HSAD 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act, Farjana, Worth It
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4 (grading: obamacare care provides free or low-cost health insurance to over half of uninsured. Obamacare requires all major medical coverage to have minimum essential coverage, which includes essential health benefits such as free preventative services , limit deductibles and out-of-pocket maximums: obamacare has lead to new taxes. The tax affects many of us directly through the individual mandate and the employer mandate . People who are under these mandate must obtain health coverage or they will face penalties. In addition many people insurance has risen people because health insurance are obligated to cover people with pre-existing condition : electronic health records (ehr, drug rehab. Equipment leasing: ehr eliminates the physical transporting, and filing of charts, which makes ata available at all times. Terminology codes which allows for easier inputs and helps reduces errors. Also, ehrs allow prompts for preventative health screenings: the cost ehrs is often discourages physician from implementing it.