What Is The Heart Of Gop's Medicaid Plan?

With President J. Donald Trump been sworn in as the president of the United States, it was obvious that it was only going to be a matter of time before his government started the process of repealing Obamacare. Indeed, during his presidential campaigns, President Donald Trump had made it very clear that he was going to repeal the Act and

Congress voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) today, May 5, 2017. This means that HR 1628 will move to the Senate for a vote. If the Senate chooses to repeal the ACA is well, which may be unlikely given its current text, it will then go to President Trump for a signature. It is highly unlikely that President Trump will veto the bill, as one of his campaign promises was to repeal the ACA. It is also unlikely that the Supreme Court will accept a court case regarding the Constitutionality of its repeal.

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.

The objective was clear the time for health-care reform was now, how that objective was going to be met was unclear. In William Custer’s article Risk Adjustment and the Affordable Care Act states, “There has been a sharp decline in private coverage over the last decade, and concurrent increases in public coverage and the number of uninsured” (Custer PhD, 2013). The passage of the Affordable Care Act set out in grand fashion to meet overcome some of these challenges. House Bill 3590 titled the Affordable Care Act provides changes to some very vital areas of medical coverage, including such things as: no lifetime or annual coverage limits, prohibition of rescissions, coverage of preventative health services and extension of dependent coverage and the creation of uniform explanation of coverage documents and standardized definitions (House of Representatives, 2010). Individuals who have major medical conditions will no longer struggle to maintain the coverage they so desperately need to care for their medical condition and maintain the best quality health condition. Health Insurance providers can no longer deny coverage to an individual due to a medical condition, pre-existing or newly diagnosed. Arguably one of the key areas in regards to improved health coverage was in the area of preventative health services. Insuring dependants to the age of 26 will dramatically increase the

Obamacare is like a seesaw. Either a person has to be all the way at the bottom, or in this case poor, to receive Medicaid, or all the way at the top, or upper class, to afford to buy health insurance outside of employer coverage. There is no happy medium or room for the middle class. The desecration of the middle class is one of the casualties due to the implementation of Obamacare. Although many people believe Obamacare is a great concept, it still has plenty of room for improvement. Especially , with the government no reimbursing the insurance companies, insurers not anticipating all the sick people they have to cover, and how this situation has affected american citizens .

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.

Controversy surrounds The Affordable Care Act (ACA). Some Americans are for it and some Americans are against it. Whether you agree with the Act or not, let’s not forget it is still the law. Now, the question remains how long will it stay in place with the President elect? What exactly is the Affordable Care Act? Per (obamacarefacts.com), the ACA was signed into law March 23, 2010 by President Obama. The law requires all Americans to have health insurance by 2014. If you do not obtain health insurance, you must pay per month for each month you did not have insurance (obamacarefacts.com). The law also allowed states to opt out of expanding Medicaid (obamacarefacts.com). According to (hhs.gov) the ACA has improved access, increase the quality

As more provisions of the affordable care act continue to be implemented many find controversy ineffectiveness of the new health plan. On an annual basis the correlation seems to grow more positive on one end, and more negative on the other. Since the start of (2014), the approval percentage of the Affordable Care Act has increased from 10% to 16%, while the percentage saying it has hurt them has also gone up, and by a similar amount, from 19% to 27% (Riffkin, 2014). Overall 41% Americans approve of the affordable care act in comparison to 53% of Americans that disapprove. The complexity of the changes really affects populations differently based on their income levels. The 2010 Affordable Health Care Act passed through congress has

Republicans have long bemoaned the passing of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or as they lovingly refer to it; Obamacare. Tensions between supporters of the ACA and Republican dissenters reached a frenzied peak during the 2016 election cycle with the majority of Republican candidates strongly against the bill. With the election of Donald Trump as the President of the United States along with a Republican majority Congress, the prognosis for the ACA looks bleak. According to Sean Spicer, the White House Press Secretary, President Trump signed an executive order January 20th 2017 to ease the transition from Obamacare to a new standard plan. The current stance of the administration is one of “repeal and

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 the past seven years the American people have had something called Affordable Care Act or else known as Obamacare. The Affordable Care Act was signed into act by President Obama on March 23, 2010 . But, with the election of President Donald Trump we can see that the Obamacare Act can come to an end and be changed with the American Health Care Act, or as most Americans have labeled it as Trumpcare.

The first step into office is a definitive move for every president. The first action represents what his administration will look like for the next four years. The first step can define a legacy. Donald J. Trump has already changed the way America sees politics. He has inspired millions, despite his lack of experience against a formidable foe, Hillary Clinton, to vote for an outsider. In three short days, Trump will take the Oval Office. He arrives whilst splashing into his new career with immediate action. His first plan entails taking down, reforming, and/or repealing the Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as, Obamacare. Obamacare is one of the pride and joys of the last president,

The discussion of Obamacare is on the lips of every Republican in the US Government. According to Sally Driscoll and Richard Grant, authors of “Counterpoint: The Free Market is More Effective at Improving Healthcare and Lowering Cost Than the Government”, the key to solving the non stop increasing cost of medical care and the number of citizens that are not insured is not a liberal payer (like single-payer) or even a non conservative (like total deregulation), but somewhere in the middle. The country needs a program that would broaden the competitiveness among the healthcare industry, and Obamacare will help every American

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).

Healthcare has emerged as a primary topic of debate recently given the rhetoric of president Trump on “repealing and replacing” our current system. His ideal replacement, which he failed to pass through the senate, has a favorability rating of 16% according to Mark Murray of NBC news (4). The GOP health care bill is projected by many healthcare experts, including Noam M. Levey of the LA times, who implies that this bill will lead to a spike in the number of uninsured Americans; this proposition also includes tax cuts, along with progressive cuts (over time) to medicaid spending from the house and senate