Hcs 455 The Policy Process Part 1 Research Paper
The Policy Process, Part I
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HCS/455
November 18, 2013
Katherine Smith
The Policy Process, Part I Perhaps the biggest success in history came recently when healthcare reform advocates were able to spur the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (more commonly known as the ACA). The ACA worked in combination with the Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 in order to provide for a comprehensive overhaul of the healthcare landscape in the United States. The goal of the healthcare reforms was to deal with a number of deep flaws that were present within the healthcare system in the United States; one of the primary goals was to make healthcare insurance cost effective for those who did not have it. Other goals of the reform included bringing down healthcare costs, improving efficiency of Medicare, and implementing consumer protection statutes that would eliminate discriminatory actions which were common in the healthcare system (Arts, n.d.). Opponents of the healthcare reform efforts heavily criticized the legislative process that the bill went through, claiming that it was rushed and did not give representatives enough …show more content…
Some in the United States were so concerned about the passage of the ACA that they drove the debate to new heights. For example, conservative commentator Glenn Beck reached in comparison between the ACA and Nazi eugenics noting that “You have three people in the White House that are in love with eugenics are whatever it is you would call it today…Please dear God, read history. Please dear God read the truth of what these people have said in their own words, and ask yourself this one question: Do you trust these people enough to give them control over who lives and who dies? Because that’s what health care is when you have no other choice but to go to the state” (Beck,
Name
HCS/455
November 18, 2013
Katherine Smith
The Policy Process, Part I Perhaps the biggest success in history came recently when healthcare reform advocates were able to spur the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (more commonly known as the ACA). The ACA worked in combination with the Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 in order to provide for a comprehensive overhaul of the healthcare landscape in the United States. The goal of the healthcare reforms was to deal with a number of deep flaws that were present within the healthcare system in the United States; one of the primary goals was to make healthcare insurance cost effective for those who did not have it. Other goals of the reform included bringing down healthcare costs, improving efficiency of Medicare, and implementing consumer protection statutes that would eliminate discriminatory actions which were common in the healthcare system (Arts, n.d.). Opponents of the healthcare reform efforts heavily criticized the legislative process that the bill went through, claiming that it was rushed and did not give representatives enough …show more content…
Some in the United States were so concerned about the passage of the ACA that they drove the debate to new heights. For example, conservative commentator Glenn Beck reached in comparison between the ACA and Nazi eugenics noting that “You have three people in the White House that are in love with eugenics are whatever it is you would call it today…Please dear God, read history. Please dear God read the truth of what these people have said in their own words, and ask yourself this one question: Do you trust these people enough to give them control over who lives and who dies? Because that’s what health care is when you have no other choice but to go to the state” (Beck,