Triple Aim, a framework created by the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI) to enhance patient experience, improve population health, and reduce healthcare costs. The report explores how the ACA and Triple Aim share common goals, such as emphasizing patient and family engagement, improving care coordination, promoting preventive care, and ensuring the affordability of care. The analysis references key literature to support its arguments and highlights the significance of both initiatives in improving healthcare standards in the US. The conclusion emphasizes the evolving nature of healthcare and encourages participation in the enhancement of these important initiatives, which will lead to better patient outcomes and more efficient healthcare delivery. The report also references the positive impact of the ACA and Triple Aim on healthcare delivery.

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Introduction
Former US president Barack Obama officially signed into law the Affordable Care Act,
popularly known as Obama care, in the year 2010 and later got implemented in 2014. It calls
for certain US residents and all American citizens to buy a compliant wellbeing cover for the
whole year or pay a penalty when filing a tax return (Blumberg, Holahan & Zuckerman
2018).
The healthcare Improvement organization created The Triple Aim with the goal of
upgrading execution of wellbeing framework (Puffer et al 2015). It is IHI's conviction that
new plans must be created at the same time ensure achievement of its three main goals which
are:
 Patient’s care experience improvement
 Upgrading the population’s health
 Medicinal services cost reduction
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Triple Aim was proclaimed by the Institute of Healthcare Improvement eleven years ago,
which aims at concurrent enhancements in patient encounters, lower cost per capita and
improved populace wellbeing. In 2010, ACA guaranteed affordable, quality human services
for every American. It's reasonable to expect that the composers of ACA knew about the
Triple Aim, and almost certainly, quite a bit of ACA was vigorously impacted by positions of

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IHI's. So it is sensible, now and again, to evaluate ACA's effect on social insurance against
the Triple Aim standards (Rudnicki et al 2016).
The Affordable care act and triple aim align with each other in various ways in ensuring
the provision of better healthcare services. These include:
Guarantee person and family engagement- they both focus on driving the healthcare
system to concentrate on the patient's needs and caregivers' needs not the needs of the health
system.
Enhance effective coordination and communication of care- reduce care transitions and
work on improving the communication about the care and bringing together of the care.
They both work on promoting successful treatment and prevention- concentrate on what
is working and not immediately trying out something. This has resulted in reduced
contradictory medications.
They both work to ensure support of paramount practices for healthy living- providing
support to families so that they support their sick ones.
Ensure affordability of care – comprehensive care of the patient is a responsibility of the
health systems- innovative and new ways of care provision will assist families in the care of
the family unit.

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Conclusion
In conclusion, both the Affordable Care Act and Triple Aim have changed health care as
we know it. This is the road map to where we are headed to and all and sundry are
encouraged to participate in their enhancement. Health care provision will change and be held
up in lower overhead environments which will engage families out of necessity (Skinner
2016).
Access to far-reaching, quality medicinal services is significant for looking after wellbeing
and advancing health, overseeing and forestalling sickness, reducing superfluous disability
and unexpected deaths, and achieving wellbeing value for every American. We should
appreciate the fact that both the Affordable Care Act and Triple aim have significantly
promoted achievement and enhancement of better health provision standards in the US.

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References
Blumberg, L. J., Holahan, J., & Zuckerman, S. (2018). The Healthy America Program. Urban
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Puffer, J. C., Borkan, J., DeVoe, J. E., Davis, A., Phillips Jr, R. L., Green, L. A., & Saultz, J.
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Rudnicki, M., Armstrong, J. H., Clark, C., Marcus, S. G., Sacks, L., Moser, A. J., & Reid-
Lombardo, K. (2016). Expected and Unexpected Consequences of the Affordable Care
Act: The Impact on Patients and Surgeons–Pro and Con Arguments. Journal of
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Skinner, D. (2016). The politics of Native American health care and the Affordable Care Act.
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