The Argument Against the Health Care Reform Law

"Let there be no doubt. Health care reform cannot wait, it must not wait, and it will not wait another year," President Barack Obama proudly stated (New 1). As soon as President Obama was elected into the White House, he made it a mission to get a Health Care Bill passed. On March 21, 2010, Congress passed the first draft of the monumental Health Care Bill. This bill was passed so quickly that citizens of the United States never got a chance to fully understand the pros and cons of the bill. Congress was allowed to read the bill within a 72 hour time frame. When the bill was brought to the Congress's floor, representatives and senators had a full day to debate and vote in favor or against. Due to positive promotion of the Health Care Bill,

The Affordable Care Act was into law March 2010. The law has planned to make wide-range of changes to healthcare in the United States. The Affordable Care Act efforts to offer universal right to use to healthcare for Americans, control the rising costs of healthcare, adjust the private insurance industry complete things like state-based private exchanges and online marketplace that brings together state-approved insurance plans from multiple companies so consumers can shop for individual insurance plans, improve the quality of healthcare and make healthcare choices more consumer friendly and easier to understand (Medical Mutual,2017). Healthcare reform involves nearly all Americans from old or young,

Either way, those who do not benefit from this Obamacare will have to pay for it as well. This is due to the increase of taxes that will be implemented throughout the country to help support the new system. Many would say that raising taxes to those who do not have access to the affordable health care system is unjust because they do not benefit from this new reform act. “Despite the above efforts, some people ended up paying more for health insurance under Obamacare than they did under their previous private plans.” This new form system cannot become an effective reform act if the price will increase for those who do not have the access to this system. “No reform can work well or very long if its costs are unsustainable.” Along with that, for those who were ‘privileged’ to obtain this new health care system were still charged a substantial increase in their health coverage plan.

The foremost concept of the Affordable Care Act was to allow for more poverty-stricken Americans to be able to gain access to health care. Yet, if you widen the amount of people can get free health care, who is meant to pay for them? In order for this new program to work, the US government needed enough young and healthy Americans to pay into the costs of having health care. However, problems began when Americans were finding that it was less expensive to just take the penalty for not having health care. Elementary office secretary, Catherine Moore explained in a personal interview, how a co-worker had also come across this same realization. “I worked with a lady that during the first year [of the Affordable Care Act] it was cheaper for her to take the penalty than to pay for insurance.” So now, not only is the government missing out on money that could have been used to support those who could not afford health care, but it is also encouraging healthy people who may not

Healthcare reform was designed to help people of middle class to below poverty status afford healthcare insurance, in addition to providing quality care for everyone. When the “Affordable Care Act” rolled out, there were a lot of concerns in regards to the cost and mandating that everyone acquire insurance. The objective was to provide access to low cost insurance; unfortunately, some people remained uninsured, as a matter of fact they were unable to afford health insurance due to the amount of wages they earned.

Things are not always what they seem. The Republican Party has now captured the House of Representatives and the Senate. The results of the mid-term elections were not surprising, since history has shown that when a president has low approval ratings, the opposing political party usually gains seats in Congress. One of the Republicans’ main arguments was the failure of the Affordable Care Act. Their platform was that they would work on their constituents’ behalf to repeal the health care law. However, reports show that the health care law is working, providing health insurance for many who previously did not have any health insurance. How did the Republicans convince their constituents to believe the contrary? Plato would argue that

Prior to December 2015, the House voted to repeal the ACA over 65 times, but once it was taken up in Senate and the bill died. In January 2016, the Senate took up the House’s bill to repeal, with the next steps of using the Reconciliation process to get through to the President, but Obama vetoed the repeal. We are currently in a position where Republicans have the Senate and the House while Trump holds presidency. There now is a very high chance that this bill if passed from the Senate to the president, it will go through, and this is the worry for many Americans today.

Many paths will lead to the same goal, but which one is the right one for you? This question revolves around the highly debated Affordable Care Act which saves many lives each year and yet different demographics consider repealing this act necessary without a plan to replace it immediately. Because the Affordable Care Act prevents the escalation of diseases and the deaths of the thousands of Americans, the act should not be repealed but only revised to save lives and progress the country in the direction in universal health care because everyone deserves health care. The Affordable Care Act sparked a debate between Democrats and Republicans when President Obama enforced it in 2010 and continues to do so because the amount of control it gave

Ever since announcing his candidacy for the presidency, the now President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, emerged as an anti-Obama regime leader. He vowed that he would scrap off most of the changes that Obama had made when in the presidency (Rovner & Terhune). Some of this included the same-sex marriage legislation and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) which is popularly known as Obamacare. The Obamacare is a policy that had benefited a lot of people in the United States, especially those in the middle and lower class factions of the society. They managed to obtain insurance and were able to access medical care despite the increased costs in service provision. However, President Trump did not completely do away with the ACA but

Currently, “Premiums in 31 states are expected to rise by double digits, while two states will see decreases in 2017 from this year. Premiums in one state — Arizona — are estimated to more than double” (Herron, 1). This means that the cheap alternative that Obamacare once promised may not be available in the coming months. This increase in many states will affect the general population. Unfortunately, these rises could potentially make Obamacare out of reach for low income families. While this price increase doesn’t affect people who receive health care from their jobs, it is hypothesized that it will affect those who are the most ill. “That means that the sickest patients are most likely to be squeezed. They’ll either have to suffer the inconvenience of switching all their doctors and records around, or they’ll have to stomach the biggest increases” (Ableson, 2). This belief is the core of the Republicans argument because not only has Obamacare proved to be relatively inefficient is is shown to likely become a negative force for those who truly need it. If those who truly need it aren’t getting enough coverage now, what happens when the Act is

After over nearly a century and dozens of failed attempts and proposals for Universal Health Care the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was finally passed by Congress in 2010. When the bill was first assembled in the House, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, was able to achieve consensus where others had failed. Pelosi told the three separate Committees that were working on the three bills that they must work together to create one bill, not three separate bills (Emanuel, History of Reform and ACA Overview, Lecture). The bill eventually passed in the Senate after major changes, and the House passed the Senate version. President was finally able to pass the bill making history on universal health care for the US Act (Emanuel, History of Health Reform and ACA Overview 27).

“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

One of the biggest complaints in healthcare is the rising costs.2 In many articles, people complain the healthcare costs have increased significantly and feel that is a direct result of the Affordable Health Care Act. Also, they feel that the cost of implementing the Act itself is way more than what was originally budgeted. Another problem discussed was the government 's role in the making of the Affordable Health Care Act. Many people feel that in the past, the government has made decisions that were geared more toward politics than effectiveness. So in the long run, we spent more money making changes to things that didn 't need to be fixed or fixing something that was not done right the first time. One of the other concerns, who is affected? Who has to pay? Middle class and up is the answer. Wealthy people are getting taxed he most and some do not feel it is fair, because they are the ones who own businesses and create jobs for others.

Position on Topic: Obamacare is one of the most highly argued topics in today’s economics and politics alike. Many people believe that its goal of universal healthcare is a good thing and that healthcare should be a right as a U.S citizen. Others believe that Obamacare is a disaster causing people to pay more unnecessary taxes in order to compensate for people who are unable to pay for healthcare due to poverty status and is economically unfavorable. There are also people who believe it should be kept but many changes need to be made in order to make it effective. Considering both arguments, I believe Obamacare should be repealed and replaced with a new healthcare policy.

Body paragraph 1: One issue that's been debated throughout the 2016 election is healthcare. More specifically Obamacare and Medicare. I agree with Hillary's plan of action; to expand Medicare and uphold Obamacare. She says that “healthcare should be affordable and available in each state.” (Procon.com) Meanwhile Donald Trump’s stance on this issue is that he thinks that Obamacare is a disaster and that it should be demolished. He thinks that it's way too much money and that the lower class citizens aren't able to afford it. Another issue that's come up involving healthcare is the amount of money spent on pharmaceutical drugs. Medicine for high cholesterol is so pricey that it's being debated whether or not we should even have it. $4.6 million