Healthcare Reform

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Healthcare reform has impacted heavily on patients , nurses and the community at large . The government sponsored health insurance ensures that patients have access to affordable health care insurance . Patients do not have to rely on their employer for health insurance which is usually too costly and determined by the employer . Patients have the ability to choose health insurance which is affordable to them and at the same time make a choice for the doctor to provide care with no

br government interference (Obama-Biden , 2010 . For patients with preexisting conditions like asthma or diabetes , the healthcare reforms are an opportunity to acquire care without discrimination . With the reforms , a patient can acquire insurance through their employer (retaining the old health insurance provider ) or choose to have government sponsored health insurance

The community also gets guaranteed health insurance coverage . The business community experiences reduced costs of health care with the reforms . Health care professionals such as the nurses are also mandated to provide high quality care with reporting of medical errors in the reform policy . In addition , nurses will put more of their time to taking care of the patients as most of the work , which takes most of their time , is made electronic making it quicker and efficient (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation , 2009

An increasing number of patients with preexisting conditions such as diabetes and high blood pressure call for population-based reforms . This reform strategy is more of preventive than curative and is...