Pros And Cons Of Health Care Reform

Healthcare Reform Debate Assignments: Should we appeal Affordable Care Act

Pro HealthCare Reform: A good Health is the most significant necessity for every single individual which can be covered by a health insurance, which is an important needs for Americans. This is an important issue which constantly creates serious discussion between the common people and politicians. According to Sara Rosenbaum, JD (2011), “the ACA establishes the basic legal protections that until now have been absent: a near-universal guarantee of access to affordable health insurance coverage, from birth through retirement. When fully implemented, the ACA will cut the number of uninsured Americans by more than half “. Furthermore, ACA will be able to coverage

But the ACA has given Americans the opportunity to experience a better health coverage which was not offered many years ago. The ACA has been beneficial in many ways for individuals with low income. The benefits are mainly impacting positively within the lower income families and it gives the opportunity to those who were not capable of purchasing of healthcare insurance. Meanwhile, it reduces the cost for a better healthcare service. According to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) “the middle class earning up to 400 percent of the poverty level receives tax credits on their premiums. It expands Medicaid to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, providing this coverage to adults without children for the first time”. In fact, the ACA guaranteed the availability of the healthcare services within low costs, in which many low-income individuals are benefitted. Dr. Christopher Lillis, an internist in Virginia, and a member of Doctors for America addressed that, “The ACA is going to help all Americans have a higher quality of health care, with a less costly health care in the decades to

UnitedHealth can be an example of an insurance business that has seen increased profit levels as part of the healthcare business, said Gary Claxton a “director of the health care marketplace project at the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to health care policy”, (Jeff Sommer, 2017). According to Gary Claxton’s statement, “They are making a lot of money from government programs like Medicaid and Medicare — and they are likely to keep doing so,” he said, regardless of what happens in Washington". Therefore, the ACA has had a tremendous impact on the insurance business, which has increased the revenue for the insurance companies, thus indicating a good turn for the American