The Complexities of Healthcare Reform in the United States

Despite reservations amongst Republicans, President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act on March 23, 2010. This law was set to give coverage to 32 million uninsured citizens, introduces subsides so that middle and lower income families can more easily purchase insurance and stops insurers from refusing health coverage to people with preexistent illnesses (Clemmitt, 2010). Evaluating this law five years after it’s signing, the percentage of U.S. adults without insurance dropped 4.5 percent to 11.9 percent in early 2015. Attitudes towards the law have improved with an increasing number of people seeing its benefits over time and although there have been issues with the law, the rate of the growth of health care spending has actually decreased, with a 2013 rate of only 3.6 percent (Vaida, 2015). This current plan isn’t perfect and America still sees its civilization with countless uninsured individuals but it is a step in the right direction. Our nation won’t see a working universal health coverage system until a majority is on the same page regarding the issue and realize idealized results. The quickest way for America to come to this is for states to model other nations and develop their own individual plans so that our society can discover the most efficient option. It may be a single payer system or a government aided pluralistic system (Tanne, 2007), but experimenting with what is successful and what has potential to work is key to finding America’s perfect health-coverage fit and improving our efficiency of spending towards it (Clemmitt,

Since June 6, 2009, President Barack Obama has told the American public numerous 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 disinherit your plan and, you must 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, a majority of Americans do not know what it is and how it affects them. While Obamacare does attempt to amend some of the

During the formation of the United States of America, the founding fathers had difficulty to agree on common issues due to their conflicting political stances. The intention of each political party is to form a solution that is in the best interest of the citizens in the U.S and of how to govern the US following its independence from Great Britain. It is safe to conclude that some Americans base their decisions on family affiliations rather than viewing each economic, social, and political problem differently to make an informed decision. The presidential nomination of then Senator Barack Obama marked the country's breakthrough in recent years during the 2008 election. Trends showed favoritism among the young, college-aged population when he ran for office his first time. He won their votes, along with other voters, based on general social and economic proposals he intends to solve. During the President's first and second term, his administration seeks to resolve the healthcare concern, a major political and economic problem, which is causing the country's deficit to swell. On March 23, 2010, President Obama (Whitehouse.gov, 2014) signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), commonly known as "Obamacare," into law. Unfortunately, the United States of America have not come to a unanimous agreement about Obamacare. All together it seems not every person will approve every presidential decision in the country, but Obama’s health care act has sparked some more

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), also known as the Affordable Care Act or “Obamacare,” is a federal law that forever changed America on March 23, 2010. The intention of this law is to provide millions of American citizens who are uninsured or underinsured with reasonable and affordable healthcare coverage. Unfortunately, the law has failed to do so in several ways and has actually created hardship for millions of Americans – some of which were fully covered before the law was put into effect. The name of the legislative act is a mouthful, but its name is nothing compared its 2,700 pages of content that congress “read” before they passed it into law. This law continues to divide the nation and both sides are strong in their beliefs, creating heated discussions and bitter arguments. Proponents of the law feel it is the nation’s duty to grant everybody coverage whereas those that oppose the bill are alarmed at the fiscal implications it brings. Some people have signed up for Medicaid and consigned to a lifetime of poor health care. Others have obtained access to subsidized exchanges, but will find it harder to find employment and make enough to support themselves as a result. Ironically, the most affected population are citizens that already have insurance and paying thousands of dollars per year that will now be squeezed even harder by this

The implementation of the healthcare reform to the people throughout the United States provides healthcare coverage to all Americans increasing the accessibility to quality healthcare coverage making it more affordable for families. Throughout this paper I will discuss how effective the healthcare reform has been for the state of Pennsylvania, describing what the positive and negative outcomes are, and how the it has impacted the community health within my state. I will further discuss what effects the health care reform has had on economics in health care within my state.

There are Currently 32 million people without health insurance in the United States. This means that roughly 83 per cent of citizens have to live day by day hoping they won’t get sick. For this reason, President Obama signed the U.S health reform bill into law. The health reform will make health care more affordable for citizens. Employers with more than 50 employees will be forced to provide coverage for all, or they will have to pay a fine. It will also make health insures more responsible. For example, health insurance carriers are forbidden from placing lifetime dollar limits on policies, from denying coverage to children because of pre-existing conditions, and from canceling policies because someone gets sick. It will also expand

In my view The Patients’ Choice Act that was introduced by Paul Ryan in 2009 would have been a better choice for the new health care reform than The Affordable Care Act. Even though there is no health care crisis of the uninsured, Ryan’s plan would have involved incentives for preventive care that could lower the cost of premiums and encourage healthier lifestyles. Under The Patients’ Choice Act, the American people retain their freedom whether to have health care or not; however the ACA has a personal mandate that requires individuals to carry health care insurance or face a fine (tax). There are consequences when people feel they have a right to health care instead of working for it. Ryan’s

In 2010, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, PPACA, or ACA, became a law. This act, along with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, comprise the health care reform platform initiated and signed by President Obama. For the American public, there are abundant reasons for dissatisfaction: “higher costs; arbitrary and sometimes absurd rulemaking; bureaucratization of an already overly bureaucratized sector of the economy; incompatibility with personal freedom and religious liberty; enormous spending and heavy taxation; and widely acknowledged design flaws, evident in the ACA’s hopelessly complex and unworkable subsidy schemes, boondoggle bailouts, and collapsing co-ops” (Moffit, 2016). For many Americans, opposition to the Affordable Care Act is rightly rooted in their rejection of the tactics and assumptions underlying its structural design.

ObamaCare, also known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, is a Health care reform law that was signed on March 23, 2010. ObamaCare’s goal is to provide more Americans with affordable health care insurance. ObamaCare also hopes to improve the quality of healthcare and health insurance in America, regulate the healthcare industry, and reduce the cost of healthcare in the United States. ObamaCare is made up of ten titles; I: Quality, Affordable Healthcare for all United State Citizens, II: The Role of Public Programs, III: Improving the Quality and Efficiency of Healthcare, IV: Prevention of Chronic Disease and Improving Public Health, V: Healthcare Workforce, VI: Transparency

“We will be moving further away from humanity-based health care and more towards the patient as a commodity. This was not the way my father practiced—nor will I.” This quote, from a surgeon in Michigan, was only one of many quotes gathered by The Doctors Company, which is the largest insurer of physician and surgeon medical liability in the nation, when they asked over 5,100 doctors about their thoughts on different aspects of Health Care Reform. American health care reform is something that was nearly seventy-five years in the making; since Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. presidents have struggled to enact health care reform, and most failed (Health Affairs). In September of 2009, President Barrack Obama addressed Congress with his proposed solution, it was called The Affordable Care Act (ACA). In this Act, Obama attempted to address a need most every American desired: to keep health insurance companies accountable for their customers’ health by preventing the companies from dropping someone from their plan, or denying their policyholders health insurance coverage if they had a pre-existing medical condition. The ACA also implemented an individual mandate which required almost all U.S. citizens and legal residents of America to carry health insurance coverage, or they would be subject to a fine.

A survey composed by Washington Post-ABC News found that an astonishing forty-four percent of surveyors believed that the United States’ health care system has gotten worse in the past few years. What caused this? The Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (Forbes 25). This startling fact reveals that the act, commonly known as Obamacare, has negatively influenced Americans’ opinions on their health care. Passed in 2010, the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act mandated health care coverage for every United States citizen. The debate over public health care had been going on for decades, and under President Obama’s administration, it became a reality in America. Unfortunately, the act caused major issues. The Affordable Care Act

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka “Health Care Reform Act”) signed into law earlier this year by President Obama is potentially the most significant change in health care and health-benefits law ever passed, as some commentators believe it will lead to greater collective changes in the provision of health-care benefits than the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), Medicare, and Medicaid combined. According to the Obama administration, the main purpose of the ACA is to reduce health care costs, guarantee health insurance to all Americans regardless of preexisting

U.S. health care reform is currently one of the most heavily discussed topics in health discourse and politics. After former President Clinton’s failed attempt at health care reform in the mid-1990s, the Bush administration showed no serious efforts at achieving universal health coverage for the millions of uninsured Americans. With Barack Obama as the current U.S. President, health care reform is once again a top priority. President Obama has made a promise to “provide affordable, comprehensive, and portable health coverage for all Americans…” by the end of his first term (Barackobama.com). The heated debate between the two major political parties over health care reform revolves around how to pay for it and more importantly, whether it

Something has gone terribly wrong with the healthcare available for citizens in America. There is an ongoing debate as to how the problem should be addressed. Our current President, Barack Obama, had a campaign platform that assured every American that he would push for universal health care in the United States. He attempted to enact legislation for universal healthcare that was initially blocked by the Courts based on Constitutional grounds. The Supreme Court heard arguments on March 12, 2012, and the plan was eventually given the nod to go forward (National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius). Finally, in 2014 the first year of an attempt at a universal healthcare program was implemented. Currently, there are some problems with the implementation of the program, and many people do not seem to fully understand it. Although the new mandatory healthcare plan may have some flaws, the right to basic health care should be available and affordable to every United States citizen.

A lot of Americans are putting all their attention on healthcare, which is good, but [Americans] do not need to lose sight of the people in Congress because they are the ones that created it and now Americans need to get rid of these liberals and prevent such a thing like this from happening again (Langer, 1). One of the many regulations is healthcare and that "There hardly could be a more inapt title for the Obamacare legislation than the "Patient Protection and Affordable Act"-which basically provides protection for the consumer and gives you new coverage options to help you better understand the Obamacare implemented by Congress (Katz, 1). Obama's plan for an