Affordable Care Act Pros And Cons

As I watched the political speeches, it became apparent that this law had other, further reaching goals. This seems to be the first step in what Democrats have been trying for many years, single payer or nationalized healthcare. Much of the success of the ACA goals was dependent on states expanding Medicaid. Some states could not justify expanding a system that would cause more harm than good. According to many analyst including the Galen Institute (A not-for-profit health and tax policy research organization) who stated: “One reason why the anger over Obamacare has subsided somewhat could be that more than 70 significant changes have been made to the law since it was enacted in 2010—delaying, weakening, and eliminating some of its more onerous and burdensome provisions.” (Turner & Roy 2013) The law that is being implemented is not the one Congress passed. According to the Galen Institute, “at least 43 of the changes to the Affordable Care Act have been made unilaterally by the Obama administration, 24 have passed Congress and been signed into law by President Obama, and three were made by the Supreme Court, which had to rewrite the law to uphold it.”(Turner & Roy, 2013)

The Affordable Care Act is President Obama’s new solution to provide healthcare coverage to uninsured Americans. The theory is that millions of uninsured Americans will get access to affordable health insurance through the government. The Affordable Care Act reforms Medicare. You cannot be dropped from coverage when you get sick. You cannot be denied coverage or treatment for being sick. You also cannot be charged more for being sick. Although these are all mostly the positive sides to the Affordable Care Act there are many negative. Since you cannot be dropped for being sick, it will make the prices for everyone’s insurance go up. Also, since so few young and healthy Americans have signed up, the math used to create the program is not adding up. Because there is so much confusion surrounding the specifics of the ACA, the Affordable Care Act keeps getting delayed. The Obama administration announced another delay on

"The Affordable Care act (Obamacare) main focus is on providing more Americans with access to affordable health insurance, improving the quality of health care and health insurance, regulating the health insurance industry, and reducing health care spending in the US." Yet five years since the implementation of Obamacare, 30.1 million people lost there private insurance,because it did not meet the 10 essential health benefits. Another 3-5 million people will lose there company sponsored health insurance, since companies find it cheaper to pay the penalty than buying there employees health insurance. Also medications will become more expensive due too new taxes that will increase prescriptions for individuals. Americans will find it cheaper to pay the penalty for not having health insurance, since it 's much cheaper and twice as less as the hassle. Obama care lacks to tell what the implications are on the health care system, how are doctors affected and what it means for average Americans living to ends meat.With Obama care addressing how it 's going to make health care affordable it does not address long-term care with an estimated 70% of Americans turning 65 will at some point,depend on long term care in nursing or assisted living facility. A elderly American can spend $42,000 to $84,000 per year and if you are poor enough, you may qualify for Medicaid but those who simply can 't afford the care they need. The Affordable care act originally had a community living

Since June 6, 2009, President Barack Obama told the American public multiple times, “If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan.” The public later found out that this was not the case. If your health care plan did not satisfy the minimum federal requirements then you will lose your plan and will have to find another one. House republicans have tried to repeal the bill almost 40 times because they claim it is a major threat to the economic health of the nation. Despite all of the political rhetoric about Obamacare over the past few years, most Americans do not know what it is and how it affects them. While Obamacare does attempt to fix some issues in our healthcare system, it still has not completely fixed the problems at hand. It is an unjust fix and it is far from complete.

Although, ObamaCare is highly regarded as a bad or corrupt by many wealthy and middle class people because they make their living by working hard, and some/most of their money earned is sent in tax dollars to pay for “lazy” people will and care. This act seems as if it was good, but many lower and low middle class people see it as an opportunity to not work and get rewarded and to take advantage of the government and citizens. Also, this act is very long and can seem confusing, but that doesn’t deny the fact of what people do and express.

The Affordable Care Act, in its time, has helped many uninsured Americans to obtain health insurance by giving them guaranteed coverage. About 20 million Americans, based on the statistics from the New York Times’s article titled “Fact Check: Trump’s Critiques of the Affordable Care Act.”, have obtained health insurance through the ACA. Dropping the uninsured rate to 11 percent by 2013 (Qiu 2017). Americans, through the ACA, were able to get health insurance even if they got sick, which inevitably happens to many. This put insurers in a place where they cannot deny coverage to people who have preexisting conditions, or their health history. Other main points that are included in Former President Obama’s Affordable Care Act is that one, it was given as an individual mandate that all U.S. Citizens and legal residents must enroll for qualifying health care or get penalized for not signing up for insurance at all. Making the fact that getting health care is mandatory is a good way to lower the insured rates and save many Americans money when the next unexpected hospital visits or illnesses come up. Another thing is that the ACA has also expanded medicaid to all non-Medicaid eligible individuals that are under the age 65 and making medicaid more federal funded based rather than a state issue. Thus helping those who could not afford

Since June 6, 2009, President Barack Obama has told the American public numerous times, “If you like your health care plan, you 'll be able to keep your health care plan.” The public later found out that this was not the case. If your health care plan did not satisfy the minimum federal requirements, then you will disinherit your plan and, you must find another one. House republicans have tried to repeal the bill almost 40 times because they claim it is a major threat to the economic health of the nation. Despite all of the political rhetoric about Obamacare over the past few years, a majority of Americans do not know what it is and how it affects them. While Obamacare does attempt to amend some of the

The Affordable Care Act is one of America’s many insurance plans to attempt to lower costs and provide a wider coverage for citizens all over the country. It is a widely controversial topic in America; especially within the past year. Although there are some people out there who support it, there are also those who base their campaigns on getting it repealed; Donald Trump is a prime example of this. When instituting this policy, Obama had very good intentions, but he was far from fulfilling his intended purpose. Today, the ACA has many flaws that affect Americans both as a whole and individually. Obamacare has raised costs for individuals, contributed even more money to America’s debt, is the complete opposite of what President Obama said it would be, it takes away civil liberties, and puts new standards on patients.

A few important points, Parks (2011) found that, “As of 2013, there are approximately 44 million Americans that are not able to afford the costs of health insurance” and Epperly (2012) found that, “In 2014, six in ten Americans without health insurance could get coverage for $100 or less a month”. Now I am very open to the fact that ObamaCare has its many flaws that can negatively impact others, therefore I do not want to take this opportunity to force my opinion on others. It is important to know how much the health care system has been greatly affected by ObamaCare and to share the benefits, know the rights and protection of the people that ObamaCare also has to offer.

The Affordable Care Act (ACA or ObamaCare) was made to help uninsured Americans gain insurance for their families without having to pay too much money out of pocket. After years of debating and perfecting ObamaCare the US government finally decided to let the bill pass. ALTHOUGH OBAMACARE HAS GOOD INTENTIONS; IT IS NOW LEAVING OUR NATION WITH UNTRUSTWORTHY MEDICAL INSURANCE AND FACILITIES, CREATING MORE NATIONAL AND PERSONAL DEBT THAN WAS INTENDED, AND DESTROYING JOBS.

Since the early days of our nation, our founding fathers wanted change. At the peak of his campaign, Barack Obama promised the change the country had been longing for. He promised health care reform and new benefits, something that had been tried to achieve by numerous presidents after the signing of the New Deal by President Roosevelt. Obama promised change but not the type he wanted. His change came under the name of the Affordable Care Act, a bill that was filled with empty promises. The Affordable Care Act nicknamed “ObamaCare” was supposed to benefit all but instead of helping our nation's citizens, it burdened them. It burdened them with higher taxes, less hours of work, and higher costs for “affordable”

I totally agree with you on the premise that the main goal of the obamacare act was extremely noble. The health care act was premedemontly designed in order to reach and make health care accessible to all the American citizens. I believe that the main components of the law are well structured and inclusive into every single segment of society.I disagree with you on the premise that poor people have more difficulties while trying to obtain health insurance. Obamacare has expanded the reach of Medicaid

Several new taxes were created in order to pay for the ACA. Also additional taxes were created for people with higher incomes, seeing as they had plenty of money they wouldn’t mind sharing some of the wealth with the rest of the country. But of course they did mind, they didn’t see how this could possibly be fair that they had to give up a larger percentage of their income in order to pay for others health insurance. Another major con for requiring American citizens to have health-insurance is that businesses are cutting employee hours in order to avoid having to pay for employees health-insurance. Of course businesses aren’t going to want to pay for all of their employee’s health-insurance, to avoid this they cut hours. This isn’t helping those people who have those jobs. They need to be able to work full-time and need to be able to have health coverage. This is a major con and doesn’t benefit those at all who don’t have full-time

on October 8, 2009 and then passed the Senate in December 24, 2009 and then was signed and

One of the main issues today is repealing of Obamacare. For that reason, I researched about Affordable Care Act and found an BBC News article that points out the problems of Obamacare and compares it to Trumpcare.