The ACA is a comprehensive health care reform law, providing consumers with subsidies (“premium tax credits”) that lower costs for households with incomes between 100% and 400% of the federal poverty level. A law enacted to ensure that all Americans have access to affordable health insurance. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), also known as Obamacare, was enacted in March of 2010 by President of the time Barack Obama in hopes of creating a more realistic and affordable health care system for Americans across the country. The healthcare reform law was created to fulfill three main goals: Make affordable health insurance coverage available to more Americans, the expansion of the Medicaid program, and to support medical care delivery methods. Despite the PPACA providing affordable …show more content…
For example, due to an “individual mandate,” every single American is required to have some form of health insurance, and because of this, tax prices have increased, and insurance companies have taken advantage of policies. In my opinion, President Obama should’ve better monitored and prevented insurance companies from charging Americans such outrageous prices and rates on health insurance. Policymakers and I can both agree that the PPACA, or Obamacare, definitely needs some changes, and some critics have even called it “the Unaffordable Care Act” due to outrageous insurance rates. The political parties’ viewpoint on “Obamacare” is quite substantial. The Republican Party claim that Obamacare was a complete failure, that it backfired on the Constitution of the United States because it requires U.S. citizens to purchase health insurance, and its impact on the health of the nation overall has been disastrous. Republicans were not as much in favor of the healthcare bill as much as the Democrats. The Democratic Party on the other hand believes that the Obamacare bill being passed was a major success