Healthcare Policy Presentation: Hospice Care, ACA Repeal and Solution

This project is a student's presentation analyzing the implications of the potential repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on hospice care. The presentation begins by outlining the potential loss of medical coverage and jobs resulting from the repeal, and the importance of the ACA for providing healt...Read More

Running head: HEALTHCARE POLICY
Healthcare policy
Student Name
University Name
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Healthcare policy
The nation over, 29.8 million individuals would lose their medical coverage if the
Affordable Care Act were to be repealed — dramatically increasing the quantity of
individuals without medical coverage. Moreover, 1.2 million occupations would be lost — in
medicinal services as well. Losing medical coverage would likewise be wrecking for family
funds and hurt the economy. By helping take care of the check for singular insurance and
extending inclusion on Medicaid, the ACA has helped a great many Americans manage the
cost of their health care. On the off chance that this help were pulled back, individuals would
have less cash to spend on other essential necessities like rent and food (Cox, Claxton &
Levitt, 2017). On May 4, 2017, the United States House of Representatives casted a vote to
pass the American Health Care Act (and in this manner repeal the majority of the Affordable
Care Act) by a restricted edge of 217 to 213, sending the bill to the Senate for deliberation.
The Senate demonstrated they would compose their own adaptation of the bill, rather than
deciding on the House rendition (Glied & Jackson, 2017). On June 22, the Better Care
Reconciliation Act of 2017 was divulged. In any case, there were very little votes
accumulated from the Republicans and the Democrats side which brought about the dismissal
of the bill.
Solution
For the appropriate addressal of issue relating to the repeal of the affordable care act
and the effect of it on the hospice care, it is required to find an appropriate solution such that
the situation could be controlled. Hence, as a solution, it could be suggested to provide a
permanent federal coverage for the reinsurance program for people who are not covered in a
group. It can be deduced from the solution that even if the act is repealed, there are certain
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measures which are to be taken into consideration by the government to reduce the fiscal loss
in revenue and further diminishing economy.
Justification
In unfortunate circumstances, hospice care is definitely underutilized by adolescents
and children towards the end of their life. Every year, more than three-fourths of over 55 000
pediatric deaths occur in an emergency clinic setting without hospice care association. Far
reaching hospice administrations for children offer an opportunity for family-focused health
care with noticeable side effect management towards the end of their life (Lindley et al.,
2019). In spite of the fact that most of pediatric deaths are because of inadvertent injury, it is
assessed that about 17 000 deaths every year are because of constant, complex conditions,
and most of these youngsters are taken a crack at Medicaid as a result of their handicap
status, seriousness of disease or medical condition, or in general utilitarian status.
Before the Affordable Care Act (ACA), enrollment of children in Medicaid and their
families needed to pick between proceeding with healing treatments and accepting hospice
care administrations. For huge numbers of these children, remedial treatments incorporate
long-standing regimens fundamental for management of symptom and ideal personal
satisfaction. Doing without healing treatments to enroll at hospice care was a qualification
prerequisite that must be changed by action of policy (Rosenbaum et al., 2017). Perceiving
that couple of families would settle on the decision to end healing treatments to join up with
hospice care, various states drove initiatives of policy focused toward extending palliative
and hospice care arrangement and enlistment for children with life-constraining conditions.
Since the ACA's determination, a normal 20 million people have as of late been
insured, and around 24 million people have gotten to supported or free consideration through
business community evaluation credits and Medicaid advancement. Notwithstanding these
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triumphs, the law went up against strong political headwinds from the earliest starting point.
There have been reiterated calls from the different sides of the political range to drop the law
and displace it with elective changes or to alter the law to address various destinations
(Miller, 2018). However, it is critical for the lawmakers to realize that most number of
hospice care workers are Medicaid beneficiaries and the repeal of the ACA will place them in
grave danger. These hospice care workers are responsible to provide quality care to the
individuals who are unable to take of themselves while also managing to provide emotional
and physical support to the caregivers, loved ones and also the patients.
Elected official and why
The elected official who will be presented with the solution is the subject lecturer. It is
this individual who will be the best person to give a presentation to because of extreme
knowledge in the field of health care policy and the possible reforms.
Presentation technique
Usage of visual aids, storytelling, rehearsing it before hand and the usage of short and
constructive sentences for the audience to be engaged with the presentation are the four
presentation techniques which will be used while delivering the information. These measures
will ensure that the audience well understands the issue that is being discussed and the
outcome that could be established for the issue to be resolved. Rather than the customary
arrangement of slides, the visual aids of an introduction would now be able to be realistic
coordinators on a boundless canvas. Developing realistic coordinators beneficially affects
learning; however, this point has not been concentrated with regards to giving an
introduction. The current examination inspected by Casteleyn, Mottart, and Valcke (2015)
made 199 students set up a presentation. The control test made visual aids that are like a deck
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of slides with content and pictures. In the principal exploratory condition, realistic
coordinators were embedded in slides, and in the second trial condition, visuals aids with
interconnected realistic coordinators were delivered. There were no huge contrasts in self-
revealed self-viability identified with giving an introduction and in inspirational factors. To
recognize if the introductions met the standards set by the conditions, the members' items
were coded subjectively, yet this examination additionally yielded no distinctions in factors.
Further research ought to consequently investigate the connection among presenter and
software.
Transcript
Good Morning to my professors and dear colleagues. I think it is clear to you people
as to why we have gathered here. It is primarily because of the presentation that I am going to
give it to you about the healthcare policy on which I have created a presentation for you
people to understand the implications of it on the common population. Now, we all know
about the Trump Government to be interested in modifying or better term, repeal the already
existing act that is, Affordable Care Act. What we need to understand initially is whether
there is a need to modify or repeal it. As we can see, on May 4, 2017, the United States
House of Representatives casted a vote to pass the American Health Care Act by a restricted
edge of 217 to 213, sending the bill to the Senate for deliberation. But also, in lieu with this,
it can be observed that a vote had to be casted in favor of the bill which astonishingly, most
of the individuals in the court did not. Hence, this bill never became an act and there is still
no repealing of the Affordable Care Act.
Now what I would like to discuss is the issue of the hospice care givers which are
likely to be affected with the repeal of the act. An expected 20 million individuals have got
recently insured, and roughly 24 million individuals have accessed sponsored or free care
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through commercial center assessment credits and Medicaid development are benefitted
because of the presence of the Act. The hospice care workers are largely beneficiaries of the
Affordable Care Act and it is high time for the government to take them into careful
consideration and deduce an effective plan. Hence, after understanding the issue from the
core and thinking of multiple arenas where help could be provided, I have deduced that
permanent federal coverage for the reinsurance program for people who are not covered in a
group is to be structured to reduce the incidence of unhappiness among the hospice care
workers. As we can see from the images, it is understandable that hospice care workers are
usually involved with providing care to the elderly people or disabled individual in the nation
in the form of emotional and physical support.
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References
Casteleyn, J., Mottart, A., & Valcke, M. (2015). Creating visual aids with graphic organisers
on an infinite canvas: the impact on the presenter. Research in Learning
Technology, 23(1).
Cox, C., Claxton, G., & Levitt, L. (2017). How Affordable Care Act repeal and replace plans
might shift health insurance tax credits. Health Reform.
Glied, S., & Jackson, A. (2017). The future of the Affordable Care Act and insurance
coverage. American journal of public health, 107(4), 538-540.
Lindley, L. C., Cohrs, A. C., Keim-Malpass, J., & Leslie, D. L. (2019). Children enrolled in
hospice care under commercial insurance: a comparison of different age
groups. American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®, 36(2), 123-129.
Miller, E. (Ed.). (2018). The Affordable Care Act: Advancing Long-term Care Policy in the
United States. Routledge.
Rosenbaum, S., Rothenberg, S., Gunsalus, R., & Schmucker, S. (2017). Medicaid’s Future:
What Might ACA Repeal Mean?. Issue Brief (Commonw Fund), 2, 1-8.
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