Health Care Utilization Paper
HCS 235
Abstract
The new health care act that was signed into law recently has come under fire by many who believe that this will not help U.S. citizens get access to the healthcare they have been fighting to get in the past. This paper will discuss the expansions or inhibitions it has caused for everyday people to have access to care. How might changes to access influence utilization? What the concept of universal health care may be and whether it contrasts or reflects with it. My own personal experience with heath care expansion has not really changed. But I did notice certain things about “Obamacare” that would keep me from utilizing this new health care.
Health Care Utilization Paper
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law on March 23 2010, it started the most known change in American history since Medicare started back in 1965. It has become the most controversial change and even though it was created to help millions of Americans, a lot of people have condemned it since conformists do not like any involvement of the federal government into the health care system. Because of the new act that President Obama signed into law, no one can be turned down for health care due to a medical condition.
A vast majority of leaders in health care and health policy think the new reform law will successfully expand access to affordable health insurance to the millions of Americans who currently do not have access to it. Even though from the beginning this reform was opposed; it does create opportunities for individuals to access health care insurance which includes preventative service, immunizations, dependents now being able to stay on their parents insurance until the age of 26, and people no longer being denied due to preexisting health conditions.
This law was designed to be executed over a period of time but there were certain phases of the law executed immediately after the law was...