Discussion: PPACA and Your Take-Away

Now that you have gone through this introductory class of the U.S. healthcare system, post a substantial response to the following:
Part I:

The PPACA is considered the most comprehensive federal law on health care since the inception of Medicare and Medicaid.

Examine three key elements of the act that you believe will be the most positive for the American country (in your examination, you must include reasons behind your selection of these three elements).
Examine three key elements of the act that you believe will be the most negative for the American country (in your examination, you must include reasons behind your selection of these three elements).

Part II:

Examine the future of health care in the United States.
- Look back to your own definition of the healthcare system posted in Week One. How would you define it now after studying health care throughout this course? Post both definitions and examine the differences.
- Examine where you see the U.S. healthcare system in the next 5 or 10 years.
- Describe any potential reforms, research, suggestions for improvements, etc.

Note: The ACA is not considered a potential reform. It is already law. The reforms to be described in Part II should be those that have not yet occurred.

APA format and no less than 350 word count.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.