The debate on how to effectively address the nation as a whole in terms of health care coverage has really heated up in recent years. With former President Obama working on legislation over his two terms starting in 2009 and producing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) otherwise known as “Obamacare”, the conversation seems to always to be stagnated along party lines between big government oversight vs little government oversight on the issue. With the implementation of the ACA, it seems that as of right now, the country is slowly moving towards an end where the government sees to it that in one way or another everyone is covered. Even with the recent Republican efforts, the ACA seems to be the United State’s early creation of a healthcare system which aims for all to be covered, one that is shared by many countries on the global scale. Even though the U.S. seems to become one of many countries where every man, woman, and child is covered, the way they will do it may not be like most and depend on the ACA. For many decades in the United States, and surely more to come, the employment-based health insurance system has been the main form of health care coverage for Americans, and has been a staple in our country since its conception after the second …show more content…
In Intervention and Reflection: Basic Issues in Medical Ethics, a particular piece of writing was included by William S. Custer, Charles N. Kahn III, and Thomas F. Wildsmith IV. These three wrote a piece on why they believe the employment-based health insurance system should stay, a viewpoint I agree with. They spoke briefly of what was discussed earlier in this essay about how tax exemption has made this system very favorable. They also discussed some other material which could be wrapped up into two main