Obamacare : The Affordable Care Act

Health care has been a controversial topic of discussion for all Americans since it was put in effect many years ago. Currently the biggest debate of Healthcare up to date is Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, is a Health care Reform that is a governmental attempt to make basic health care easily obtainable. However, there are no benefits without cost in situations like this, and upon that are different viewpoints on the subject thus creating political debates discussing if it is ethically correct. The overall goal that Obamacare hopes to accomplish is that through specific changes through insurance companies, industry standards, and patient guarantees a healthier America will be produced. Obamacare has its ups and downs for both the generally agreeing democratic viewpoints and the opposing republican side. Both viewpoints have their own beliefs about how Health care works and Obamacare is somewhat in between on this. Most arguments on Obamacare deal with Medicaid being constitutional and if Obamacare truly reduces the total cost of health care for individuals and in the government.

Since the early days of our nation, our founding fathers thrived for change. At the peak of his election campaign, Barack Obama promised the change the country had been longing for. He promised a health care reform and new benefits. Many presidents elected after the signing of Roosevelt’s New Deal had tried to achieve health care reform but ultimately none succeeded. Obama promised change; 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 Americans but instead of helping our nation's citizens, it burdened them. It burdened them with higher taxes, less hours of work, and higher costs

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.

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.

Trump mentioned in conversation that The Affordable Care Act is a “ruse. It was gotten there by fraud.” There is no evidence that fraud enabled The Affordable Care Act to be passed, not everyone may like it, but it was legally passed as a healthcare reform. Most conservative evangelicals are going to agree with Trump, because they do not like the Obama administration nor do they want accusations of fraud infiltrating the government they live under. Trump is on their side, claiming that if there is fraud in the system he does not stand for it and will not allow it to

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”

Since the beginning of his presidential campaign and now, as the President of the United States, one of Donald Trump’s leading issues has been health care reforms. Contrary to former President, Barack Obama’s vision, President Trump is against the sanctions put into place by the Affordable Care Act. Hence, while rallying for support throughout the country from voters, he made it known that if elected, he would abolish Obamacare. Now, 100 days into his presidency, this is still one of the many hot debatable issues on the table. While there has been no clear decisive plan implement or decided upon to replace the ACA, there has been a proposal by two republican senators that could serve as an alternate. The Patient Care Act, also known

In the United States, the medical and pharmaceutical industries have the greatest technology and professional medical services in the world. As a result, the cost of medical care is higher than the other countries. With that said, due to ever increasing costs, healthcare reform has been an issue for the past two decades. In order to lower the cost of healthcare, President Obama introduced revolutionary changes. ObamaCare is the unofficial name for The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a health reform law signed on March 23, 2010 by President Barack Obama (DeMichele). According to ObamaCare, “the Affordable Care Act does lots of important things including: offering Americans a number of new benefits, rights, and protections in regards to their healthcare; setting up a Health Insurance Marketplace where Americans can purchase federally regulated and subsidized health insurance during open enrollment; requiring most people to have coverage beginning in 2014 in order to get an exemption, or pay a penalty” (DeMichele). Since the ObamaCare started, many conservative politicians and Obama haters tried to challenge the ObamaCare because they assume the law takes advantage of tax payers. On the other hand, some politicians think President Obama starts a new era of health care. On June 25, 2015, the Supreme Court rejected another challenge in the case of “King vs. Burwell”. The justices voted 6-3 that the IRS can continue

We now know that many of the claims President Obama made about his health care reform law have been proven false. People who liked their health care plans and their doctors have not always been able to keep them under Obamacare. The Obamacare website was badly designed, not secure, untested, and prone to frequent, random crashes. Insurance premiums have gone up for many; they certainly have not fallen by an average of $2,500 per family, as was claimed would happen under Obamacare.

After one of the most grueling presidential races in American history, the populous candidate Donald Trump has been elected by the American people as our next president. While campaigning, one of the first things that Trump vowed to accomplish in office was to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (donaldjtrump.com). Trump should have no trouble doing this with the support of both the Republican senate and the Republican House. The consequences of what exactly will be done is a constantly argued topic and the phrase “repeal and replace Obamacare” has become a sort of buzzword in the media.

Trump claims that he would let Obama care implode on its own, however, measures that he can easily and probably will inflict suggest otherwise, such as ending subsidies coming from Washington, causing premiums to rise and healthy people dropping out, leaving only the sick, causing the premiums to increase even more. The purpose of the Board’s article is to make the reader see the obvious sabotage that will occur to kill Obamacare, hoping that with this information, they will go out and be wary of the president’s actions. Due to the serious and hard to grasp subject matter, the writer keeps a grim, formal tone and attempts to simplify the situation so that the audience of citizens concerned and confused over the healthcare debate can understand what occuring is

During the election Trump preached on and on about how Obamacare was an abomination to the United States and he would get rid of it during his first days in office (BBC US & Canada, 2017). Many Republicans disliked Obamacare as well saying that imposed too many costs on business. After being sworn into office Trump said he reconsidered repealing the entire act after meeting with Obama. As time went on Trump then reevaluated his plan and wanted to pass his new health care plan, “Ryan Care”. This was strongly authored by Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan. Republicans and Trump were disappointed again when the new plan didn’t pass according to Trump’s plan (David, 2017). Trump then took to twitter saying quote, “Democrats are smiling in D.C. that the Freedom Caucus, with the help of Club For Growth and Heritage, have saved Planned Parenthood & Ocare!” It is rumored that this was all a part of a plan from Trump or members of his administration had orchestrated a usual attack on Ryan (Walters, 2017). This is one of the many plans that

With the presidential elections coming up, the issue of health care coverage will definitely be a hot issue for debate. The people behind the website called Barack Obama created a webpage specifically for detailing how President Barack Obama will be a better candidate for what happens to health care. There are three videos on the webpage that show people who have been affected by the president’s Affordable Care Act. In these videos aimed towards the voters of America, Barack Obama frames those who are in dire need for access to health care as situations that can happen to any American citizen, in order to gain more votes for President Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election.

“We will pass reform that lowers cost, promotes choice, and provides coverage that every American can count on. And we will do it this year.” The preceding is a powerful statement from the newly elected President Barak Obama. One of the main aspects of both political campaigns was health care reform. The above quote shows passion and encouragement, but the quotes about health care do not end there. Georgian republican gubernatorial candidate and health care policy maker John Oxendine expressed: “Their proposal would virtually devastate the private healthcare sector in this country along with competition and patient choice, by replacing it with bureaucratic planning and government control. The result of this plan and its one trillion

When President Trump was campaigning, he made it known that the ACA was not what he wanted. Included in the cartoon, Chris drew President Trump with an axe, holding it over a man tied over a stump (this is representing the American citizens receiving healthcare). President Trump has a button on his suit with the message “Kill Obama Care” written on it. He is also speaking to the “patients” with a message saying, “Take a knee you loser.” This drawing is appealing to conservatives. It is demonstrating Trumps feelings against Obamacare and the standardization of healthcare. By taking away Obamacare, many people think that President Trump will be “killing” them. Individuals who have insurance today could possibly have that taken away from them. When the idea of a possible replacement to Obamacare came about, many powerful medical special interest groups became enemies of the idea. These groups include, AARP, the American Medical Association