Stakeholder Analysis
According to Roy, 2013 the issues of providing the affordable care act will unite both the supporters and offenders of the public policy, but in this current situation where the input costs are rising, it will become impossible for government in managing the public policy related to affordable health care. In order to provide affordable health care, majority of the US government has tried out different policies time to time, but unable to get success in realizing the actual policy goals. By providing the affordable health care to majority of the people who requires more amount as controlling the input cost is not possible (AAMC, 2013). Lack of doctors is one of the primary issue in providing high quality health care to the citizens especially those who are financially poor. The Supreme Court of the country passed an Act related to Health insurance as all should have Health Insurance to all the country people by the year 2014, but the at the same time government is concerned about constitutionality of these act (NYTimes, 2013).
Following are the various arguments related to affordable health care:
The law is totally constitutional because it is not being enforced on the individuals particularly.
According to Obama administration the law is considered as jurisdictional and it will not follow the specific terms.
Amount 26 states and the individuals have argued stating that law is not jurisdictional because it is not a barrier to both the individuals (NYTimes, 2013).
In order to provide affordable health care, government should have huge amount of money to be invested in the hospitals, for arranging doctors and for financing.
Majority of people does not have any kind of health insurance (NYTimes, 2013)....
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