Nursing Careers can be Affected by the CARE Act, Learn About it Here
Americans enjoy access to the finest, most up-to-date and most effective health care system on the planet. With the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, (PPACA) the U.S. Congress has enacted changes in the administration and management of our health system so that it no longer limits or denies access to health care for certain classes of Americans. When the President signed the Act into law on March 23, 2010, he set into motion a series of changes, scheduled to go into effect starting from July 1, 2010 and continuing over the next eight years. The 12-year extension and reinforcement of Medicare, the expansion of Medicaid eligibility, and prohibiting the denial of insurance coverage and claims based on pre-existing conditions are among the far-reaching provisions of the Act that seek to bring our system closer to providing affordable universal health care to all Americans.
If the demographic bubble of aging baby-boomers moving through our society was not enough to swell the ranks of health care consumers, making health services available to the approximately 30% of people who do not have it now will dramatically increase the demand for nursing services that are already in critically short supply. As a result, nursing, at all levels, is one of the very few career paths which assures full employment now and in the near future.
Who will benefit from the Affordable Care Act? While the people for whom it was formulated will get full access to quality health care, professional health caregivers will be in great demand with the creation new lucrative employment opportunities throughout the system. All levels of nursing skills will be required, from clinical and home patient care through clinic administration even advanced training and teaching positions.
As the provisions of the Affordable Care Act are implemented over the next eight years the demand for nursing staff will continue beyond the available supply. Unitek College is prepared to meet this challenge with its intensive dual-stage, multiple entry/multiple exit nursing programs to train nursing candidates so they can take and pass the national exams that are required by the all state licensing boards.
