Last year 11 million people signed up for Health Insurance through Obama Care. This affordable care act is supposed to be helping the middle and low classes of America, when in reality its just making things worse. Because of Obama Care, Americans are finding themselves being forced to change their health coverage or even their long term doctors. More and more each day, more doctors are starting to refuse Medicaid and Medicare payments. Which makes things more difficult for a majority of Americans that have Medicaid or Medicare. On the other side of the ring, there are many critics who believe that Americans not only have better access tot that care but that Obama Care is actually succeeding. Obama Care's two major goals were to fix coverage and cost. Even though Obama Care's succession is growing slowly, some critics believe it will be worth the wait. Obama Care has been keeping healthcare providers motivated by their various tools. Health care providers will receive financial rewards cutting cost for good health treatment. But they will also receive serious penalties for bad care. To say Obama Care's success is proceeding slowly is true, but in given time it will grow stronger and more effective in time. According to 46 year old cancer survivor Sandy Castillo, Obama Care has been quite confusing for herself and many around her. Many people feel confused or even unsure about Obama Care, …show more content…
Many states do not opt-in to this system, leaving millions of Americans without access to affordable healthcare. If there is to be reform in healthcare, then the government needs to mandate it in every state or allow Americans to obtain affordable healthcare outside their own state. It does not seem fair to penalize citizens without care simply because they cannot afford it. Until that can be done, or at least some alternative, Americans should not have to pay for not having
Obamacare serves the purpose of expanding health insurance access, protect patients against arbitrary actions by insurance companies, and reduce overall costs. As discussed in the above section, evidence shows that there are many issues in the current healthcare system that warrants a change. These changes will more or less take years to establish in full swing but it is important to start supporting this change now. These changes will pursue an overall improvement of the current healthcare system to the possibility of a sustainable system while ensuring a healthier nation.
The new and improved health care system in America seems to fall short for many people. The Affordable Care Act made history after President Obama signed it into law on March 23, 2010. This bill is going to create a change in how the current system operates which has kept approximately 46.3 million people uninsured. Those numbers are very disturbing by themselves but if we include all of those who are also underinsured then we add on another 25 million. The ACA is has promised to reduce those numbers dramatically. Even though the plan is to reduce these numbers there will still be people without health care coverage. Some will fall in between somewhere which makes them not eligible for Medicaid but also not able to pay the premiums
HealthCare has always been a major issue not only in the United States of America but in the State of Texas. Many politicians argue over what is known today as Obama Care. This essentially is known as the Affordable Care Act. This act requires most Americans to have some type of health insurance in turn raising others health insurance to pay for those who can’t. Politicians can go back and forth on this issue but I believe that there are many pros but also many cons to Obama Care. Is this what is best for the country?
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.
Questions are constantly circulating around the new Affordable Care Act. Many do not know what it does and the government is trying to make it out to be a big savior to the medical field for doctors and patients alike. The Affordable Care Act has also been given the name Obamacare because of its ties to the President. He believes that increasing the amount of people on insurances of any kind that meets his “standards” will help health care become more available and more profitable. Unfortunately, these claims are not true as Obamacare is clearly going to negatively impact health care in all aspects. The problems start for patients who get on government healthcare programs, such as Medicaid, with the fact that the treatment plans are extremely
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
Obamacare, also known as “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” or ACA, was enacted in 2010 under the Barack Obama administration. The Affordable Care Act does five main things: it enacts insurance market reforms, establishes an employer mandate, creates new federal and state health insurance exchanges, institutes an individual mandate, and expands Medicaid eligibility. This historical piece of legislation was met with much confrontation, forcing the Obama administration to cut deals and negotiate terms with opposing parties in order to get the act passed. The Affordable Care Act works, and its success is evident in the data. The number of uninsured Americans has decreased from 18% in 2013, just before the Affordable Care Act was
The affordable health care act has received its fair share of criticism as well. Opponents of the bill fell that the cost of this bill will be higher that before. People we be seen for more care and more sick people will be diagnosed with illnesses and they will be a constant visitor in medical facilities looking for care. Others argue the level of service provided. The main thing these critiques seem to point to is the cost and how effective is the bill finically. These things wont be determined or seen until this bill is riding in full effect in the years to come.
There needs to be an urgent reform of the Obama affordable health care act. The Obama health care act perhaps was an attempt to solve the solution of the American health care crisis. Obama care has created another crisis. Even those with health care coverage can not afford the out of pocket expenses. Emergency rooms are not adequately prepared for the increase in the volume of patients. Health care workers are becoming overloaded and elevated stress levels. There must be a cap on all health care cost for medical treatment. The middleman needs to be cut out. Middleman includes county clinics (on government funding who take advantage) , medical referral services, pharmaceutical company 's, and the health insurance company 's.
The United States of America is the most prosperous and free country in the world because of hard working citizens and the God-given freedoms we possess. America has contributed countless scientific and medical discoveries and accomplished feats deemed impossible by others. The wealth and progress in this country was not brought about by government intervention and supervision, but from individuals who had the freedom to do what they did best. Because of this freedom, America’s healthcare is currently unmatched anywhere in the world. Though other countries may tout free healthcare, they make it up with burdening taxes, understaffed hospitals, and incredibly long wait periods. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act puts America’s healthcare system in jeopardy of falling into the same trap. “Obamacare”, as it is referred to, moves America to a bureaucratized and overburdened system having far reaching consequences on taxpayers, professionals, and patients and should be repealed.
One of our nation’s most controversial topics since the year 2009, and still continues to affect our country, is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) also known as Obamacare. The Affordable Care Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. The Law was designed to extend coverage to millions of uninsured Americans and protect patients from abuse or discrimination. The Affordable Care Act affects, all Americans, either in a positive or negative way. It is an issue that has come to separated our congress, it has divided the republican and democratic parties, to the point where the Government was shut down.
On March 23, 2010 President Barack Obama introduced a new healthcare system because various Congress representatives and Obama believed our country needed a change. This new healthcare system was called the Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known as Obamacare. It is now 2016, and it is time for more changes. With a new president coming into office, Donald Trump, we can expect changes to Obamacare or an entirely new healthcare system altogether. Obamacare is costing Americans more than it was intended to (Galen Institute). This essay will explain why Obamacare needs to be improved and how to improve this healthcare system. Obamacare has two types of supporters. The first type of supporters believe there is nothing that can be done to make this healthcare system better, while the second type think there should be changes to reinforce this health care system. Opponents believe Obamacare needs to be changed or ended altogether because they claim it is not helping the American citizens. Going forward, Trump should make changes to Obamacare in order to make it stronger instead of scrapping it altogether.
Obamacare is an unofficial name for the Patient Protection and ACA (Affordable Care Act) which was signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2010. The White House announced that in the first month, more than 100,000 Americans successfully enrolled in new insurance plans (The New America). That’s not even close to a quarter of the United States population. There have been problems with the website when it crashed. This prevented many Americans from completing the enrollment process. Which put a big hurt on the AC. But there is no question that there is a real demand for quality, affordable health insurance. In the first month, nearly a million people successfully completed an application for themselves or their families. An estimated amount 396,000 citizens have the ability to gain access to Medicaid under the Affordable Care
Have you ever noticed that no one actually knows what Obamacare does? People are always talking about how it is evil or how it is amazing, but if you ask people to define what it is, they really can not tell you. All they can do is repeat some small part of it that they critique. I have yet to meet anyone that really understands what Obamacare is, and what it does. That is the question I am going to try to answer with my research paper; what is Obamacare, and what does it do?
U.S. health care reform is currently one of the most heavily discussed topics in health discourse and politics. After former President Clinton’s failed attempt at health care reform in the mid-1990s, the Bush administration showed no serious efforts at achieving universal health coverage for the millions of uninsured Americans. With Barack Obama as the current U.S. President, health care reform is once again a top priority. President Obama has made a promise to “provide affordable, comprehensive, and portable health coverage for all Americans…” by the end of his first term (Barackobama.com). The heated debate between the two major political parties over health care reform revolves around how to pay for it and more importantly, whether it