As President Donald Trump said, “…who knew healthcare was so complicated?” I don’t know President Trump…maybe all the insurers, hospitals, providers and anyone who has had to navigate the healthcare system ever! The eight presidents prior to you, who have attempted to tackle, wrangle, clarify, fix, or enact anything that could reform the healthcare system over the course of the past half-century or more have failed to do so. In 2010 the Affordable Care Act was passed, notoriously known as ObamaCare. Under the ACA, individuals were required to buy insurance, or else they were penalized. Employers were required to offer insurance to their full-time employees at affordable rates and particular benefit thresholds. Guess who was penalized and …show more content…
But don’t you worry; Congress has ensured they will still be covered by our tax dollars. They will be available to continue to impose implications on our lives while not really understanding what they have done because none of it applies to them. Therefore, the lack of truly not understanding continues, so guess whom else is impacted, who is so richly protected today in the ACA and Republican bills, dependents under the age of 26. What happens President Trump and Congress, when employers’ start dropping employee insurance? There go the dependents under 26. Not only do mom and dad have to go buy insurance for themselves but also, Sally and Jimmy who are still in elementary school. In addition to that, their older boy, Bobby who is 23 will also need insurance. Bobby is in his 5th year of college, studying to be a Fermentation Scientist (beer brewer). Bobby spends most of his days and evenings “tasting” beers and has end up in the E.R. for various different reasons. Mom and dad are probably best to go ahead and buy him some insurance too, likely cheaper than his E.R. costs annually. But I’m willing to bet, insurance for that family of 5, in the open market exchanges, is not going to be equivalent or cheaper than employer sponsored