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Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act

Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act. Megan Dorwin Juan Carlos Galvez Catherine Buckheit Rachel Kaschmitter Kaci Long. Patient Protection Affordable Health Care Act. Fully paid for

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Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act

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  1. Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act Megan Dorwin Juan Carlos Galvez Catherine Buckheit Rachel Kaschmitter Kaci Long

  2. Patient Protection Affordable Health Care Act • Fully paid for • Will provide coverage to more than 94% of Americans while staying under the $900 billion limit • Bends the health care cost curve • Reduces the deficit over the next ten years • Eliminates discriminatory practices

  3. Proving the Need • All people don’t have health insurance • Counterproductive • Less preventative care causes bigger problems in the future which is linked to developmental and educational deficits in children • Reduction in resources and productivity • Vulnerable populations have major difficulties

  4. Statistics • The Uninsured • Working Poor • Minority Groups • How it Benefits • Expenditures

  5. The NASW Policy Statement “A national health care policy that ensures the right to universal access to a continuum of health and mental health care throughout all stages of the life cycle. The goal of such a policy is to promote wellness, maintain optimal health, prevent illness and disability, treat health conditions, ameliorate the effects of unavoidable incapacities, and provide supportive long-term and end-of-life care. This policy should result in the equitable delivery of services for all people in the United States, regardless of financial status, race, ethnicity, disability, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, or geographic location.” National Association of Social Workers, 2008, p 169

  6. References • Democratic Policy Committee. (2010). Responsible Reform for the Middle Class. Retrieved from: http://dpc.senate.gov/healthreformbill/healthbill04.pdf • National Association of Social Workers. (2008). Health Care Policy. In S. Cowman & L. M. O’Hearn (Eds.), Social work speaks (140-144). Washington DC: NASW Press. • Silverman, R. D. (2008). Access to care: Who pays for health care for the uninsured and underinsured? The Journal of Legal Medicine 29(1), 1-9. • United States Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. (2011). Health, United States, 2010 with special features on death and dying (DHHS Publication No. 2011-1232). Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus10.pdf • United States Government. (2011). Putting American’s in control of their health care. Retrieved from http://www.whitehouse.gov/health-carmeeting/proposal/whatsnew/other-improvements

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