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What does Obamacare mean for those already with health insurance?

by Phillip Presley Student

Speech enabled EHR can follow voice commands, rendering use of the keyboard and mouse unnecessary.  The software has taken the medical industry by storm.  Today, there are thousands of medical professionals that use this software regularly.

An electronic health record is a record of health related information about an individual.  It conforms to all the nationally recognized health standards.  You can create and manage the health records and share them online with other medical professionals all over the world.  

Speech enabled EHR has shown to provide many benefits.  Using this system, medical professionals have been able to improve the quality of healthcare.  Gathering and conveying information has become faster and more efficient.  The system encourages participation from the patients.  Coordination between different doctors has been made easier.  The system has also cut down on many costs.

Let’s have a look at the ObamaCare plan for health insurance.  ObamaCare is a health care reform that refers to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.  This is a signed, legal bill that promotes the healthcare industry.  The ultimate aim of ObamaCare is to provide affordable health insurance to all citizens of the U.S.  It is not, however, a replacement for private insurance.

As of today, the plan has given health access to 47 million women across the United States. The advantages of ObamaCare include free preventive care and the supplying of cheaper drugs. Today, 54 million Americans have benefited from the program by gaining access to preventive services.  The best part of the plan is that it does not ration health care.  It also helps to reduce the growth of healthcare spending.  ObamaCare provides insurance related benefits.  Under this plan, you don’t have to pay more than 8% of the annual income on insurance.

ObamaCare ensures that patients don’t have to shell any out-of-pocket expenses for colonoscopies and mammograms.  These two processes are commonly used in preventive healthcare.  There was also a new Medicare value-based purchasing program introduced, in which hospitals can either gain or lose 1% of their Medicare funding, as decided by the quality vs. quantity system. The program grades hospitals in terms of quality care provided to patients who have suffered from heart ailments.

The insurance reform plan has helped to get millions of citizens insured each year.  There is no discrimination; everyone is treated equally irrespective of caste, color and creed.  Citizens don’t have to leave their current healthcare plan in order to join ObamaCare.  The plan has served many Americans suffering through poverty well.  It has served around 15 million of the country’s poorest people. The plan stresses that payments related to Medicaid should be raised to the same level as those related to Medicare.

The plan makes it illegal for health insurance companies to terminate any insurance contract unless it involves some form of customer fraud.


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Denn Mark Innovator  Internet marketing
And drives up insurance cost, you should write the negatives with the positives or you seem biased. The problem with writing about politic's lol
Jun 15th 2013 12:12   
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