Affordable Care Act
The affordable Care Act (ACA) remains one of the most groundbreaking health reforms in the US history following the 1965 enactment of the Medicare and Medicaid policies. The march of 2010 witnessed the breakthrough when president Obama passed ACA into law requiring all the US residents to acquire the same in an endeavor to increase healthcare coverage to many citizens. The cost of healthcare in the US was recorded as the highest among many other nations making health insurance an affair of the rich exclusively. As a result many lives were lost since the poor were locked out of health covers. The policy not only focuses on the clients receiving health insurance and quality services, but also majors on health professionals including APRNs and DNPs in an endeavor to expand their scope of offering leadership on different levels to increase efficiency and safety of care. ACA core values remain provision of increased healthcare insurance coverage, improved access to preventive healthcare services and enhanced preventative health and wellness programs among others.
The Obama care main agenda lies with increasing the access to the citizens through structuring the process such that it is now state managed. In so doing, these plans get closer to the people and at a cheaper price more than the previous health insurance plans. It also allows for small businesses health options to purchase group insurance which makes it cheaper and more attainable to this specific group that was initially impossible previously. It also mandates employers with more than 50 workers to secure health covers for the employees. At the same time it allows children to stay within their parents health covers until they get to age 26 years. In so doing, children are covered for longer periods as they transition into the working population. Essentially, the Obama care serves its core value of being a prevention model to illnesses that the population may face. With increased health covers, more people become can seek preventable services such as the MMR vaccination. Increased MMR vaccination translates to limited spread of mumps and related diseases. It also increases the knowledge on the essence of vaccination that the patients will receive from their health providers since ACA empowers nurses to become leaders at different levels of service.
The Obama care besides provision of affordable health insurance, it remains a robust preventive care to the citizens. The insurance plan offers high access to preventive services that lacked in former health insurance services. In this manner, the poor people can access the preventive services that were initially provided for the wealthy in previous health covers. It also offers a nationwide outreach and education campaigns in an endeavor to advance health promotion to the people. Other health promotion strategies include annual wellness occasions tailored for Medicare beneficiaries whereby they are not required to copay. These services among others encourage more people to enjoy preventive services at low cost. Such promotions can be used to preach the effectiveness of MMR vaccination therefore increasing the number of people getting vaccinated. Its preventive health and wellness programs run throughout the year through offering grants schools and healthcare centers. Other grants are also given to wellness centers among others. These efforts go further in enhancing health promotion and prevention to enhance the lives of the people. With reduced cost, increased health promotion among others, the Obama care creates the fabric t advocate for MMR vaccination and through the grants, the vaccines can now get to the poor population who would otherwise not afford them in previous health plans.