What the United States tried to create is a country with no sick man, woman or child gone without care, or being unable to afford his or her medicinal needs. This is what the United States attempted to do when they wrote up and applied Obamacare, also known as the Affordable Care Act. However, Obamacare has become a liability, and is on set to destroy our current healthcare system. Obamacare should be abolished because of the increase in cost of health insurance, and the misconception that Obamacare is helping our system. The Affordable Care Act should be outlawed because of the increase in cost of health insurance. As stated in the title of this “act”, it is referred to as “affordable”. However, “Big health insurance companies are predicting huge premium increases next year for small employers and people who buy coverage on their own, citing rising healthcare costs and new mandates from President Barack Obama's health care reform law” (Young). There are so many reasons as to why the cost of many peoples premiums are increasing, one of the biggest being large business dropping the company-wide health coverage. It is said that Obamacare will raise the average health care premium by 32% because larger health care companies are being forced to insure even more sick people (Kelly). bigger businesses are dropping people off of their health care plans, and forcing people have to buy their own and are paying much more than they would have through their employer. Pro advocates of Obamacare would say that Obamacare was made to reform healthcre and make health insurance affordable, and that its working. However, by the end of 2013, the average premiums for Obamacare plans were 41 percent higher than what people had paid the year before (Mc... ... middle of paper ... ...ooded trick, pushing them into supporting the law until it was much too late. This outrageous law must undergo an extreme annulment in order to restore peace to the price of health care premiums, and to relieve everyone of carrying around the heavy burden of this deceitful enactment. President Obama and his Health Care Act are going to constantly be increasing the prices of everyones health care. From giving big businesses ultimatums between heavy taxes or dropping health coverage, all the way to increasing an elderly womans cost of insurance by ten fold. Above its price is the fact of how the President and all of his “co-workers” led everyone to believe that this was something that was to help this country with its health care struggles, and could not follow through with what he said. This law has been evasive and deceptive, and deserved to be exposed to the public.
One of the most controversial topics in the United States in recent years has been the route which should be undertaken in overhauling the healthcare system for the millions of Americans who are currently uninsured. It is important to note that the goal of the Affordable Care Act is to make healthcare affordable; it provides low-cost, government-subsidized insurance options through the State Health Insurance Marketplace (Amadeo 1). Our current president, Barack Obama, made it one of his goals to bring healthcare to all Americans through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. This plan, which has been termed “Obamacare”, has come under scrutiny from many Americans, but has also received a large amount of support in turn for a variety of reasons. Some of these reasons include a decrease in insurance discrimination on the basis of health or gender and affordable healthcare coverage for the millions of uninsured. The opposition to this act has cited increased costs and debt accumulation, a reduction in employer healthcare coverage options, as well as a penalization of those already using private healthcare insurance.
The aim of affordable care act (ACA) was to extend health insurance coverage to around 15% of US population who lack it. These include people with no coverage from their employers and don’t have coverage by US health programs like Medicaid (Retrieved from, https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/affordable-care-act/). To achieve this, the law required all Americans to have health insurance which is a reason of controversy because, it was inappropriate intrusion of government into the massive health care industry and insult to personal liberty. To make health care more affordable subsidies are offered and the cost of the insurance was supposed to be reduced by bringing younger, healthier people to the health insurance system. This could be controversial, if older, sicker people who need the coverage most enter the market but younger group decline to do so. The insurance pool will be unbalanced and the cost of coverage will rise correspondingly.
Although the Affordable Care Act does potentially have some positive effects to it, like bringing affordable health insurance to uninsured Americans; the Act does also have “Section 1342 of the ACA makes taxpayers responsible for bailing out insurance companies if the need to do so arises.” (MacKenzie, Tragic Problems With the (Un)Affordable Care Act). Although tax payers are legally obligated to finance federal programs such as the ACA, there are many who do not believe this is fiscally responsible. “Economist Laurence Kotlikoff estimates that average rates of taxation would have to rise 56% to cover projected increases in federal expenditures.” (MacKenzie, Tragic Problems With the (Un)Affordable Care Act).
Obamacare has been very detrimental to the national economy. People just don't like paying taxes. PERIOD! WIth obama's health care system it forces everyone to have insurance and who pays for it? Tax payers. Instead of putting it into the betterment of society like infrastructure or education it goes to old people who don't deserve it or the poor. My taxes should not go to the poor they should stop being lazy and doing drugs. Because of obamacare insurance rates have skyrocketed, the middle class , THE HARD WORKERS! Have to pay because of other people's incompetence. Insurance is a money making industry and this “affordable care act:” the mere tittle is contradicting to what they did.
As part of the Affordable Care Act, beginning this year Medicaid will expand eligibility to include all uninsured individuals under the age of 65 whose incomes fall at or below 138 percent of the Federal Poverty Level, or about $32,500 for a family of four. However, the 2012 Supreme Court ruling that upheld the law also allowed states more flexibility concerning what parts of the ACA they can implement and said that those same states would not lose federal funding for their existing programs. This result would leave the decision to opt out of the law's provision into the hands of state legislators. While twenty-six states have chosen to expand healthcare coverage, twenty-one states have not and four have yet to make a decision. The state of Florida is among those not seeking to expand coverage and that decision alone could cost Florida millions of dollars a year in tax penalties. As conservative and liberal state lawmakers square off into a maelstrom of debate over whether Medicaid should cover more people, thousands of uninsured Floridians will be caught in the crossfire.
In recent years, the number of Americans who are uninsured has reached over 45 million citizens, with millions more who only have the very basic of insurance, effectively under insured. With the growing budget cuts to medicaid and the decreasing amount of employers cutting back on their health insurance options, more and more americans are put into positions with poor health care or no access to it at all. At the heart of the issue stems two roots, one concerning the morality of universal health care and the other concerning the economic effects. Many believe that health care reform at a national level is impossible or impractical, and so for too long now our citizens have stood by as our flawed health-care system has transformed into an unfixable mess. The good that universal healthcare would bring to our nation far outweighs the bad, however, so, sooner rather than later, it is important for us to strive towards a society where all people have access to healthcare.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed by President Barack Obama is a significant change of the American healthcare system since insurance plans programs like Medicare and Medicaid (“Introduction to”). As a result, “It is also one of the most hotly contested, publicly maligned, and politically divisive pieces of legislation the country has ever seen” (“Introduction to”). The Affordable Care Act should be changed because it grants the government too much control over the citizen’s healthcare or the lack of individual freedom to choose affordable health insurance.
Obamacare, a government initiative, is based upon an existing fact in America called ‘privatized medical service’. Obamacare has to work along the lines of private businesses – hospitals and insurers in this sense – in order to carry out a government objective. Medical price tags have not actually changed. Rather they have increased citing that government is now freely subsidizing millions of young Americans. The power of price tagging still belongs to the private sector but the access of funds leads to government coffers. I think the implementation as it stands today is a disaster, promoting inefficient government spending and medical
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a federal that was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010 to systematically improve, reform, and structure the healthcare system. The ACA’s ultimate goal is to promote the health outcomes of an individual by reducing costs. Previously known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the ACA was established in order to increase the superiority, accessibility, and affordability of health insurance. President Obama has indicated the ACA is fully paid for and by staying under the original $900 billion dollar budget; it will be able to provide around 94% of Americans with coverage. In addition, the ACA has implemented that implemented that insurance companies can no longer deny c...
is the wealthiest country in the world and yet it is the only major industrialized country in the world that does not guarantee health care as a right to its citizens. Around 45,000 uninsured Americans die each year(What The U.S.). As a nation built upon the ideals of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness” and the idea that the government is responsible for protecting it’s people’s basic rights, it is a great source of shame that the U.S. does not have universal health care. It is the government’s job to ensure it’s citizens’ rights, not make a profit off their suffering and the denial of one of their basic rights. Universal health care could save lives and ease suffering, physically, financially, and emotionally. It would take away a great financial burden off of each individual as well as the nation and government as a whole by not wasting all the per capita that we currently waste without universal health care. It would even be beneficial to capitalism because people would be more willing to take risks without the fear of having to go medically uninsured (Why The U.S.). By allowing its people to suffer and die, especially just to make a profit that will be needlessly wasted anyway, the U.S. government is committing a great immorality. Are not human lives more important than allowing greedy independent companies make a profit off of their suffering and deaths? As a country that is even willing to go to wars to protect the basic rights of foreign peoples,
There is an ongoing debate on the topic of how to fix the health care system in America. Some believe that there should be a Single Payer system that ensures all health care costs are covered by the government, and the people that want a Public Option system believe that there should be no government interference with paying for individual’s health care costs. In 1993, President Bill Clinton introduced the Health Security Act. Its goal was to provide universal health care for America. There was a lot of controversy throughout the nation whether this Act was going in the right direction, and in 1994, the Act died. Since then there have been multiple other attempts to fix the health care situation, but those attempts have not succeeded. The Affordable Care Act was passed in the senate on December 24, 2009, and passed in the house on March 21, 2010. President Obama signed it into law on March 23 (Obamacare Facts). This indeed was a step forward to end the debate about health care, and began to establish the middle ground for people in America. In order for America to stay on track to rebuild the health care system, we need to keep going in the same direction and expand our horizons by keeping and adding on to the Affordable Care Act so every citizen is content.
When Obamacare, a law passed to guarantee affordable health insurance to all Americans, was put into action it received many responses, and not all of them were positive. Obamacare was portrayed to be a great healthcare initiative and many people supported it. When the law was passed, however, it was revealed that most of it was a big lie. Obamacare should be taken away due to the many problems it has and unbeneficial results it produces, such as, unaffordable health care means fewer people have jobs, the benefits described are not near as nice as they were made out to be, and it is impossible to provide insurance for everybody in the United Sates without raising taxes.
Less than a quarter of uninsured Americans believe the Affordable Care Act is a good idea. According to experts, more than 87 million Americans could lose their current health care plan under the Affordable Care Act. This seems to provide enough evidence that the Affordable Care Act is doing the exact opposite of what Democrats promised it would do. On the other hand, this law includes the largest health care tax cut in history for middle class families, helping to make insurance much more affordable for millions of families. The Affordable Care Act has been widely discussed and debated, but remains widely misunderstood.
Obama care is not what our country needs because paying the high obnoxious taxes just to support the poor and huddled masses is wrong. Well guess what ignorance needs to be put to death and I am here to inform you about how obamacare stinks!
The Affordable Care Act in its first draft was a basic expansion of the Medicare/Medicaid programs to include everyone in the United States. Instead, after the fighting on Capitol Hill the law changed dramatically. Now we have to pay into an insurance plan from private companies unless a state decides to expand their Medicaid/Medicare system to truly make insurance affordable. A considerable number of state governments are still voting against a Medicare/Medicaid expansion in their state. State representatives are voting to refuse the federal funding that would benefit several Americans without access to affordable health care. It is ultimately up to the people to hold their representatives accountable by voting them in or out of office. The new health care plans of today and of the future bring us closer to our goal of universal health care. Therefore we must look to the past to move the discussion for universal health care forward. Considering everyone deserves a roof over their head, food in their belly, and access to health care; we must come agree upon a