During the Obama administration, the President Barack Obama held up several initiatives. His one of the major legislative initiatives was called the Affordable Care Act, which is commonly known as Obama Care. According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (U.S. HHS), the Affordable Care Act put in place comprehensive health insurance reforms that have improved access, affordability, and quality in health care for Americans. In another hand, this law is intended to reduce the growing health care spending and try to get more Americans to have health insurance. It was signed on March 23. 2010 and upheld by the Supreme Court on June 28, 2012 (U.S. HHS). Therefore, in 2016, the U.S. government spending on health care should be decreased, and …show more content…
It is extremely high compared to other high-income countries such as the United Kingdom, France, and Japan. In addition to the high spending, the United States do not have the universal health care coverage like most other high-income countries do. Some people say that the Obama Care is going to be something similar to the universal health care, but it is unlikely happening so far. By looking at all these information, it seems that the Affordable Care Act is not working as it should be. It is true that some part is not working as efficient as the law intended to be; however, it has some positive effects on the American citizens. According to ACA Signups (the website supported by Obama Care), more than 12.7 million people are enrolled in the marketplace in 2016. Furthermore, people who are uninsured dropped significantly (about twenty-five percent). In 2009, more than 44 million Americans were uninsured as Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) says. Even though either the law improving health or not is unclear, at least, it seems that it improved young adults’ health according to the New York