Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

complete an 800-1000 word (not including title and references pages) individual paper relating to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the current policy controversies surrounding the healthcare system in the United States.

The charge is to focus on four major themes: 1) impact on nursing, 2) impact on uninsured individuals, 3) impact of insured individuals, and 4) impact on health care economics at the local and national levels. Students are expected to apply concepts and analytical understanding gained in course readings and videos to address these topics.

Follow APA format. There are citation formatting rules for your textbook that you have probably not encountered in any of your other classes. The textbook for this course is an edited book which you have had experience with in another class, however the textbook chapters for this class are mostly reprinted articles and the citations are formatted differently. Please contact me if you have any questions.

Assignments are to be submitted in conjunction with Turnitin.

*No more than 15% of your paper should be found from online/other sources according to Turnitin’s plagiarism report.

A minimum of five references should be used. Three of these sources should be from a peer-reviewed article. Avoid the use of undated references. This document must be submitted using APA format. After the paper is graded, edit the paper and place it in your portfolio.

See the PPACA Paper Rubric for grading details attached. PLEASE REFER TO RUBRIC ATTACHED WHEN WORKING ON THE PAPER!!! THANK YOU!!!!

Answer preview………

Impact of Nursing

The Affordable Care Act is a federal statute that was created in 2010 to bring about many reforms on the healthcare system of the United States. It was signed into law by Barack Obama, and this explains why it is often referred to in the media as ObamaCare (Roger, 2016). Before it was enacted, the cost of healthcare was increasing at an alarming rate. The increased cost of healthcare, coupled with the increased cost of healthcare insurance meant that there were many people across the country who could no longer afford insurance for their medical needs. The act has been cited to be one of the most significant changes in the healthcare system since the 1960s.

APA 1178 words