The Affordable Care Act As It Relates To Veterans
According
to the patient protection and affordable care act, all American have the right
to quality and affordable health care (Cousins, n.d.). The priority of the Act
is to create an affordable health care system and to do this the Act is fully
paid by the congressional budget office to cover more that 94 percent of
American insurance. When it comes to covering the veterans, the department of
veterans’ affairs is responsible for ensuring that the men and women who are
considered the heroes of the nation receive adequate, safe and necessary health
care representing a real value (Va.gov, 2015). From my opinion, this is an
appropriate provision in the Act that guarantees the continued support for the
wounded. However, only some veterans receive free medication based on the
severity of their injuries and disabilities. The VA health care is not said to
be a medical insurance plan. Private health providers are billed based on the
medical care, prescriptions and supplies provided to veterans with non-service
conditions. Such an undertaking can be said to be discriminatory since Medicare
is not covered under the VA, but can be used to bill supplemental Medicare for
health insurance covered services (Cousins, n.d.).
Veterans
applying dot the VA medical care are prompted to provide all the information
about their insurance coverage for health. The information required includes
and is not limited to the insurance policy of their spouses. Such a move poses
a predicament to the coverage of veterans’ wellbeing. It should be necessary
that the VA be regarded as an insurance cover that covers the medical care of
the veterans and their families. Also, the essence of the payment made to the
VA being used to offset the dollar for dollar copay responsibility for the
veterans should be dropped. The provision for the veterans’ affairs department
should ensure a comprehensible and flexible approach towards catering for the
welfare of the veterans as well as the well-being of their families (Beaussier,
n.d.)
References
Beaussier, A. The
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: The Victory of 'Unorthodox Lawmaking'. SSRN Journal.
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Cousins, M. The Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act and Constitutional Challenges. SSRN Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.1718471
Va.gov,. (2015). Health
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Va.gov,. (2015).
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