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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is designed to give people access to preventative and curative health care services. The policy coincides with a narrow definition of health as the absence of disease. A broader perspective is to view health from a social justice perspective.

There are several authors who suggest health goes beyond the physical or medical dimension. A broad sense of health includes bodily health, as well as bodily integrity and safety; the ability to use one's senses, imagination, and thoughts; the ability to experience emotion; the ability to engage in practical reasoning, to form personal affiliations with other humans, to have contact with other species, and to play; and to control one's environment (Rawls, 1971).

Reading Resources: DiNitto, D, and Johnson, D. (2016). Social Welfare: Politics and Public Policy.

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U. S. Department of Health and Human Services (2015). Key features of the Affordable Care Act.