Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is one of the most influential reforms in the sphere of medicine within the last decades. It was amended by the Health and Education Reconciliation Act and turned into a law in March 2010. The major broad objectives of the ACA was to secure access to care to all American citizens, contribute to improving of health outcomes and certainly to reduction of healthcare costs across the board. All these goals are so closely connected to each other that overall success of this policy is related to success of all three. Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act

The ACA demands specified employer-sponsored group health plans for provision of preventive care and screenings for women. Congress took the decision to delegate the responsibility for promulgating regulations for implementation of provision of the ACA to the Executive Branch. “The case arose after the Department of Health and Human Services, through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), proposed regulations which exempted religious organizations but not for-profit businesses.” (Hobson, 2014, p. 3).