The discussion on the distinction between personal health and public is confusing and deserves the best attention. A major difference between public health and personal health can be derived from the meaning of both definitions. Public health is defined as the health consequences of a team of individuals with an inclusion of the distribution of such results within the group. Personal health on the other hand can be understood as the health outcomes of an individual person with full attention on the distribution of these outcomes on the same person. Public health appears in a sense of’ do not’ that apply to the whole world. Personal health on the other hand promotes health from an individual encouragement of healthy behavior. Promoting health on public levels must first start with encouraging healthy behavior from an individual level and this is the intersection point for public health and personal health (Arah 2009). At the same time, the health of one person cannot be from an isolated perspective, it has to be developed in a rich context of the socioeconomic situations apart from other health factors with particular reference to where they have been born and raised, what shapes their behaviors and how their communities and local environments are shaped.

With the introduction of Affordable Care Act, the new developments in health and insurance aim at maintaining public health rather than personal health. Because Affordable Care Act aims at providing those who cannot afford insurance to buy new plans or replace old insurances and this means that public health policies will be highly preferred. The tax credits will be limited for those purchasing public policies compared to individual policies which similarly send signals of supporting public health though from individual health concerns (Cox, Claxton and Levitt 2013).