Week 5: Financial Health Care and the Affordable Care Act – Discussion 5.1: Impact of the Affordable Care Act

Description
Week 5 Reading Assignments

Course Content
Discussion 5.1: Impact of the Affordable Care Act

Directions
Respond to the following questions:
1. Compare and contrast the ways that health care differs from other consumer purchases.
2. Analyze the challenges of a market-driven healthcare system. How can public and private insurances control premiums and co-payments? Use two to four sources from this week’s required readings to support your initial post.
3. Compare and contrast the requirements for reimbursement between private insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid. How will these differences impact your practice as an APRN?
Use two to four sources from this week’s required readings to support your initial post.
Post your original response by the end of Day 3. Then, by the end of Day 6, respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts.

Week 5: Financial Health Care and the Affordable Care Act
Required Readings

Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professionals
Chapter 7: Affordable Care Act (ACA) Reframed and Uncertain
Chapter 8: Healthcare Quality
Chapter 9: Healthcare Costs: Follow the Money
Chapter 10: Private Health Insurance Market
Gale, A. H. (2016). The hospital as a factory and the physician as an assembly line worker. Missouri Medicine, 113(1), 7–9.

Required Resources

CrashCourse. (2016, April 6). The economics of healthcare: Crash course econ #29 (10:25 minutes) [Video]. YouTube.
The Economics of Healthcare Transcript
TEDx Talks. (2018). Healthcare: Is it a right or a luxury? Tarik Sammour, TEDx Adelaide (13:44 minutes) [Video]. YouTube.
Healthcare: Is it a Right or a Luxury? Transcript
Kaiser Family Foundation. (2012, April 24). Policy and political implications of the Supreme Court case on the Affordable Care Act (1:32:13 minutes) [Video]. YouTube.
Affordable Care Act Transcript

Description
Week 5 Reading Assignments

Course Content
Assignment 5.1: Outline of Health Care Policy Project
Discussion 5.1: Impact of the Affordable Care Act

Directions
As a future nurse practitioner and/or nurse leader, you will oversee care for patients with many types of insurance plans and prescribe treatments that include follow-up care/therapy and prescriptions. What would you recommend as options or strategies to improve access to care? Search online “barriers to health care in your” state. Include in this discussion specific access issues that patients and providers find in your area. Days 4–6: Compare and contrast access issues across the states presented by your classmates in your follow-up posts to the class.
Post your original response by the end of Day 3. Then, by the end of Day 6, respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts.

Week 5: Financial Health Care and the Affordable Care Act
Required Readings

Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professionals
Chapter 7: Affordable Care Act (ACA) Reframed and Uncertain
Chapter 8: Healthcare Quality
Chapter 9: Healthcare Costs: Follow the Money
Chapter 10: Private Health Insurance Market
Gale, A. H. (2016). The hospital as a factory and the physician as an assembly line worker. Missouri Medicine, 113(1), 7–9.

Required Resources

CrashCourse. (2016, April 6). The economics of healthcare: Crash course econ #29 (10:25 minutes) [Video]. YouTube.
The Economics of Healthcare Transcript
TEDx Talks. (2018). Healthcare: Is it a right or a luxury? Tarik Sammour, TEDx Adelaide (13:44 minutes) [Video]. YouTube.
Healthcare: Is it a Right or a Luxury? Transcript
Kaiser Family Foundation. (2012, April 24). Policy and political implications of the Supreme Court case on the Affordable Care Act (1:32:13 minutes) [Video]. YouTube.
Affordable Care Act Transcript