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Obama Care is a health care law aimed to reform the health care system in America. Its main goal is to give more Americans easy access to good and affordable health care and reduce its spending in the United States. Obama Care regulates health care insurance, not health care as many people come to think of it. This means that it does not replace Medicare or Medicaid; it helps individuals have it at a more affordable price. The Affordable Care Act was signed into law on March 23, 2010 by President Obama and was later upheld on June 28, 2012 by the Supreme Court.

This may be beneficial for the lower income families, but for the greater majority of insured American's 'Obamacare' comes up short. The health care reform bill requires just about every American and businesses to have or provide health insurance with certain benefits or pay a fine. The bill wants to provide a form of Medicare for all. Medicare is a government run health insurance program for Americans over the age of 65, or under with certain disabilities, and patients with kidney failure. Medicare is funded mostly by general revenues and taxes while the remainders of the costs are funded through, premiums, and deductibles.

I mean i thought that what ObamaCare was gonna be a help but then again not really. My point of view is if it benefits you then good if it doesn’t then technically it doesn’t. By then if you do get a fee and you payed it off and think you could get away, you can’t. You are still responsible for the cost of your health care. ObamaCare is The affordable care act in the US law aimed at reforming the american health care system.

The panel discussed the effects of this on a small company verse a large corporation in 2008. Part of improving affordability is also making health insurance more affordable for the employer, reducing some of the burden (The White House, 2016). Many changes in health care insurance have been made to increase the amount of individuals with health insurance coverage. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was enacted in 2010 in efforts to help solve some of the biggest issues that Americans faced with health care and its availability (The White House, 2016). As of today, more than 9 out of 10 Americans have health insurance (The White House, 2016).

Those newly defined illnesses changed people’s perceptions and expectations of health and old age, thus dramatically altering society’s expectations of medicine and subsequent life quality. Conrad’s ethnography is a good example of the ethnomedical approach to medical anthropology that addressed several health conditions that are prominent in the United States. He culminated his book by arguing medicalization primarily serves as a form of social control, solving problems with individuals and not society. While the book clearly explained a wide range of negative causes and effects of medicalization, Conrad only acknowledged a few examples of successful resistance briefly in his last chapter. In order to empower its readers beyond education, the book should have examined these instances of anti-medicalization to find similarities and derive productive countermeasures for individuals to follow.

It affects everyone involved with medicine, which is much of the American public. It also affects the physicians and drug makers. Government factors into the equation of the argument. Critics of the drug industry say that there is not enough regulation, while supporters of the pharmaceutical companies argue that there is too much regulation and that that is one... ... middle of paper ... ... near future. They key to this is that people forget about how much money they make and to simply just work for the betterment of mankind.

Introduction Obamacare, otherwise known as the ACA (Aaffordable Ccare Aact), will significantly change major aspects of theour health care system here in America. Without a doubt, our current system has its issues, especially the costs related to health insurance and medical care were rising far too quickly (Pattron, 2013). Some may believe chainsaws have been called in to fix issues that could possibly be fixed with a mere scalpel. In spite of everything, typically, our health care system contained many more strengths than weaknesses. Considering the number of patients that have come from various countries to seek medical care in the U.S., the entire world sincerely agrees.

The Affordable Care act provides low cost healthcare to the previously uninsured and guarantees continued healthcare in the case of job loss. Many people are still opposed to this act. This new system of universal healthcare will lead to improvements within the lives of American Citizens. There are many myths about universal healthcare that stop people from accepting the plan. Once the United States fully adopts the idea of universal healthcare, it can eliminate the flaws within its system, which will yield a happier and healthier population.

Obamacare provides you with all the information you need to become more educated about healthcare (“Features of Healthcare”). Another feature about Obamacare is to increase access to healthcare. If you are already insured you can get a bundle of new consumer benefits. If you are not insured you can enroll in Medicaid if you are low income. If you have a high income you can get health insurance through an exchange for a better price than with a private insurance company (Tate 17-18).

In America the affordability and equality of access to healthcare is a crucial topic of debate when it comes to one's understanding of healthcare reform. The ability for a sick individual to attain proper treatment for their ailments has reached the upper echelons of government. Public outcry for a change in the handling of health insurance laws has aided in the establishment of the Affordable Healthcare Law (AHCL) to ensure the people of America will be able to get the medical attention they deserve as well as making that attention more affordable, as the name states. Since its creation, the AHCL has undergone scrutiny towards its effects on the government and its people; nevertheless, the new law must not be dismantled due to its function as a cornerstone of equal-opportunity healthcare, and if such a removal is allowed, there will be possibly detrimental effects on taxes, the economy, and poor people. Taxes in relation to the new healthcare reform is a prominent topic when one examines the supporting and opposing sides of the law.