Obamacare : The Affordable Health Care Act

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. While the act is directed at addressing one of the country's most pressing problems, it generated much controversy as a consequence of the ethical dilemmas that it brings on. The act provides individuals with a wider range of choices and control over their health coverage. It provides a series of benefits such as people getting lower costs on coverage, several important health benefits being covered in the Marketplace, more help in local areas, and pre-existing conditions being covered. However, it also involves a legislation claiming that most people have to have health coverage by 2014, with those who do not have it having to pay a fee.

The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is a healthcare program created by president Obama’s administration. The goal of the Affordable Care Act is to make sure every United States citizen has health insurance. The Affordable Care Act provides “affordable” health insurance plans to citizens that do not have any and make about $15,000 a year. While the idea of providing health insurance to the millions of American’s that cannot afford it is great, everything comes at a cost. According to Emily Miller, Obamacare is causing people’s health insurance premiums to rise by around 1 to 9 percent (Miller 15-15). Not only are insurance premiums rising, but ever since the Supreme Court declared the Affordable Care Act constitutional approximately 20 tax hikes have been approved (Battersby). All the aforementioned reasons are helping pay for Obamacare. Although providing health insurance for people that cannot afford it is important, the Affordable Care Act should be revoked because it will hurt the economy.

Obama’s Health Care Reform, better known as ObamaCare was signed into law on March 23, 2010. It is officially called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) or Affordable Care Act (ACA). This act is meant to provide affordable, good quality health care to all Americans and to cut health care spending. The ACA has been on ongoing struggle to reform the health care system. Almost 50 million Americans still lack health coverage despite the fact that ObamaCare continues to help provide an increasing amount of Americans with access to affordable, quality health insurance . ObamaCare doesn’t take place until 2014, 2013 is considered one of the most important years in history of ObamaCare.

The subject of insurance and how heavily the government can mandate it or not mandate it is a constant struggle in politics. There is always the question of “what kind of relationship should the government have with its people and what role should it play with businesses?” Currently, a popular subject is the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and it is challenging the boundaries by requiring people to have health insurance and requiring businesses to offer health insurance to everyone and anyone. Mandating insurance is a hot button subject in other areas too that we will discuss like auto insurance, workers’ compensation insurance, and professional malpractice insurance.

The Obama care Affordable Care Act has advantages, but the disadvantages in the favor of both the insurers and the insured play a major part in if the Affordable Care Act is for the best interest of everyone. In America, the average citizen has plenty to gain than to lose with the new insurance plans. The people on the higher spectrum ;however, will notice more negative effects of the Affordable Care Act as well as the larger businesses that will notice the financial downfall of the new insurance policy. In order to get the money to help insure most of the recipients of the health insurance plans there are new taxes, mostly on high-earners. According to Longman, Phillip, and Paul S. Hewitt, the authors of “After Obama care,” they state, “Workers with employer provided health insurance have to wound of paying this tax largely in the form of foregone wages, pensions, and other benefits.”(Longman & Hewitt 39). Many people that have worked on their jobs are satisfied with the insurance they had and with the new law they are paying more out of pocket in the end than they have before.

The Affordable Care Act, also known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was put into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. The focus of the Act is a health care law geared towards improving the health care system of the United States by broadening medical coverage to more Americans, as well as protecting the existing health insurance policy holders.

For millions of Americans, there is one policy that provides equal health care coverage for all; and that is called The Affordable Care Act ( ACA)1 or also known as Obamacare. This program provides standardized medical expenses/procedures to be made and allows everyone -- who is eligible -- to have coverage. However, I think that we need to take in account how Obamacare is negatively impacting the lower class, middle class, and upper class; therefore, we should remove it. This law became effective on March 23, 2010 (Key Features of The Affordable Care Act). Obamacare is one of the most controversial topics because there are many holes in the system that makes The Affordable Care Act almost impossible to provide equal coverage to everyone. For instance, it’s effecting small and large businesses, there is a penalty if you do not sign up for the ACA and there are not enough doctors that are available. In addition, there are many other subheadings under The Affordable Care Act, such as Medicaid, which is a federal law to provide assistance and Medi-Cal 2, which is California 's statewide insurance but follows under Medicaids 3 same procedures and requirements. We need to look at health care as a privilege and not so much as a right.

Obamacare or Affordable care act (ACA) refers to the healthcare act introduced by President Obama in 2010 and represents one of the significant healthcare reforms since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. The primary purpose of the reform was to increase the quality and affordability of health insurance, expand the reach of insurance, and reduce the costs of healthcare for both individuals and government.

The Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as ObamaCare, is a healthcare reform law that focus on providing more Americans with access to affordable health insurance. “The ACA is expected to add 32 million people seeking primary and preventive service and treatment” (journalofnursingregulation.com). It was first enacted by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. The act has offered a number of people with benefits, set up a place they can purchase health insurance, expanded the use of Medicaid and Medicare to the disabled and senior citizens. The Act has forced many employers to offer coverage to their employees. Despite all of the positive attributes this act has provided, there is a flip side to it. Americans are required to have health

ObamaCare ot The Affordable Care Act is a US human services change law that extends and enhances access to care and checks spending through directions and duties. The Affordable Care Act's principle center is on furnishing more Americans with access to moderate medical coverage, enhancing the nature of human services and medical coverage, managing the medical coverage industry, and diminishing social insurance spending in the US.

The Affordable Care Act has already created much history within the five years since it was passed into law. On March 23, 2010 The Affordable Care Act was passed into law (Clemmitt, “Health-Care Reform”, 505-28). With it came many new laws and regulations regarding health insurance. The law says that United States Citizens must buy health insurance unless one is enrolled on Medicaid or Medicare. If they choose not to buy insurance, they will face a fine that is adjusted to your income (Clemmitt, “Health-Care Reform”, 505-28). The Democrats, who mostly support the law, argue that the law will insure 32 of the 45 million people in the United States who are uninsured by expanding medicaid, providing subsidies to lower and middle class families to make insurance more affordable, and regulating insurance markets where people without employer sponsored insurance can buy subsidized coverage (Clemmitt, “Health-Care Reform”, 505-28). The Republicans, who mostly oppose the law,

The Affordable Care Act was implemented in March 2010 states several new requirements that not for profit hospitals organizations must meet to be compliant for tax exemption. The Internal Revenue Service developed new forms and guides to help implement the new section of Affordable Care Act. The requirements are listed under the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 501(C)(3). This section affects not for profit organizations that operate one or more hospital organization and states four requirements that the organizations must meet at each facility they operate. The four requirements stated by the Internal Revenue Services (IRS) under the ACA are the following;

The Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as ObamaCare, is a United States law that was signed by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010 and upheld by the Supreme Court on June 28, 2012. This Act was set to reform both healthcare and health insurance industries in the United States. It aims to lower cost on coverage, add new benefits, and a few new taxes. Increasing the quality, availability, and affordability of private and public health insurance are very important roles of the ACA. While trying to help over 44 million uninsured Americans, it is changing taxes, mandates, subsidies, and adding new regulations. The law is trying to slow the growth of healthcare spending and cost, which has been rising at an unsustainable rate. The Affordable Care Act has added many new laws and regulation, but how much has it helped and how will it be changed after the presidential election?

The citizens of the United States are burdened with many hardships. Most of these hardships stem from poor political policies and programs set forth by past politicians. However, politicians cannot be the only blame. This country is relatively young. Our political policies are still in somewhat of a “beta” period. We only learn from trial and error. This country is in the middle of a political shift. Now is the time to make the necessary changes to mold and shape our future society for the better. Far too long have Americans been denied basic necessities such as education, food, employment, and most importantly healthcare. The healthcare crisis has been the topic of debate for many years among politicians across all the governmental factions. The catalyst applying the brake on healthcare progress has been a strong division of politicians on what is ethical and what is legal when it comes to the government putting its foot in the door. Along with that debate there is also whether or not the government should do anything at all or just let the private sector and the citizens hash it out. Throughout U.S. history many attempts have been made to reform our healthcare system to no avail. Healthcare reform is clearly an issue that takes great socioeconomic knowledge and political tact. President Barack Obama is the first president to present us with such a plan. This plan is known as The Affordable Care Act or “Obamacare” (a term coined by a group of Republicans to disenfranchise

Obamacare is an extremely controversial topic amount American people. What was originally supposed to help the uninsured receive insurance has turned out to be anything but that. Obamacare is one of the most unproductive investments that Obama and his administration team have unveiled. The time and effort they spent on Obamacare could have been spent coming up with a valid and cost effective way for uninsured Americans to obtain health coverage. Obamacare has caused many Americans to remain uninsured, and many have lost their existing coverage due to the new Affordable Healthcare Act. A solution to the problem is to let Americans choose the insurance they want and allow the government to crack down on insurance companies, not dictate what Americans can and cannot do.