Affordable Care Act
On March 23, 2010 President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), a complex and controversial piece of legislation that has many in favor of its regulations and those who oppose its regulations. Some politicians want to repeal the ACA. Though the goal of the ACA is to increase health insurance coverage, illegal immigrants are still excluded under the law (Washington Post – Landmark, 2010). However, this reflects a lack of access and right to health care.
The ACA requires most people living in the United States to purchase or acquire health insurance. The ACA is necessary to improve health care in a variety of ways, particularly with costs. Basically, the ACA is essential for all Americans because, at some point in everyone’s life, there will be inevitable yet unpredictable health care costs to cover. Those costs are extremely hard to cover without insurance and care provided for no charge will be at the expense of another consumer forced to pay an inflated price. I believe that there is no real difference between the expansion of Medicaid under the ACA and changes made to Medicaid in the past. If states comply, the Medicaid expansion will significantly increase the number of insured Americans. Although I believe that
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They are more likely to be weak and alone; they are more likely to need more medical attention; and they are less likely to have the ability to afford the insurance than those who are wealthy (Rowland & Lyons, 1996). Health insurance is very important for low-income people because they can be in worse living conditions and have other risky health factors along with fewer financial assets. They are faced with higher medical bills than people with higher incomes. Because of these reasons, fair and equal opportunity is much needed when it comes to health and health