Many people believe healthcare reform is a bad idea and that the government should stay away from healthcare. However, there are many other people who believe that it is a great thing that the government got involved, and created programs to register for mandatory health-care. In, “Healthcare Reform 101”, author Rick Panning discusses some of the main goals of the Affordable Healthcare Act, which are universality, financing, cost reduction, payment reform, quality and process improvement, prevention and wellness.
One of the author’s reasoning for how taking away ACA would affect Medicaid is back in 2016 legislation tried to step away from it, but former President Barack Obama repealed it because could eventually affect the lives of millions of people. The authors also cover how ACA changed Medicaid for the better, for example creating a program for just children’s coverage, inventing a new method to determine eligibility, and even creating new benefit options for families and small businesses. The author describes how the new Presidential administration can repeal or alter Medicaid through Section 1115. The authors main argument is that by repealing ACA would eliminate the Medicaid system which in turn will allow millions of people to be
“Healthcare Reform 101,” written by Rick Panning (2014), is a wonderful article that describes, in an easy-to-understand language, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed into law March 23, 2010. The main goal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was to provide affordable, quality healthcare to Americans while simultaneously reducing some of the country’s economic problems. Two areas will be covered throughout this paper. The first section will include a summary of the major points and highlights of Panning’s (2014) article, including an introduction to the ACA, goals of the signed legislation, provided coverage, and downfalls of the current healthcare system. The second part will be comprised of a professional
The Affordable Care Act, (ACA) often referred to as Obamacare, was signed into law March 23rd, 2010 and has quickly become a nightmare to millions of citizens nationwide. While there were fortunate people who benefited from the heavily subsidized and affordable healthcare that was not readily available before ACA was passed, many more people found that their once affordable healthcare was no longer an option due to new ACA requirements (how so?). ACA was designed to extend insurance benefits to roughly 30 million uninsured Americans. The Obama administration aimed to extend Medicaid and provide federal subsidies so lower and middle-class Americans could afford to buy private insurance. This act alone forced millions of Americans out of their
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 's (PPACA) “individual mandate” is constitutional under Congress ' taxation power. After many months of debate and countless modifications, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was passed by a democratically controlled House and Senate. On March 23, 2010, the President signed the comprehensive reform into law and dozens of lawsuits were filed across the Country contesting the bill’s constitutionality. As of this writing, five lawsuits have been decided by the district courts – three have found the bill to be constitutional; in one lawsuit the judge ruled most of the bill constitutional but found the “individual insurance” mandate in violation of the Commerce Clause; in the last and largest of the suits to be decided the judge found the entire bill to be unconstitutional.
The ACA, passed in President Obama’s first term, mandates that all Americans will need to purchase healthcare or pay a tax. In addition, the plan also provides subsidies for middle class families and contributes to the overhaul of the healthcare system (Amadeo, 2017). The ACA represents major intervention by the federal government in the health care system. Again, the fundamental differences between the parties were present in the voting over this legislation. When the bill was in the Senate, it passed with support of all 60 Senate Democrats and two Independents.
A Second Look at the Affordable Care Act David E. Mann, ABA American Military University POLS210 Abstract Since the passing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), twenty-eight states have either filed joint or individual lawsuits to strike down the PPACA. This document will examine a few key elements that the President of the United States must take into consideration when reviewing the act and moving forward to either ratify the act, replace the act, or leave the act as it is. Topics that will be presented will include; the current issues being debated, two competing thoughts on how to fix the ACA, an evaluation of the preferred solution, and finally the responsibility of each level of government. Patient
In the United States, there has been historical reform to the United States’ health care recently, the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010, and made some reforms that can be considered “a big deal”. Many progressive or liberals like Nick Wing and Jeffery Young , writers of the Huffington Post, ask valid concerns on the healthcare law when it was passed like “What happens if not enough people enrolled
Since President Barack Obama landmark health care policy was signed into law, there continue to be numerous controversies surrounding this new health care policy. There are some who favors the law because of the numerous benefits the policy provides to ordinary Americans. Those who oppose this new health care policy argue that the law is unconstitutional because it compelled people to get health insurance. This is just one of the many issues that have overshadowed this new health policy. Already, the Supreme Court has made some remarkable ruling on this policy and still, there are other rulings that are pending before the Supreme Court.
The Uninsured With the 2016 election passing just a mere month ago, we have all had our fair share of politics. And without a doubt, if you watched any of the debates, you heard about the Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as Obamacare. While Trump, along with Republicans. wants to repeal this law, Hillary, along with Democrats, wanted to build off of it(What Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton Have Promised To Do To Obamacare).
The purpose of this paper is to holistically analyze ObamaCare, also known as the Patient Protection and Affordable HealthCare Act, taking into account both the benefits and shortcomings of this health care plan introduced by the Obama Administration. The Affordable HealthCare Act is not necessarily a newly introduced law, but a law that reforms existing healthcare programs in the United States. The law does introduce new benefits, however, it is largely comprised of new provisions including the mandate for all Americans to have health insurance, the expansion of existing social healthcare programs, and the mandate for large employers to provide coverage to all eligible employees. The goal of the Patient Protection and Affordable HealthCare
Governor John Bel Edwards of Louisiana enacted an executive order on January 14 to expand Medicaid through Obamacare in the state. The order will be effective July 1, 2016. Obamacare, also known as Affordable Care Act (ACA), is a healthcare reform law that aims to care for the health of U.S. citizens. More specifically, this law helps lower-income family access an affordable health care through taxes. Barack Obama made it his primary objective to pass this healthcare reform law, and signed it on March 23, 2010.
Constantly reiterated in the CNN-Telemundo debate right before Super Tuesday and in a “60 Minutes” interview last fall, Trumps has asserted that “ Everybody’s got to be covered” while acknowledging that it is a very “un-Republican thing to say.” He discussed how the government would fund the program and use its bargaining power to negotiate prices between hospitals and drug companies: a core tenet of socialized healthcare. To examine the impact of Trump’s plan, we first have to analyze Obama’s legacy-defining bill, which Trump has vowed to repeal. The bill has resulted in more Americans having access to health insurance than ever before. It has also provided more private coverage options with essential minimum coverage and retained a free market for the industry to
Health care should not be considered a political argument in America; it is a matter of basic human rights. Something that many people seem to forget is that the US is the only industrialized western nation that lacks a universal health care system. The National Health Care Disparities Report, as well as author and health care worker Nicholas Conley and Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), strongly suggest that the US needs a universal health care system. The most secure solution for many problems in America, such as wasted spending on a flawed non-universal health care system and 46.8 million Americans being uninsured, is to organize a national health care program in the US that covers all citizens for medical necessities.
Obama Care also known as the Affordable Care Act signed in by president Barack Obama in 2010, This was to insure that all the Americans will have free access to medical care if they got sick and it would will help reduce the growth of healthcost spending in the country, hence in economic and stability growth among the citizens of America. Right now in the USA the ObamaCare law is a permanent part of the landscape, The USA republicans said that, despite the high court decision upholding various subsidies, the law itself remains the largest and dangerous threat to health care. Although it has its own benefits, Obamacare is increasing costs for hardworking families. Republicans argue that many people have to pay higher costs or see their former policies canceled. Which is leading to poor economy and increasing of debts and deaths within the country.
