Financing Health Care in a Time of Insurance Restructuring

Financing Health Care in a Time of Insurance Restructuring” Please respond to the following:

1

Analyze the impact of the ACA on changes to health care insurance and coverage. Investigate the major implications of the legislation on the manner in which institutions now provide health care in the U.S.

2

Give your opinion on the impact of the ACA on patients’ access to care and the provision of services within the present day U.S. health care system. Provide a rationale for your response.

Please include the impact on Medicare and Medicaid and how access is for everyone.

3

Evaluate the affordability and accessibility of health care for the U.S. population since the inception of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. Provide support for your evaluation.

Remember, Medicare is something that is earned and paid into.  The more you make, the more you pay.  Medicaid is an entitlement.  Also, Medicare is a federal program and Medicaid is federally funded along with the state but is state managed.