NOTE Your response must be limited to FIVE (5) pages. Be su
NOTE: Your response must be limited to FIVE (5) pages. Be sure to respond to each part of each question.Be sure to use citations to support your assertions. You may citerelevant assigned readings in your response and/or information you findon your own, so long as they are from a reputable source. Required reading for this reportWhat are the constitutional bases for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act?1) Summary: SCOTUS Affordable Care Act Decision (Constitutional Bases)What’s in the law?1) Who has to pay a penalty?2) Outline of the law’s major features, provided by HHS.gov 3) Impact: shopping the health insurance exchangeWhat are some observed effects of the law to date?1) Youth Enrollment & the ACA2) The Coverage Gap: Uninsured Poor Adults in States that Do Not Expand Medicaid3) Where States Stand on Medicaid Expansion4) Cities Bear the Costs of Medicaid Expansion Opt-Outs5) Obamacare: State-Level Economic Impact on Taxpayers (Nonpartisan)6) In TN, Opting Out of Medicaid Expansion Makes for Lousy Taxpayer ROI7) Listen: Rural Regions Lobby for State Medicaid Expansion (transcript also available on site)8) Obamacare’s Mandate Melt-Down (NY Post Op-Ed)9) The Obamacare Success Stories You Haven’t Been Hearing About (LA Times Op-Ed)The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), or “Obamacare”for short, a piece of legislation birthed in controversy and plagued bya difficult rollout, is still poorly understood and received by manyAmericans. Some have a vague idea of what is in the law, but very littlecomprehension of how the various parts were designed to functiontogether or how those parts affect particular individuals. Many alsodon’t understand the health insurance exchange concept or how to “shop”for insurance that is compliant with the law and still affordable. Thatprocess is further complicated by the decision of many states to opt outof building their own state-based health insurance exchanges orimplement a largely Obamacare-funded expansion of Medicaid to cover theuninsured who don’t make enough to purchase ACA-compliant plans andaren’t Medicaid-eligible under current state-specific criteria. Due tothe relative youth of the law, its initial effects – onindividuals/patients, hospitals, physicians, states, and everyone’swallets – are still being recorded and decoded. After reading theassigned articles, write a position paper about what you learned aboutthe law. Please be sure to respond to the following questions in yourpaperWhat are the legal bases given by the SCOTUS opinion, supporting Congress’ power to pass the law? Explain.Do you think anything is missing from the law, or should not have been included? Explain.Explain how the indirect scheme proposed by the law proposes to bring down costs and improve quality of care. Can the legislation achieve that goal, in view of the observedimpacts and effects of the law to date on states and their citizens? Whyor why not? Explain.How do you think the changes in healthcare delivery andreimbursement brought on by Obamacare, in conjunction with thewidespread use of EHRs and the growing capacity for EHRs to meaningfullyexchange health information between providers/practices/hospitals andfederal agencies, will impact or change the health information manager’srole? ExplainThe Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), or “Obamacare”for short, a piece of legislation birthed in controversy and plagued bya difficult rollout, is still poorly understood and received by manyAmericans. Some have a vague idea of what is in the law, but very littlecomprehension of how the various parts were designed to functiontogether or how those parts affect particular individuals. Many alsodon’t understand the health insurance exchange concept or how to “shop”for insurance that is compliant with the law and still affordable. Thatprocess is further complicated by the decision of many states to opt outof building their own state-based health insurance exchanges orimplement a largely Obamacare-funded expansion of Medicaid to cover theuninsured who don’t make enough to purchase ACA-compliant plans andaren’t Medicaid-eligible under current state-specific criteria. Due tothe relative youth of the law, its initial effects – onindividuals/patients, hospitals, physicians, states, and everyone’swallets – are still being recorded and decoded. After reading theassigned articles, write a position paper about what you learned aboutthe law. Please be sure to respond to the following questions in yourpaperWhat are the legal bases given by the SCOTUS opinion, supporting Congress’ power to pass the law? Explain.Do you think anything is missing from the law, or should not have been included? Explain.Explain how the indirect scheme proposed by the law proposes to bring down costs and improve quality of care. Can the legislation achieve that goal, in view of the observedimpacts and effects of the law to date on states and their citizens? Whyor why not? Explain.How do you think the changes in healthcare delivery andreimbursement brought on by Obamacare, in conjunction with thewidespread use of EHRs and the growing capacity for EHRs to meaningfullyexchange health information between providers/practices/hospitals andfederal agencies, will impact or change the health information manager’srole? Explain