STOP OBAMACARE!! “When we look back five years from now, ten years from now, or twenty years from now, we’ll be better off because we had the courage to pass this law and keep moving forward.” –President Barack Obama. Obamacare also known as “The Affordable Care Act” is a new health care plan that was passed as a law on March 23, 2010 and should be in full affect by year of 2013-2014. This law will continue to roll out until the year 2022. This new health care plan has a goal, and the goal is to provide Americans access to “affordable,” quality health insurance. It also wants to decrease the growth in health care spending in the United States. Obamacare provides an offer of numbers of new benefits, rights and protections. This …show more content…
The “high earners” are the individuals who will be affected more by this. This is not fair to a lot of people because, younger people are often not as sick as older people. So, why should they pay for something that they do not want? They should not be forced or held responsible paying for something they did not even want. Other reasons why passing Obamacare was not a good idea is because passing this law was supposed to be helping people in the United States feel protected by having a decent health care plan. But most people can not afford the price and changes in there plan. Some business companies say that by the year 2015 they will have to provide full-time workers with coverage. Some companies will only cover at least 50 full-time workers, which means a lot of people will end up getting hours cut, or losing there jobs. On a website I read a quote that was said by a man named Cruz, and he said “Obamacare is the nation’s number one job killer. To all the young people who are graduating from high school and college and are looking for jobs, Washington refuses to remove this obstacle that prevents them from climbing up the economic ladder. To all the single parents who are seeing their hours reduced to 29 hours to avoid Obamacare’s penalties for employers, Washington has turned a deaf ear to their pleas for help.” ObamaCare focuses more on making sure individuals are covered than it does on addressing the price of care
Ever since the Affordable Care Act has been implemented it has been described as something that will help the economy. More people with health insurance, more jobs, and a lower national debt were a few things described as results of Obamacare. Unfortunately, the exact opposite has occurred. For starters, the Affordable Care Act is killing full-time jobs. The Affordable Care Act is requiring businesses to provide all employees with health insurance if there is at least fifty
The Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, was passed in March 2010. This over-1000-page Act implements a number of reforms designed to increase the availability of health care for individuals. The Act created a Health Insurance Marketplace, a universal way to sign up for subsidized health care plans (which are cheaper), though you can only get certain plans from certain places, including an expanded Medicaid. It also creates an incentive to purchase health insurance-if you don 't, you 'll have to pay a fine, which is interpreted by many as a tax. Additionally, the Affordable Care Act requires sizable firms to provide a certain level of health care to all of their employees, with certain specifications. Obamacare also attempts to make health care cheaper for many, by trying to even out the cost for everyone.
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.
Many individuals will say that Obamacare is a great law, because so many people who are uninsured before now have coverage. For an example, cancer patients are able to afford medical insurance for a discounted price. (Goodnough 2). Although this is true, someone still has to pay the money that was discounted off of the bill. Which is another reason why insurers are pulling out, they're left with the burden of paying the
If one cannot afford the price of an Affordable Care Act policy they can be assessed fines or penalties based on their income or a set fee, it has caused taxes to be higher and some of the funding for Obamacare comes from already established government insurance that is mainly for the elderly or retired. When it first came out the whole thing was the butt of many jokes as when people tried to enroll, the website crashed or it took people over an hour to sign up and some people found the whole process to be complicated. In order for some companies to be able to afford the premiums for Obamacare they have resorted to having to cut hours from their employees to under 40
With every new election comes new legislature the 2008 election had to deal with the hot new topic the Affordable Health Care Act (ACA). Then when Barack Obama was elected into office, he wanted it to be changed to Obamacare. Obamacare and the ACA is relatively the same thing. It is referred to as Obamacare because he is the one who signed for it to be passed. Due to the stress that Obamacare has put on the elderly, state businesses and small local business’s think that the United States should discontinue Obamacare during the next administration.
The goals of Obamacare were originally to increase the number of Americans covered by health insurance, streamline the delivery of health care services, and to reduce the overall costs of health care for everyone by restricting certain insurance company practices and providing tax credits and subsidies for individuals and businesses. These goals do sound promising, but they have completely missed the mark. Obamacare has
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.
The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) from being introduced in 2010 has not been well received by the public. Two main consequences are economic issues, and many states rejecting the act. Economic issues are relevant because it is assumed that insurance premiums are increased, rising cost increases during a recession, mandated benefits and other costs will be passed on to consumers and billions of dollars will be taken from seniors Medicare benefits. In addition, a requirement of the act is that insurance companies spend at least 50-80 percent of premium dollars on medical care, which will lead to less consumer choice and higher prices. Many states are choosing to reject the act
One of the most controversial policies implemented by President Obama and the Democratic Party was the Affordable Care Act of 2010. The Affordable Care Act aimed to cut the rate of uninsured Americans and increase the quality of healthcare that they were receiving. While this has been somewhat effective in its own regard, there is much more room for improvement. Now that insurance companies have to cover a broader scope of people, including those with pre-existing conditions, many Americans that previously had health insurance have witnessed a spike in their premium rates. This, along with an increase in new taxes on products such as medical devices and pharmaceuticals, subsidizes the costs of the Affordable Care Act; those with high incomes also received a higher tax rates.
For these 11 million people Obamacare is one of the greatest acts passed by congress, it has helped them get the healthcare/insurance that they need. Out of the population, Obamacare was heavily targeted on the lower society and trying to make healthcare more affordable for those who can’t get it, “11 million people have signed up ... of which about half will be from the uninsured population,” according to the statistic it is giving 6.5 million of them didn't have insurance that meant that the government has given those people access to healthcare which they didn’t have before. But with much cheaper health insurance comes other costs, such as how the quality of healthcare has dropped and now “55% of doctors already refuse new Medicaid patients.” With almost 6.5 million new people who has been coming, the lines for health care have been drastically increased to the point where most people who have signed up for Obamacare cannot even receive care due to long waiting times. Obamacare, all in all, still has been very beneficial for the lower class giving them many opportunities to get the help and aid that they need to
Obamacare aims to let citizens have their own health care and to make health care more affordable. According to CNN, when
“ObamaCare contains many benefits, especially for low and middle income families and business” (“ObamaCare: Pros and Cons”). Many people have been having concerns on the cost of the insurance because it has raised in cost. There is a new law out there that President Barack Obama passed called ObamaCare. ObamaCare is also known to be The Affordable Care Act (ACA). The goal of this act was to make sure every American had health insurance by January 2014. ObamaCare went from being something good, to a controversial issue towards Americans. This topic is very debatable in positive and negative ways, it just all depends on how it effects someone. One of ObamaCare’s requirements were to have companies provide health insurance to people
The proposed health care reform bill attempts to change issues of public policy and health care management for the poor and uninsured. Many leaders from the Democratic Party are actively engaging in policy-making to fix what Rep. Henry Waxman (D-California) calls a “‘dysfunctional’ health care system” (2009). Currently, the U.S. health care system denies people with pre-existing conditions from receiving care. Another problem with the system is that the health insurance that some employers offer may be so expensive that their employees cannot afford it. Any cuts in Medicaid may mean that physicians have fewer incentives to provide adequate care for the poor. These are some of the many problems that the Affordable Health Choices Act attempts to address. Fiscally conservative political and business groups oppose this measure because they believe that any changes in public policy and health care management might affect them negatively.
In 2007, was when the most current economic decline was introduced. Even when the U.S. is weakening, ObamaCare will diminish the labor force size even more. It's odd that intelligent people let welfare systems run as they do; state representatives should change these systems and make better systems the encourage good parenting (Welfare, SSI Systems Are Being Abused by Irresponsible Parents). State representatives should be working on chaining the welfare system and how it operates. There are a great deal of people who are on the welfare program. There are so many people that have welfare, that it would be very difficult to give them all jobs. If people could be responsible for their own children, welfare wouldn't even be needed. "Welfare is hurting society as well. People would rather have another baby than give up their welfare and go to work." (Welfare, SSI Systems Are Being Abused by Irresponsible Parents). People don't want to work, they just want handouts to pass by in life. Medicaid disposals grew by about 100.2% throughout the years past. Poverty will only get worse with ObamaCare continuing to exist. Essentially, ObamaCare is corrupting society. This displays how careless the government is about money in society.