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Health care regulations
A list of laws and regulations designed to control and regulate the health care system.
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Affordable Care Act (ACA)
Health care; Health care regulations
Also called, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the ACA is a United States federal statute signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. Together with the Health ...
employer mandate
Health care; Health care regulations
A federal requirement that companies with 50 or more full-time employees or full-time equivalents must offer medical coverage that is "affordable" and provides minimum value to full-time employees ...
Medicaid expansion
Health care; Health care regulations
The ObamaCare law requires the expansion of the federal-state safety-net program to cover more low-income people. Medicaid is expected to account for about half the 25 million uninsured people who, ...
individual mandate
Health care; Health care regulations
A federal requirement under the Affordable Care Act that everyone in the United States should have health insurance, either through an employer, a government program or by buying his own plan, ...
essential health benefits
Health care; Health care regulations
Basic health benefits that most health insurance plans will have to cover starting in 2014 as part of the ObamaCare implementation. The Affordable Care Act ensures health plans offered in the ...
healthywealthytips- wheezing or asthma remedies
Health care; Health care regulations
Wheezing or Asthma refers to the rattling sound or the whistling sound heard while breathing from the chest, which is caused due to the obstruction in the air passage.
willingness-to-pay (WTP)
Health care; Health care regulations
A technique which aims to assign a value to health benefits by directly eliciting individual preferences in the views of samples of the general public who are asked how much they would be prepared to ...
