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Pros And Cons Of Obamacare

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As I am sure you are aware, President Trump has recently moved forward with his plans to repeal Obamacare, also known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This act, signed into law in 2010, has provided, as the name suggests, affordable health care to Americans. Along with this new accessibility, ACA also made it less likely for someone to be turned away due to preexisting conditions as well as provide tax credits to lower income participants. According to Tami Luhby of CNN, “a total of nearly 30 million people would become uninsured if lawmakers repeal but don’t replace Obamacare” (23). On top of the possibility of losing Obamacare, in the most recent budget report, Medicaid is facing a one trillion dollar cut over the next decade. Medicaid, …show more content…

On average, medical costs in the United States are 2X more than other developed countries. A large part of this is due to the uncharacteristic lack of government involvement. I believe that if the government helps regulate the prices of services and medicine, then the impact of not having Obamacare or cutting Medicaid’s budget would have less of an adverse effect on the population. There are many ways the price of health care could be reduced, but a way the government can directly impact this issue is by negotiating prices. If this were to happen, the need of high coverage health insurance could decrease. When people aren’t having to pay upwards of $500 for their child’s inhaler or about $16,000 for an emergency appendectomy. Health care prices in this country are absolutely out of control. When business moguls get their hands-on life saving medicine or medical procedures and then exploit those who need them in order to make even more money, the masses are faced with the inability to pay for something that could save their

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The annual cost of healthcare in the United States of America in the year of 2015 was 3.2 trillion, or 9,990 per person, however, 1 billion from the total National Healthcare Expenditure was towards hospitals, Medicaid, and approximately 2 billion on Medicare. (www.cms.gov.) There are healthcare policies in place and being formulated to adhere to the issue of the continuous growth of the National HealthCare, but, there are some that add onto the issue. For example, The Affordable Care Act(ACA), signed by president Barack Obama on march 3, 2010 has been perceived in two different lights, one being that the ACA is the reason why the National Healthcare expenditure has increased. One of the primary goals of the ACA is to “Make affordable health insurance available to more people” (Healthcare.gov).

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In the book, Why HealthCare Matters, it’s confirmed that nearly 47 million Americans do not have healthcare. As healthcare prices and insurance increases, it does not match the rate at which inflation increases. In the 1970’s there was a time when people just paid the Doctor directly for services and they even made house calls. Over the past 40 years this has changed dramatically. I believe the government’s doing too little in helping Americans get the healthcare coverage they need.

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As a recipient of food stamps, and a beneficiary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA, aka Obamacare), I have a personal stake in these issues. Ohio is one of the 28 states that “opted-in” to Medicaid expansion, and in doing so, provided a safety net for individuals like myself… single male, no income, no dependent children, and no healthcare insurance. Currie discusses the problems of the uninsured, i.e., no primary care provider (PCP), which means no preventive care services, and having to seek medical treatment exclusively through the doors of emergency rooms (ER). This could be problematic, especially for children, who need preventive care services, as their body’s experience growth and change during the maturing process. There is another argument for public healthcare coverage… a possibly reduction in overall healthcare cost.

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An article from USA Today, “What would the Graham-Cassidy health bill mean for you?” written by Eliza Collins, talks of the changes Republicans are making in an effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare. Senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana have been working on the healthcare bill for months, revising and eliminating major sections of the nation’s health reform law enacted in March of 2010. Obamacare has helped over 20 million Americans by providing affordable and accessible health insurance which increases the amount of people that have coverage. Some of the consequences that come from the ACA is money being allocated to public health and prevention programs which will lower the cost of spending on health care. According to the American Public Health Association, “by funding community-based public health and prevention programs, and by supporting research and tracking on key health measures, the ACA can help begin to reduce disparities, improve access to preventive care, improve health outcomes

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The United States no longer posses the ability to effectively drive down premium costs through the means of insuring healthy people. For example there is a town with ten houses, and, on average, one house a year burns down. If no one in the town pays for insurance they have a 10% chance of their house burning down each year. If everyone in the town pays insurance they spread the risk because no matter whose house burns down no one will have to pay anything as the insurance company will cover the cost of the house that burns down each year and make a slight profit. This is the same logic applied to the whole medical insurance market.

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