The health care reform debate between 2008 and 2010 led to the passage of Patient Protection and Affordable Act, was reminiscent of opportunities for reform that have occurred on a cyclical basis throughout American history. ... (Rich, Cheung, Lurvey, 81) Signed under the title of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the law included multiple provisions that would take effect over a matter of years, including the expansion of Medicaid eligibility, the establishment of health insurance exchanges and prohibiting health insurers from denying coverage due to pre-existing conditions. .....

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As result of enforcement of Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010. ... Affordable Care Act: This is the hallmark legislation (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) which was signed in March 2010. The general public is still not well informed about the specific provisions of the act in view of its rhetoric and complexity. ... The Affordable Care Act creates these new marketplaces which the physicians have to choose from. ... The patient-centered medical homes are supported by the Act, which can be compared to Britain's health care system. ...

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The topic of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has been a very popular discussion in businesses and homes throughout America. There is a varying opinion about whether or not this act will have a positive or negative effect. ... There are many different opinions about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as Obamacare. ...

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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and Electronic Privacy and Security With the enactment of the Health Insurance Portability and Procurement Act (HIPAA) in 1996, many issues surrounding the electronic privacy and security of protected health information have come under scrutiny. ... "The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-191), often referred to as "HIPAA" or the "Kennedy/Kassebaum" law after its lead cosponsors, Senators Nancy Landon Kassebaum and Edward Kennedy, was passed by Congress and signed by President Clinton in August, 1996." ......

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These workers lack access to social services, healthcare and have little protection from labor laws, even though they are a critical component to providing healthy food. ... The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that ,"300,000 farmworkers suffer acute pesticide poisoning each year" (Hanson, Donohoe 5). ... It is also really difficult for workers to get to health clinics, "The migrant health care system of approximately 400 federally authorized clinic sites (funded under the Public Health Service Act) reaches only 12 to 15 percent of the migrant population annually" ...

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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ( HIPAA) to provide the first comprehensive Federal protection for the privacy of personal health information. ... So a key part of the act also increased and standardized confidentiality and security of health data. ... HIPPA is the most far reaching legislative act passed since ERISA. ... HIPPA is a very important act, and must be followed very strictly to ensure that a patients info...

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The great controversy with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act lies with this mandate. ... The government is saying that the federal government has a duty to tell the individual citizen that it must act, and that is different from what we have in previous cases and that changes the relationship of the federal government to the individual in the very fundamental way" (ABC Local 7). ...

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Protection of society is another essential service that governments should provide and the larger the role the government plays in protecting society, in turn, the safer society will be. Privatizing protection (i.e. water testing) places too much social responsibility on a private company interested in profits. ... Education, health care, and protection are areas were governments should play great roles and governments need to escape from increasing privatization because it does not act in the best interests of society but instead are more suitable for those who can...

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Congress had a rational basis for concluding that the minimum coverage provision is essential to the Affordable Care Act's larger reforms to the national markets in health care delivery and health insurance" (Biskupic). ... Most legal experts and other litigants involved in healthcare lawsuits predict that the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that Obama signed last year will be determined in the U.S. ...

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Obama's Affordable Healthcare Act reform began on August 1, 2012, reigniting the uproar from religious institutions. ... The ventilation and air-conditioning business argues that their rights given by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the First Amendment's protection of religious freedom were violated. ... Judge Kane's ruling was based on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, that states that any "substantial burden" placed on religious beliefs having a "compelling government interest" and be the "least restrictive means" of advancing that interest. ... Mitt...

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Beneath the introduction is a list of policy advances that the government has made, as well as needed policy changes, such as ending the Racial Profiling Act and implementing the Violence Against Women Act's nondiscrimination provisions.3 The author targets the directed audience by formatting their report in a clear and precise way, which is necessary because, with policy reform, it's important that to be clear with what changes need to be made. ... While laws such as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) have prohibited se...

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The Patient Protection and Affordability Act, also known as ObamaCare, is a law recently passed that outlines the regulations of health care coverage. ... One of the greatest issues for the health care act to overcome is basic human nature. ... According to Riczo, most people have not done enough research into the actual law behind the act to form an opinion on whether it will be in the best interest of Americans. ...

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Research done through several sources revealed that in 2010, our Congress did pass the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act which requires all U.S. citizens to have medical insurance; as known as Obama Care. ...

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