Healthcare is important to the citizens of the United States. It is not, however, a right. Healthcare is a privilege that people work for among many other things. It must be earned like and when the government steps in to subsidize services, there is very little good that comes out of it. Obamacare wants to make healthcare affordable to everyone, even those with very little money but what the government doesn’t highlight is where that money is coming from. Obama wants to shift our country towards socialism which has never fully worked in the history of the world. The disaster that is the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare must be repealed.
One reason to repeal Obamacare is that many people are losing or will lose health care under the Affordable Care Act. There have been a “reported 7 million health insurance cancellations in 32 states in 2013” (5 Reasons 1). Obamacare imposes restrictions and regulations on insurance companies that have made it harder for people to purchase insurance from their workplace. “During the first half of 2014, Heritage Foundation analysis of the market enrollment data found that net enrollment in employer-group coverage declined by almost 4 million individuals” (5 Reasons 1) This is terrible in that
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“Many Americans have not been able to keep their doctors as insurers try to offset the added cost of Obamacare by limiting the number of providers in their network” (5 Reasons 1). This could cause many problems for people who are away from home and in need of medical assistance. There is a significant chance that the nearest doctor many not be in their network as around 50% of insurance networks will be limited under Obamacare. Further than that, “40% are classified as ‘ultra-narrow’” (5 Reasons 1). Everyone may be able to hold health insurance under Obamacare but what is the use if they are so limited to where they can receive