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Running Head: OBAMACARE AND MEDICARE 1

OBAMACARE AND MEDICARE

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Obamacare is also referred to as Affordable Care Act or Patient protection and

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

Health Policy Fellows, 2008).


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References

Ranawat, A., Nunley, R. M. & Washington Health Policy Fellows. (2008). Issues Facing

America: Medicare. Retrieved on 24 October 2013, from

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

surgeon. J Am Acad Orthop Surg, (15)76-86.

Tate, N. J. (2012). ObamaCare survival guide. West Palm Beach, FL: Humanix Books.

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