This Is Not My America

Senior citizens across the country who cant afford regular health care prices use medicade to lower their price, and The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 is making it more difficult for seniors to recieve Medicade help practically taking all the relief given to senior citizens with obamacare. The effects on senior citizens will be catastrophic there will be a shortage of 95,000 doctors due to pay cuts. Which will make it to where less and less people can be seen by a doctor each day. Seniors, in fact, will have to pay at least ten percent more than their usual medicare plan due to tax

On the other hand, the opposition argues that this reform will hurt more than it will benefit. “Senior citizens get this more than any other segment of our population, because they know in Obamacare the president of the United States took away $500 billion -- a half-trillion dollars -- out of Medicare, shifted it to Obamacare to pay for younger people. And it's senior

Healthcare reform has become an important issue with many Americans since the passage of the Patient Protection and the Affordable Care Act in 2010. It took years of fighting and refining the bill before it became law, and it represents the lasting legacy of the Obama administration. The Act will allow millions of Americans who were previously uninsured to gain coverage through expanded Medicaid and Medicare programs or through federal or state insurance exchanges. Although the idea of providing healthcare to those who need it but can’t afford it is a noble one, one major question remains. Who will pay for the increase costs associated with expanding coverage? Health insurance is predicated on the spreading of risk. The young and healthy are used to subsidize the cost associated with the care of the old and unhealthy. Congress attempted to address this by placing within the Affordable Care Act a provision which imposes a “tax” of one percent of taxable income on any American who chose not to purchase insurance coverage with the tax increasing every year up to 2.5% for every year they go without coverage. Despite this provision many young Americans are opting out of health coverage and instead will pay the tax. Younger people are making this choice because the tax they pay will ultimately cost them less than a year’s worth of coverage. Not having the younger population covering the costs of the unhealthy could lead to a “death spiral” because private insurance companies are

Notably, the elderly populace is growing rapidly, and will reach 3.4 million or 12.8% of the population. Eventually, in the next thirty years older adults will comprise of 20% of the total population due to the aging of 76 million baby boomers (Olson, 2001). Seeing that, entitlement programs and means-tested benefits, are presented, in order to bolster this increment of older adults. Accordingly, around 96% of the American workforce is secured by Social Security and it is likewise estimated that 58 million American will receive a total of $816 billion in Social Security benefits (Moody and Sasser, 2015). In fact, today 56 million or 17% of the population is enlisted in Medicare (Leonard, 2015). Therefore, this has presented an open deliberation about the eventual fate of Medicare and Social Security and regardless of whether changing Medicare and Social Security to means-tested benefits, instead of entitlement programs can resolve the policy issues.

Medicare and Medicaid has been providing huge benefits for senior citizens and low income families. The one question nobody seems to answer is how are we going to afford this type of insurance? Maya Rockeymoore argues in her article, “Groundless Fears about Medicaid and Medicare,” that we are able to afford this as long as we make good decisions. Rockeymoore claims that we need to keep Medicare and Medicaid or our country will fall apart.

The government shouldn’t have to be involved with providing this type of insurance, or welfare, to the elderly but without the government’s involvement there would be nothing available. Insurance programs with their selfish and strict rules would never willingly accept seniors or have created a program as amazing as the Medicare program. Even though the government is better off not getting involved in certain areas, they are much needed in the health care industry because they have a slight involvement with the improvement of life. Medicare would fail at this point without the government's involvement. Health care is very dependent on insurance now and Medicare provides this in those markets. Paul Krugman, from Seattle Times, reported that many Americans are still not aware of the government's role in health care and while many seniors do not want the government to get involved, it is too late because the government is keeping

Even when the Congress has engaged in various notions trying to eradicate unemployment in America, this has grown to be a major issue that is affecting the country up and down. The writer says, congress claims that emphasizing border control and increased law enforcement will reduce on the number of illegal immigrants

One of the economic issues we see today in the United States is the unemployment rate. In the article "Why doesn't 4.9% unemployment feel great?" by Heather Long, she explains why even though unemployment rate has decreased, people still are not satisfied. For the first time since the great great recession in 2008, the employment rate has fallen below 5% in the United States. Obama says he does not get enough credit for creating 14 million jobs, and that we should be proud how long we have come after the biggest economic crisis since the 1930's. Long also refers to Bernie Sanders, a democratic candidate for the U.S. presidential election in 2016, who says that the economy is "rigged," and that the real rate is higher than 5% (Heather Long, "Why doesn't 4.9% unemployment feel great?").

In America, these jobs come with benefits and pay. In order to bring the jobs back that we lost, we would have to do one of two things. One path of action we can take is to become more socialized, and force CEOs to make less in order to cover minimum wages and insurance benefits, while using less effective and more expensive labor (humans.) Alternatively, we abolish the minimum wage, required benefits, maternity leave, and everything else for the employee. The second option, most conservatives rally around. It makes sense to go that path. People want their jobs back. People want to see their family happy and healthy. We all want to see our loved ones and our neighbors excel. It's easy to think this way, when you are told over and over again that your jobs left because you are too expensive. That paying for other people to receive maternity leave, and benefits is why you can no longer afford to eat. The problem is that when those fail-safes are gone, you will be working for pennies on the dollar or be replaced with cheaper technology. You will have no health insurance, no unemployment, no food stamps, and no access to education to learn a new career. You are fighting technological progress, not socialism. It is only a matter of time until 99% of the jobs you are fighting to get back are completely

The blue-collar worker’s paycheck is dependent much on the factories and mines jobs, but those jobs are slowly going away because of the new types of businesses that have opened up today. The new businesses now require at least a college degree and some years of experience. Out of desperation the white men and women without a college degree made up a third of 2016 electorate (Tankersley). Three-quarters of the uneducated population said that the economy was pretty bad and had seen little to zero improvements on their financial situation. Two-thirds said that they preferred Trump to manage their economy rather than Hillary Clinton (Tankersley). This analysis was because of Trump’s idea to deport the immigrants that are taking their jobs away. That ideology was the spark that leads him to gain many voters on his side. Trump promised the working class whites that he would restore the old industrial economy. He said that he would accomplish that by renegotiating trade deals and tariffs on imports by deporting immigrants, that would help reduce competition from the native-born workers. He also promised economic growth from tax cuts, deregulation and more drilling (Tankrsley). However, Trump’s ideas on tariffs will technically not bring back jobs because he relies on unreliable sources and is always inconsistent with his

Americans believe that they are competing with immigrants living in the country without work permits. The unemployment rate of US is 5.5 in May of 2015 but later that month increased to nearly 70,000 people. The common job for an immigrant is construction, restaurants, or agriculture because they don’t compel them to speak fluent English. On the negative side for a daily American, most employers will hire illegal immigrants knowing that they will pay them lower than minimum wage. Businesses in the US would hire more illegal people rather than Americans due to them having to pay Americans at least the minimum salary. Consequently, I believe that illegal immigration is bad for our economy due to illegal people taking jobs away from people who have college degrees and who have worked hard enough to get that job. July 11, 2015 Donald Trump, a presidential candidate speaks at a campaign event in Arizona. Trump states “They are taking our jobs. They are taking our money. They are killing us!” I believe that any intelligent republican candidate that is running for office will take action and put work into trying to get the unemployment rate as small as

In 1957 congressmen by the names of Aime Forand and Cecil King thought that they might “cover some of the medical costs of the growing number of Americans over the age of sixty-five” (Zelizer). Because people at this older age were in desperate need of medical care and not able to provide it for themselves, these two congressmen helped pay for their care. After these two men “started” Medicare people began to be required to pay for Medicare costs, seeing that people over the age of 65 are more prone to be in need of medical attention (ibid). Logically we should aid the people meeting this criteria to better the health of the elderly in society, but as these people pay their Medicare bills they should do so according to how much they will need such aid in their own futures.

Lets go into the Obama Care and Medicare in the case of the senior citizens living in America.

First, in order to better understand the scale of the problem let’s take a closer look at the numbers. Since late 2007, nearly 8.5 million jobs were lost; in

Eliminating unnecessary taxes and fees can be a huge benefit to many senior citizens who have no other income besides Social Security.