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Obamacare Persuasive Speech

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Cayla Gonsowski
Griggs
7th period
11 Aug 2017
Should Obamacare be repealed?
As of now, many Americans have problems with their health care and the two political parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, are split on the issue. The past president, Barrack Obama, enacted the Patient Protection and the Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare, on May 23rd, 2010.
After the first attempt to repeal Obamacare failed, a “skinny” repeal of Obamacare was put in place to repeal only parts of Obamacare. This repeal also failed with a Senate vote of 49-51, not repealing Obamacare.
Although most Americans are not happy with their healthcare, Obamacare should not be repealed because its repeal would result in coverage loss, prices to rise, and it would take a step backward in health care rather than solving the main concerns Americans have about health care.

Although health care is already very expensive in the United States, the result of the repeal would only raise the premiums more so. If Obamacare were to be repealed, the individual mandate would follow along with it. The individual mandate is a rule that everyone has to purchase insurance. Analysts have said that “health insurance would become more expensive and cover fewer people” (Sanger-Katz 2). With the influence of the individual mandate, “healthy people tend to buy insurance, reducing the average cost of coverage” (Sanger-Katz 2). Without the individual mandate, healthy people would not be buying insurance, causing

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