The U.S Department of Health and Human Services

This course project focuses on randomly selected patients in hospitals based in Georgia. This will ascertain the gravity of discrimination against African Americans in Atlanta. Health Care Act meets the demands of this minority group. It has an impact on millions of Americans throughout the country. The United States Department of Health and Human Services is the government department responsible for healthcare policy. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), was signed into law in January 2014. It included a Medicaid expansion component that provided access to health insurance coverage to more than 20 million previously uninsured individuals, resulting in a 21 percent increase in Medicaid enrollment (Zhao et al., 2020). In particular, the extension of Medicaid coverage to persons under 65 years of age earning up to 138 percent of the federal poverty threshold was a significant contributor to this dramatic growth. A 2012 Supreme Court decision, on the other hand, permitted states to opt-out of Medicaid expansion. At the moment, 32 states and the District of Columbia have chosen to expand Medicaid, while 19 states have chosen not to do so (Cohen et al., 2021).Moreover, the National Association of Free