Obama Administration Healthcare Act, has had impacts on Medicare and Medicaid.

It made

changes that have improved the program’s benefits. For example, the act reduced Medicare

payments to health care providers and extended the financial viability of the program. The

Affordable Care Act (ACA) closed the Medicare part D coverage gap that helped to reduce

prescription drug spending. Prior to the ACA, seniors who reached a certain level of prescription

drug spending faced a coverage gap, in which they had to pay the full cost of all prescription

drugs, before the plan’s catastrophic coverage kicked in. Expansion of Medicaid under ACA, has

led to better access to care and health outcomes for low-income individuals and their families

across the country. The other provision of ACA was the rule guaranteeing young adults the right

to stay on a parent’s insurance until age 26. “About 2.3 million young adults—a group that is

less likely to have an offer of employer-sponsored insurance than their older counterparts—

gained coverage under the ACA’s dependent coverage provision” (Rapfogel et al., 2021). These

are some of the benefits of the Obama Administration Healthcare Act that I think have impacted

a lot of people as they can be able to access medical care because of these benefits.

References

Rapfogel, N., Gee, E., & Calsyn, M. (2021, November 2). 10 ways the ACA has improved health

care in the past decade. Center for American

Progress. https://www.americanprogress.org/article/10-ways-aca-improved-health-care-

past-decade/