The document summarizes the planning, implementation, and evaluation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). It discusses how the ACA was formed in 2010 in response to rising healthcare costs in the US. Planning for universal healthcare began in the 1980s and various reforms were proposed over the decades, with Massachusetts passing its own healthcare law in 2006 that served as a precedent. Lobbying and meetings from 2008-2010 helped build support and lay the groundwork for provisions in the ACA, including the individual mandate and health insurance exchanges. The document begins to discuss how policymakers strengthened the health insurance marketplaces as part of planning and implementation of the ACA.

1. HCA 498 UA GRANTHAM Affordable Care Act Research Paper
Hello. I’m done you can check it out.Running head: AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
(ACA)Affordable Care Act (ACA)Student’s nameInstitutional Affiliation1AFFORDABLE CARE
ACT (ACA)2Affordable Care Act (ACA)The Affordable Care Act (ACA) often nicknamed
Obamacare is a federal statuessigned in to law by President Obama in March of 2010. The
statue was formed as partof The patient protection and affordable Care measures instituted
to implementhealthcare reforms in the US. The Act was intended to expand insurance
cover,emphasize wellness and prevention, ensure consumer protection, and improve
thequality and performance of the healthcare industry. This act was in direct response
torising costs of healthcare in the United States. This paper attempts at examining
theplanning consideration, implementation, and evaluation of the ACA.PlanningThe quest
for delivering universal healthcare in the United States began in 1989with the proposal by
The Heritage Foundation to institute as single-player healthcare.Ever since various political
faction continued to explore how to implement individualmandate together with provision
of private insurance subsidies. In 1993 PresidentClinton proposed for an healthcare reform
bill that mandated employers to provide theiremployees with health insurance (Barbaresco,
Courtemanche,& Qi, 2015). However,the plan did not go forward as some legislators were
concerned with provision foremployers to provide health insurance. The Clinton
administration was however able tosecure a compromise with the enactment of State
Children’s Health Insurance Programin 1997.In 2006 the state of Massachusetts was the
first state in the US to enact a statue thatimplemented an insurance exchange and individual
mandate on insurance cover. TheseAFFORDABLE CARE ACT (ACA)3precedents laid the
early ground for the enactment of ACA. Since 2008 there were aseries of meetings geared
towards implementing healthcare reforms (Koh& Sebelius,2010). The issues discussed in
these meetings became the foundation of ACA.The guaranteed issues, however, required
concerted efforts in lobbying forcommunity rating and individual mandate. The ensuing
negotiations attracted lobbyistto woo support for some of the radical provisions such as
individual mandate. Theintense lobbying did not only help in garnering support for the bill
but also preparedstakeholders to implement the reforms (Sommers et al., 2015).Policy
makers kicked off planning for the Act by strengthening and supportingHealth Insurance
Marketplaces. The federal government launched public plan optionsto enhance competit…