Discuss the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), also known as the healthcare reform, which was passed in 2010
a. What advantages are it intended to give those people who previously did not have affordable healthcare access?
b. How does it affect those with healthcare coverage already? Or does it affect them at all? Who does it affect, if anyone?
c. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this act or program?
Students' answers should include the following:
a. It is designed to give healthcare to those who do not have healthcare or had inadequate healthcare at an affordable cost. Discussion here could include if this is fair to make it mandatory for all citizens to have medical insurance or not.
b. As it is set up at the moment, there should be little to no changes in those previously covered, but it will not be fully implemented until 2014, so it remains to be seen as to the full effect. Discussion here could also include what has been seen in the lives of students and their families or of those they know at a local level. They could also discuss how they perceive the changes to impact them and their community on a local and state level.
c. Advantages seen would be to decrease the control the insurance companies have over what is covered and not covered by them and giving more coverage to fixed income citizens as well as senior citizens. Here, discussion could be if PPACA is fully implemented as it is perceived, will it have the intended impact on the individuals it was designed for and will it decrease the control insurance companies have on what is covered and the percentage of coverage for an individual claim as they now have.
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