Administrator and Affordable Care Act HA499: Health Care Administration Capstone
Hospital Administrator and Affordable Care ActAffordable care Act is a comprehensive health reform Act of 2010, as signed by presidentBarrack Obama, and famous as Obamacare, formally known as the patient protection andaffordable care Act. It was a deliberate effort to expand health care insurance to millions ofuninsured population. It was a step towards near universal legally guaranteed health coverageand shared responsibility – an extension of Medicaid eligibility. The Act sought to bring to anend discrimination, disability and favoritism in health provision that favored those who werewell up. For the administrator, it is a heavy toll on tapping on the gains it encompasses anddealing with the challenges, it presents, in a bid to comply as well as attain well-intendedoutcomes.The hospital administrators are the people upon whose docket the interpretation,implementation and supervision of policy and rules falls. The commencement of the Act meantthus that the administration had the onus of understanding, preparing for the Act, briefing itsstaff, implementation and ensuring it was well adhered to (USC Price, 2015). They shoulder theburden of internalizing the contents of the Act but also of facilitating it within their jurisdiction.They also carry the responsibility of entangling the challenges that the Act bring about. They arethe referee who ensure the rules as stipulated in the Act form the basis of patient’s carethenceforth. They had to evaluate the hospital current policy and align it with the new stipulationso that processes may not conflict and result to penalties as the act envisages. The administratorwas also to be keen to employ strategies as Okayed in the Act to reduce the burden and cost ofpatient’s care going forward