Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Healthcare Standards Analysis

This essay discusses the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and its influence on healthcare standards, focusing on staffing, decision-making, and workplace issues. The ACA has led to increased staffing due to expanded coverage and pre-existing condition protection. However, it has also created conflicts within healthcare organizations as cost-control measures sometimes prioritize non-specialized doctors, causing patient anxiety and resistance from doctors and insurers. The essay references scholarly articles to support its analysis of the ACA's positive and negative impacts on healthcare delivery and organizational dynamics, including staffing changes, workplace conflicts, and maintaining standards of patient care.

Affordable Care Act
Tessa Forde

The Topic
The Affordable Care Act, commonly known as the
patient protection and affordable care act is the
federal statute of the United States. The act has
been enacted by the 111th United States Congress
and came in the force in the year 2010.
Provision of essential health benefits
Enables additional preventive care and screenings
for women patients and children
The methods of contraceptive, process of
sterilization and education and the counselling of
the patient has been made mandate

Analyse the Influence
Apart from the above factors and the stands there
lies many the principles and factors registered
under the Affordable Care Act (Blumenthal,
Abrams & Nuzum, 2015). Some of these will
be analysed in the discussion below
highlighting how these process and the
concepts tends to influence the standards of
the health care organisation I am serving
currently

Support the Discussion
In the context of the staffing of the organization,
the positive side is that the health care institute
has saw increase in the staffing (Frean, Gruber &
Sommers, 2017). The law provided full coverage
pre exiting condition and also the inclusion of the
children on the health plan of their parents. This
has increase the rate of the patients admitted to
the hospital.

Importance of the Act
In case of the decision making and the workplace issues,
the affordable care act has enhanced in increase of the
conflict in the health care institute (Uberoi, Finegold &
Gee, 2016). The health care institute in the aim of
controlling the costs by diverting the simple cases from
the high specialised doctors to the non-specialised
doctors thus creating conflict among the patients who
are promised quality care as per the care act. This
negative side promotes anxiousness among the patients
of not getting proper care, the doctors of losing patients
and the insurers of the hospital of getting frustrating
resistance by the parties.

Reference
Blumenthal, D., Abrams, M., & Nuzum, R. (2015). The affordable care act at 5 years.
Frean, M., Gruber, J., & Sommers, B. D. (2017). Premium subsidies, the mandate, and
Medicaid expansion: Coverage effects of the Affordable Care Act. Journal of Health
Economics, 53, 72-86.
Sommers, B. D., Maylone, B., Blendon, R. J., Orav, E. J., & Epstein, A. M. (2017).
Three-year impacts of the Affordable Care Act: improved medical care and health
among low-income adults. Health Affairs, 36(6), 1119-1128.
Uberoi, N., Finegold, K., & Gee, E. (2016). Health insurance coverage and the
Affordable Care Act, 2010-2016. Washington (DC): Department of Health and
Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.

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