Nursing Policy Changes in New Jersey: Affordable Care Act

Nursing Policy Change: Affordable Health Care Act
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Introduction
Policy change is very critical in creating an effective healthcare system provided by the nurses. The nurses are mandated with managerial, administrative and supervisory duties and all these responsibilities require sufficient leadership skills. Therefore, the policies guiding nursing profession should be adequately addressed in order to meet the modern healthcare needs among the nursing profession. The policy change in the nursing profession involves working closely with the legislature members, state and national nurses associations and the introduction of new bills or change of the current laws in the state or the federal government (American Nephrology Nurses Association, 2016).
Affordable Care Act
In New Jersey, there needs to be massive structural changes in the healthcare sector so as to increase the number of insured residents. The Affordable Care Act and the Medicaid are the policies that need to be changed in order to cater for the long-term services. The residents, state, legislative and the federal government have decided to develop policy changes in the healthcare in order to coordinate and deliver healthcare services to the residents of New Jersey. The stakeholders in the healthcare sector in New Jersey such as; local community leaders, nurses, locals and other medics should design a policy that will help coordinate healthcare delivery to low-income residents as well as other major changes in Medicaid (American Nephrology Nurses Association, 2016).
Reasons as to why this Policy needs to be put in place.
The increase in the cost of healthcare in New Jersey State has led to the need to introduce changes to the Affordable Care Act with an aim of providing quality healthcare services to the low-income residents. The low-income residents of New Jersey need to be given affordable, quality healthcare services through formulating policies that will increase the number of insured residents. The policy will protect lower-income residents in New Jersey from increasing healthcare costs and high medical bills through the proposed legislation (Mack, 2016).
The Exact Wording of the Bill
In New Jersey State, all proposed changes in policies take the recommended steps as the bill becomes into effective law. The main aim of the changes in the Affordable Care Act and the Medicaid is to design a healthcare policy that will make healthcare affordable to the low-income residents. All the stakeholders involved in the policy change should be in a position to establish the effectiveness of the changes introduced in the Affordable Care Act and the introduction of Medicaid. Therefore, after establishing the effectiveness of the policy changes the legal policy needs to be drafted (Mack, 2016).
The bill introduced in the legislature to be amended to facilitate the changes in the Affordable Care Act policy should be given a title that is legally recognized in the constitution. All the contents that are to be changed needs to be clearly defined and the draft should contain various sections and sub-sections. The bill should also indicate the exact date when the bill will b...