Affordable Care Act: A review and discussion of its impact on healthcare today, and a primer for pharmacists

Abstract

In the midst of countless healthcare debates, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is written into legislation as a possible

solution to the United States's rising healthcare costs. Individualized into nine titles, the act sought to provide additional coverage to

millions of Americans while cutting down healthcare costs through numerous provisions effective into 2020. While the act has been

challenged publicly and privately by the states, many healthcare professionals today, let alone the average American, are unaware

and uneducated of what comprises the act, as well as the impact in which it has on the future of healthcare in the United States. With

an increasing role of patient care placed upon pharmacists today, an understanding of the PPACA allows us to provide extensive

answers to questions in which our patients may have.