Obamacare Pros And Cons

“Obamacare is not about improved health care or cheaper insurance or better treatment or insuring the uninsured, and it never has been about that. It's about statism. It's about expanding the government. It's about control over the population. It is about everything but health care (“Rush Limbaugh Quote”).” With this statement, Rush Limbaugh sums up the Affordable Care Act, which was signed into law on March 23rd, 2010. The Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, is a major overhaul of the national healthcare system, because it’s supposed to give health insurance to 32 million uninsured Americans by 2019 (Thomma, Steven). However, it needs to be repealed because it is simply an aggressive declaration of government power, and its financial burden

Others may disagree by saying that it’s solely laying a new, stable foundation for the country. Yet, this new “foundation” is completely against the principles of which America was founded on. First, it demands all citizens have health insurance. People were initially told that they could keep their current health care plans, but this turned out to be a lie (Republican Views on Health Care). Likewise, they can only keep their present doctors if they agree to pay more for them. Also, the Affordable Care Act allows the government to be in control of a component that makes up one-sixth of the entire economy. This extreme liberalism mirrors a euro-style bureaucracy, in which all aspects of peoples’ lives are controlled by the government (“Renewing American Values”). Additionally, no Republicans voted for the final version of Obamacare that was made into law (Republican Views on Health Care). Given that America’s politics are run by the Republicans and the Democrats, it is obviously peculiar and unrepresentative that the Affordable Care Act was made effective by the votes of just one side. According to the dissenting justices of the United States Supreme Court, “...the entire Act before us is invalid in its entirety” (“Renewing American

However, the Affordable Care Act is a gigantic measure that entails an unsustainable amount of money from America, and it therefore will only cause further damage to the economy. Obamacare’s estimated cost over the next ten years is $1.4 trillion (“Net Cost of ObamaCare”). As if the United States has not acquired enough debt already, this law is only adding to the countrys’ expenses. The Republicans’ biggest concern with the Act is the immense amount of money it will cost American taxpayers, and the risk it will create for small businesses (Republican Views on Health Care). Additionally, they are generally most disturbed by Obamacare’s expansion of Medicaid for citizens, which will put a lot of financial strain on the states individually (“Renewing American