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Essay Instructions: Choose a policy or mandate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.
Write a 1400-1750 word paper that follows that policy or mandate from inception to implementation.
Include the following:
1) Description of the process of how it was developed, who was involved in the development, and their respective roles in development.
2) Analysis of the policy's or mandate's impact on health care delivery, and consumers.

Please DO NOT use Wikepedia as a resource!
Please use scholarly based resources only.

Essay Instructions: Please prepare an original ten (10) page research paper (not counting the cover pager or footnotes), double-spaced, with at least five (7) references from independent professional journals, government and think tank reports, and independent academic researchers. All references must be cited using APA style.

The topic is the following: What is the likely impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on healthcare access, cost, and quality?

7 questions that should be addressed in this research are:

1. Who is newly covered and how is this achieved?
2. What are exchanges and how are different States approaching them?
3. What does the Medicaid program have to do with the ACA?
4. How will health insurance premiums be affected?
5. Will all aspects of the Law be implemented on schedule?
6. What variables are in play in the political debate over the impact of the ACA on cost, access, and quality of care?
7. On balance, is the ACA a good or bad law? Provide a clear, fact-based, non-emotional justification for your conclusion.


Keys points to look into: Read summaries of the ACA and official updates about the status of its implementation from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Follow the major debates through searching Google News and think about how different political perspectives may be affecting the interpretation and predications about different elements of the law. Then, applying what you have learned from your findings in at least five journal articles written after the passage of the ACA, develop a clear and compelling analysis of what you think its actual impact will be on access, cost, and quality of health care in the USA.

Please make sure the following is included in the paper:
• Paper presents a clear and correct understanding of the basic elements of the ACA
• Paper clearly address the impact of the ACA on the three major areas of access, cost, and quality in a logical and coherent fashion
• Paper demonstrates an understanding of the some of the challenges facing state and national government in the implementation of the Law

Please make sure it in APA style.

Essay Instructions: APA format
Double space
1" margins all around
Arial 12 pt font

1st five pages are a synopsis of the Affordable Care Act and Tax Reform/Issues of 2013.

Page 6-7 are to explain what is learned from this assignment and how issues discussed can impact the nation strategically.

References on page 8

Essay Instructions: Impact study

Topic: The impact of the Affordable Care Act on uncompensated care in a non-profit hospital

Thesis: There are substantial provisions within the Affordable Care Act that will have a beneficial effect on recovering unsustainable losses incurred through uncompensated care by a hospital that already provides ample charitable services.

Required sections (including a literature review):

Since this is an applied research activity, it is expected that students will use a wide variety of sources from the available research and operational literature. The important thing to know is that this project is data-driven; very few individual opinions or generalizations are to be used by the student. If you do insert opinions, you must have factual support for the opinion, either from the literature or from experience that can be backed up quantitatively.

This Draft Capstone Research Project Paper must include all of the following parts:

• Title Page
• Abstract
• Introduction/Organizational Review
• Problem/Issue/Improvement Project
• Analysis of Problem/Issue/Improvement Data
• Proposed Solutions and Anticipated Outcomes
• Reference List

Overall, all parts of the Paper - The Introduction/Organizational Review, Problem/Issue/Improvement Project, Analysis of Problem/Issue/Improvement Data, and the Proposed Solutions and Anticipated Outcomes sections, must include evidence of robust researching the literature by use of proper APA reference format, both in-text and in the Reference List at the end. The entire Draft paper must be in APA format.

These are the parts that I am in most need of:
• Introduction/ Organizational Review



• Problem/Issue/Improvement Project



• Analysis of Problem/Issue/Improvement data



• Proposed Solutions/Anticipated Outcomes