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.

Universal Healthcare in the United States has been a long time journey that dates back decades and we, as a country, are far behind other developed countries who have had universal healthcare for a long time. Today, Healthcare is obtained through employers or by people paying for it by themselves, which is incredibly expensive due to high premiums. Five years have passed since the controversial Obama care, or Affordable Care Act, was signed into law on March 23, 2010. The Affordable Care Act aimed at fixing the many problems that the United States has with healthcare by making it available to everyone, but also more efficient and this required drastic changes that made some people happy while others unhappy since some are benefiting while others are not. These people include politicians, but foremost presidential candidates. Candidate’s stance on the issue of healthcare is truly important due to the fact that if they’re the next president of the United States, it could hurt or improve the health care reform. Noteworthy candidates are: Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton, Marco Rubio, and Bernie Sanders. Republicans and Democrats have long debated whether or not the Affordable Care Act should be repealed or replaced. Republicans believe that it is a problem while Democrats support it. The Affordable Care Act should not be replaced but instead improved because it provides quality and affordable health care to Americans. Everyone gets sick and people shouldn’t be afraid of receiving help

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 also known as the Affordable Car Act was a law signed to reform the health care industry. The goal of Obamacare is to give more Americans access to affordable, quality health insurance to reduce spending. The update on Obamacare includes many disadvantages to those that have low income. For example open enrollment will be pushed closer without notice, higher out of pocket costs, and narrower networks availble. Obamacare offers many benefits, rights and protections that the new Trumpcare doesn't provide. Enacting the new Affordable Care Act with Trumpcare will reduce federal deficits by $119 billion. The number of people who will be uninsured will increase by 23 million which will leave a total of 51 million people uninusred by the

The Affordable Care Act was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. The Affordable Care Act also nicknamed as “ObamaCare” faced huge amounts of adversity and challenges on its way to being ratified and upheld by the Supreme Court. Some of these arguments highlight the disadvantages of free social services, the escalating federal deficit, and the altering the healthcare industry’s landscape completely. Healthcare is generally defined as providing for the wellbeing of a personal through medical services. In America, all services come with a price, and healthcare has become an industry that is nearly only about the money and less about the patient. Needless to say, the quality of care that a patient receives is almost

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, often referred to as “Obamacare,” was signed into law March 23, 2010, by President Barrack Obama and has been at the center of highly and critical debate in healthcare coverage since than. The Affordable Care Act (AAC) purpose is intended to provide a large majority of uninsured Americans including those with insurance with reasonable and fair health care coverage that is affordable, adequate and accessible to high quality treatment and services. Although the AAC is not favored and embraced by all Americans, it has made tremendous efforts throughout the years to bridge those differences and make one of President Obama’s biggest achievements of his presidency a success by millions of uninsured Americans.

In 2010, Obamacare was signed into law. Many Americans do not have health insurance. President Obama and Congress wanted to make sure that all Americans could get healthcare. This healthcare is intended for middle class low income families. Obamacare is a lower cost of health care. This was made to reduce the cost of Medicaid and Medicare. These insurances are a threat to the federal budget. Health care is the number one cause of bankruptcy. Most businesses will offer healthcare through the company, but there is people who don’t have this option. Some are poor enough to qualify for Medicaid which is covered by state and federal government and anyone over 65 receives Medicare. There are people who make too much money and they do not

President-Elect Trump issued a seven-point health care reform plan that is a preliminary version of the concept of what he would like to do. Furthermore, this eludes to Trump’s vision to, “…repeal and replace Obamacare with Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), work with Congress to create a patient-centered health care system that promotes choice, quality, and affordability, work with states to establish high-risk pools to ensure access to coverage for individuals who have not maintained continuous coverage, allow people to purchase insurance across state lines in all 50 states thus creating a dynamic market, require price transparency from all health care providers, remove barriers to enter into

“It was going to be estimated that Obamacare will raise its taxes by a total of $813 billion over a matter of 10 years with over 12 taxes to pay, equivalent to over $200,000 a year for typical American taxpayers”. (Perry House) “Obamacare determines what kind of coverage you get from the government, but some aren't covered at all”. (KHN), “new data has found that in 2012 some of the U.S.’ 31.7 million Americans weren’t

“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

It is amazing how one person’s hour long speech can change so many American views over our health care system. In 2008, Obama states that an average of 700,000 jobs were being lost per month (Obama). That means almost a million Americans were without a job! Obama later states in his speech that we are “the only advanced democracy on Earth that allows such hardship for millions of its people” (Obama). That statement is very true especially when it comes to health care issues. If Obama’s predicted outcome of his health care reform carries through, then millions of Americans will be greatly benefited.

In contrast to former presidents Obama and Kennedy, Trump has a unique and illogical way of pursuing these qualifications. Our current president is renowned for bypassing the basic tenets of logic, creating his own in the process, and have half of the nation under his spell. There are a myriad of policies that President Donald Trump intends to implement that beat common sense, but of all, the biggest are regarding health care, domestic jobs, immigration, and Muslims. Concerning health care reform, President Trump intends to “repeal and replace” every aspect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) that former President Barack Obama signed into law. At first glance, there should not be a tremendous amount of controversy revolving around this topic if the current adversities of Obamacare were replaced with something that is clear and transparent. However, President Trump’s plan is irrational because

Following former President Obama’s term coming to and end and the ushering of a new one in President Trump, Republicans have been eager to deal with Obamacare. Ever since the healthcare act was passed they have anxiously been trying to get rid of it. Even today, you can still see both Democrats and Republicans continuing to tear each other apart on how to deal with it. First off, what is Obamacare? Obamacare is the nickname for what is known as the Affordable Care Act signed into law by the former President on March 23, 2010. It is a healthcare reform law that broadens and improves access to care and curbs spending through regulations and taxes. The Affordable Care Act’s main goal is to provide more Americans access to affordable health insurance, improving the quality of healthcare and health insurance, reducing healthcare spending, and regulating the the health insurance industry. In simpler terms, it allowed people who could not previously afford to have health insurance now get the opportunity to do so. As stated before, Republicans for whatever seems to be their reason want to do away with this. President Trump on twitter claimed “If Republican Senators are unable to pass what they are working on now, they should immediately REPEAL, and the REPLACE at a later date!”. This kind of greed an wishy-washy behavior will cause much more harm than good. If Obamacare comes to an end (and especially if it is not replaced quickly), tragic circumstances will come about for many