Instruction
Instructions: For this discussion you need to review the module chapters, and then read and watch the following resources discussing the build up and implementation of the Affordable Care Act. You will then create a response to the following question for your response post.
Question: A fundamental aim of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to ensure that every American can share in the promise of quality health care. Do you think this has been accomplished with the ACA, why or why not? Provide support from the sources to support your answer.
Your post must be substantial (3 paragraphs at least,) professionally presented, Including internal citations and references for your sources. Then you will respond to at least three of your classmates' posts in a substantial response
The Record- The While House, Barack Obama
The aim was simple: That every American could share in the promise of quality health care.
The groundwork was laid over nearly 100 years: Other administrations — from Presidents Truman to Nixon to Clinton —have tried and failed to immortalize this principal into American law.
Then, after nearly a century of work, an improbable piece of legislation with a lot of heart behind it ended its journey on the President's desk on March 23, 2010.
Since then, health reform in America has been the law of the land and after more than five years under this law 16.4 million Americans have gained health coverage. 129 million people who could have otherwise been denied or faced discrimination now have access to coverage. Health care prices have risen at the slowest rate in nearly 50 years. And it will live on as a legacy achievement not just of this administration, but of all those who fought for it for so many years.
Improving Health for All Americans
President Obama promised that he would make quality, affordable health care not a privilege, but a right. After nearly 100 years of talk, and decades of trying by presidents of both parties, that's exactly what he did. Today, 20 million more adults gained access to health coverage. We've driven the uninsured rate below 10 percent — the lowest level since we started keeping records — and built stronger, healthier communities through advancements in public health, science, and innovation.
Data shows that the private insurance spending per enrollee was 6.5% in 2000 to 2005, was 3.4% from 2005 to 2010, and 1.5% from 2010 to 2015. The data also shows that the uninsured rate in 2010 was 16% and in 2016 was 8.9%.
For more information, and to watch the short video, visit: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-record/health-care