Conclusion

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act can be a complicated law to understand with all the provisions, rules, and regulations involved. Health care is an important element of a person’s life because everyone needs to visit a doctor at some point during their life time. People with children, single individuals, and retirees all need some type of protection to help pay for the cost of medical expenses, and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was created to help with that. In this paper, it explained what the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is, and what is does for American people on all levels. It also examined why the law was passed, goes into effect, and who is affected by it. It discussed shared responsibility and the penalties for non-compliance. In the paper, it tells how seasonal workers are counted for in health insurance plans and companies may not face penalty for them because their work is seasonal. The essential benefits and essential benefits package was explained, and what the exceptions are for offering them. Also talked about was the public and private health insurance marketplaces or the exchanges and what SHOP is and who a small employer is. The paper also discussed what a small business credit is and how much a tax credit is. It explains comparative effectiveness research and why it exits and who pays for it. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a law that we must live and change with as it becomes part of the American way.

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