Source #1Health for All: The Promise of the Affordable Health Care Act for Racially and Ethnically Diverse PopulationsThe U.S. government is struggling to implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known like Obamacare. The ACA has four challenges: First, inequality, reducing health discrepancies among racial and ethnic minorities is a major goal of the law. Second, and perhaps the greatest challenge of the US healthcare system, is inefficiency. The enormous costs of the American system have worsened the gap for racial and ethnic minorities, making it difficult to afford health insurance. Even those who could afford it could only afford low-end treatment. Persistent expansion of health insurance for minorities will require significant improvements in health care efficiency. Third, the US system is heavily based on reliance on expensive, high-tech treatments. For example, minorities without health insurance generally do not have access to preventive services due to the expensive equipment used. Fourth, continued public perplexity is a problem for the implementation and political maintenance of the law. The only thing most people know about the law is the individual mandate that everyone must have “minimum essential” health coverage. There was a survey released by Kaiser Health Tracking that said how uneducated people are on the ACA. The survey was released in April 2013, which found that 4 in 10 Americans are still unaware that the ACA is law and is being implemented. Those who know the law only half of them understand how the law will affect their family. For people who are uninsured there is an even greater lack of understanding, 58% among diverse minorities... middle of paper......and ACA must be more effective there must be a better way to enable consumers to distinguish which plan is best for their needs. Ignoring the impact of choice in plans could be a costly mistake. Johnson, Eric J., Ran Hassin, Tom Baker, Allison T. Bajger, and Galen Treuer. "Can consumers make affordable care accessible? The value of choice architecture." Ed. Tommaso Boraud. PLoS ONE E81521 8.12 (2013): 1-6. Print.Source #5 (Book) Nowak, Sarah, Christine Eibner, David M. Adamson, and Evan Saltzman. Effects of the Affordable Care Act on consumer health spending and the risk of catastrophic health care costs. Np: RAND Corporation, 2013. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7249/j.ctt5hhv2q. Web.Source #6 (Book) Jacobs, Lawrence R. and Theda Skocpol. Healthcare reform and American politics: What everyone needs to know. New York: Oxford UP, 2010. Print.