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OBAMACARE AND MEDICARE 2
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Affordable care Act. It is a act that had the most significant influence on the United States
health sector since the 1965’s Medicaid and Medicare. The act main agenda was to enhance
the affordability of the health insurance and the overall quality of the health services. That
could be achieved by reducing citizens who are uninsured through expansion of the private
and public insurance cover along with reducing the expenditure on health for the government
and the individuals (Tate, 2012). The Obamacare act is an integrated delivery system because
it has many aspects that are put together. These include availability of medical insurance,
quality of medical services, and alternative of buying the insurance cover among others. It
will be effective because its policies focused on the weaknesses linked with Medicare and
Medicaid.
According to Sharan, et, al, (2007), among the major problem affecting Medicare is
the problem of reimbursement issues that have become very complex and thus making the
cost of medical services to high while adversely affecting the quality of the problem. This
problem will be solved in the next 10 years because of the introduction of the Accountable
Care Organizations that are a product of the Obamacare. There have been fundamental flaws
that have made the policy makers to try to implement policies to address the flaws such as on
the sustained growth rate and physical fee schedule. This problem will continue to influence
the medicare in the next 10 years because the sustained growth rate is cumulative physicians
have limited control over the expenditure on drugs. The third problem is the rate of
reimbursement on the physicians. There is not fixed sustained growth rate, therefore with
declining rate of reimbursement on practitioners, then they shall have to increase the cost of
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their services, lest the government establishes a policy that will ensure the physicians are
adequately compensated, the problem of quality and cost of medical services will continue to
influence the economy in the next 10 years and beyond (Ranawat, Nunley & Washington
References
Ranawat, A., Nunley, R. M. & Washington Health Policy Fellows. (2008). Issues Facing
http://www.aaos.org/news/aaosnow/aug08/reimbursement1.asp
Sharan, A. D, et al (2007). Current issues in health policy: A primer for the orthopaedic
Tate, N. J. (2012). ObamaCare survival guide. West Palm Beach, FL: Humanix Books.