Health Care Law: H.R. 728: Title VII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act of 2019

Health Care Delivery Models and Nursing Practice
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The United States of America has a population of more than 333 million people, which is expected to be roughly 373 million in 2053. The nation is backed by one of the most intricate healthcare systems in the world, as it consists of interlinking relationships among healthcare providers, payers, and patients receiving care. The country’s healthcare system constantly evolves as time goes by. Public and private healthcare sectors acquire payment from private and public financial bodies. The hospitals mainly receive payment via a diagnostic-connected group (DRG) that assigns setoff payment for a given issue or treatment sequence. To ensure that Americans enjoy prime health as individuals or as a population, they need to have the remuneration of optimal healthcare services that are effectively and efficiently synchronized within a solid public health system.
The U.S. health system does not have an identical system and only is exercised under gradually adjusting legislation. Over the past few decades, different laws have been introduced by the federal government to try to find solutions to several problems affecting the system's effectiveness. One of the healthcare reform laws that has been enacted and transformed the U.S. healthcare system was the 2010’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care (the Obamacare or Affordable Care Act). The legislation asserts that healthcare insurance organizations should deliver a given level of coverage with every single plan (Davalon, 2022). Obamacare covered several coverages, including emergency care, hospitalization, pediatric care, preventative care, laboratory services, and mental health care.
Over the last five years, the country has experienced the introduction of other healthcare regulations. The H.R. 728: Title VII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act of 2019 is a popular care legislation in the United States. The bill aimed to enhance public nursing education, retention, and practice. The law proposes the development of the grant to build career ladder programs responsible for assisting the healthcare employees like Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) to become baccalaureate-ready registered nurses (RNs) or nurses with graduate nursing education (McMullen & Travers, 2023). Title VIII proposes that the programs should be initiated for vulnerable communities ensuring they also receive financial aid.
The administration of former President Donald Trump also introduced various changes to the Medicaid and Medicare programs. The 2019 declaration of the Primary Care First model aimed at simplifying the payment of primary care doctors (Tikkanen et al., 2020). As of 2020, other changes were enacted in the Affordable Care Act. The administration of Trump halted various consumer protections via executive and regulatory actions. The Trump administration removed personal mandates and financial penalties for failing to have health insurance (Tikkanen et al., 2020). Furthermore, the management declared its objective of addressing high healthcare prices, particularly prescription medicat...