Title VI provides new state and federal powers to reduce and prevent insurance abuse, including Medicare and Medicaid. Drug and medical product companies will have report most gifts. The Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute will study and support clinical outcomes on new therapies. Nursing homes...
In yet another effort by the Affordable Care Act to help regular Americans, this section establishes a National Healthcare Workforce Commission to plan for the needs of workers and to expand the healthcare workforce. Major expansions for community health centers are also supported. An exceptionally good source of information...
In the history of our nation, Title IV is the most purposeful and aspiring legislation ever written to prevent illness and disability. Data-based clinical prevention will be provided in many insurance policies without consumer cost. Chain restaurants must post the calorie content of their selections. An exceptionally good...
Title III: Improving the cost, quality, effectiveness, and compassion of health and mental health care in the US. This title improves the effectiveness, level of compassion, and quality of health and mental health care in the US. Medicare enrollees receive lower drug costs and preventive health...
Title II addresses Medicaid. Low income people are now eligible, not just those who are disabled or who are parents or are children. Medicaid grows as a national program with improved standards for eligibility, enrollment, and quality. An exceptionally good source of information on the Affordable...
Title I. Quality, Affordable Health Care for All Americans This title prevents health insurers from imposing pre-existing, annual benefit limits and lifetime benefit limits upon coverage. Most Americans are required to obtain coverage, and low income Americans will have subsidies to help the afford these policies. An...
Obamacare is the latest in a long history of attempts to address and repair the nation's health care problems. For example, the Nixon administration in the 1970s introduced the Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) as a proposed solution to the continued rise in the nation's health...
As a public service, Westside Behavioral Care in Denver, CO, is providing a series of blog posts explaining several important aspects of the Affordable Care Act (known colloquially as Obamacare). The primary source for these summaries is a seminar recorded on DVD and recently published by...
America’s inadequate mental health care was thrust into the spotlight in 2013 following the stabbing of Virginia State Sen. Creigh Deeds by his mentally ill son. The younger Deeds, who committed suicide after the attack, had undergone a psychiatric evaluation but was turned away by...