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    Affordable Care Act (PPACA) frequently known as “The Affordable Care Act” (ACA) or “Obamacare,” is the United States decree authorized into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010 (Group, 2014). The principle of the Affordable Care Act was to strengthen the quality and affordability of health insurance and decrease the uninsured tariffs by magnifying public and private insurance exposure. In the community relations ambition for President Obama’s takeover of the American health care system, he

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    The United States spends twice as much per citizen for health insurance as any other country in the entire world, but continues to fall behind other countries when it comes to coverage and quality (Rangel, 2011). There are nearly forty-six million uninsured Americans, and millions more have inadequate coverage. The affordable health care act, was designed to help millions of Americans. But, to Americans it is questionable at best. Obamacare is so fundamentally inconsistent that it is taking Americans

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    Obama care Obamacare is becoming a big deal in the united states and mainly texas. Obama said he was making health care his top priority. If he was making it his top priority then why is he trying to take away guns and passing laws i consider unconstitutional. In my opinion if he wanted to make health care his top priority he would offer it free. But no he is making discounted by what a few dollars. My step-father was trying to get it and was denied for the health care. The man needs that health

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    In this political speech by Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, he talks about planned parenthood and how it benefits women. Obama gave this speech that took on April 26, 2013. Obama goes over women's need for planned parenthood services, health care, and he briefly discussed the new law in North Dakota outlawing a woman's right to choose abortion “starting as early as six weeks, even if a woman is raped” (Remarks). One may pick up on Obama’s passion towards this topic through

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    Some of the positive things of Obama care that affect the average Person is that insurance companies and how they are no longer allowed to deny a person Coverage for having a pre-existing condition. It also takes away annual and lifetime Limits. Another positive aspect is that it allows children to stay on their parent’s Insurance until they are twenty-six years old. That allows young adults to attend college without worrying about getting themselves health insurance. It provides Millions of Americans

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    Obama Care Benefits

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    The official name for “Obama Care” is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), or Affordable Care Act (ACA) for short, is a United States federal statute signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010 and upheld by the Supreme Court on June 28, 2012. The main goal of Obama Care is to reduce the growth in U.S. health care spending and to give more Americans access to affordable, quality health insurance. Many people argue that Obama Care fails to achieve its main goal because

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    feel heath care reform was necessary, health care costs affect the economy, the federal budget, and virtually every American’s family’s financial well-being. According to Obama, “In 2008, the United States devoted 16% of the economy to health care, an increase of almost one-quarter since 1998 (when 13% of the economy was spent on health care), yet much of that spending did not translate into better outcomes for patients” (Obama, 2016, p.526). In 2008, 1 in 7 Americans did not have health insurance

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    Research Paper: Elections 2008 - Barack Obama

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    facing various hardships such as struggling economy, poor health care, two wars, pollution, excessive relying on exported oil and illegal immigration. Both Barack Obama and John McCain expressed in the campaigns their points of views and possible solutions for these problems. Obama, the candidate from the Democratic Party, proposed answers on improvements on situation in the United States. One of the major issues nowadays is the health care. There are many reasons why it is so controversial and needs

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    Obama promised change, then he took on one of Washington's toughest issues; Universal healthcare reform.Obama said that he wanted to be the generation that says, "universal health care in America, we can do that!" He spoke no less than remaking America, but in the end were they just pretty words? "Another day, another headache for president Obama." The president had staked his entire first term on this, and if it fell through his whole presidency could have gone downhill, fast. Everybody loved

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    Health insurance began in the 1930’s when the Great Depression hit the United States. After the great depression it became very noticeable that health coverage was needed to protect the people and get them the health care treatment they needed. Too many people were dying of sickness and not able to afford the treatment. It wasn’t until the government tried to create some type of insurance to help with these costs. Medicare was created in 1965 for the elderly citizens. At that time there was also

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