This essay focuses on access to affordable healthcare. Visit the link below to an article from National Public Radio (NPR) focusing on the disparities around access to affordable healthcare. http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/06/10/188951911/african-americans-remain-hardest-hit-by-medical-bills Either listen to the news story or read the article and provide a substantial response for each of the questions below.

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Visit the link below to an article from National Public Radio (NPR) focusing on the disparities around access to affordable healthcare.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/06/10/188951911/african-americans-remain-hardest-hit-by-medical-bills

Either listen to the news story or read the article and provide a substantial response for each of the questions below.

 Your submission should be a minimum of 1.5 pages in length.

Firstly, What are your reactions to the news story?

Secondly,  What are some ways that community health organizations could help to provide support for Mike Jackson and others like him?

Thirdly,  How might the Affordable Care Act affect health care costs for folks like Mike Jackson?

The Affordable Care

The Affordable Care Act will give all Americans, including LGBT Americans, improve access to health coverage through an expand

, stronger Medicaid program and new Affordable Insurance Exchanges, marketplaces for quality, affordable health insurance.

Moreover, thanks to the Affordable Care Act, insurance companies will no longer be able to deny individuals coverage

or charge them more based on pre-existing conditions – meaning that all Americans will have the security

of knowing that they can access affordable, quality health coverage even if they lose their jobs, switch jobs, move, or become sick.

Other notable parts in the Affordable Care Act that will benefit LGBT American

Flike all Americans

– are the provisions that permit individuals to remain on their parents’ health plans

until age 26 and enhance the availability of preventive services for women in new health plans and seniors on Medicare