The Affordable Care Act was enacted with the intention to meet the goal of Obama and “provide affordable, quality healthcare for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending.” The Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, is what our nation needs to sustain our people and ensure our people’s rights.
March 23, 2010 was the day President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, and ever since, all Republicans in congressional office have made it clear that it is their intention to revoke the law. However, despite over 50 attempts of trying to repeal different parts of the Affordable Care Act, Republicans have accomplished nothing.
Prior to the ACA, nearly 50 million United States citizens lacked health
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Revoking this law could be cataclysmic and destructive for the United States. To achieve this goal of terminating the ACA there would need to be a merger between the House and Senate as well as the president, Barack Obama. Republicans would also have to figure out a way to repel lobbyists from trying to re-establish the ACA. To replace the pre-existing act to promote healthcare, Congress would need to set aside any and all differences and views as well as propose new ideas to create an advantageous law. If a replacement bill were to be made and revealed, however, ACA advocates and lobbyists, without a doubt, would oppose the bill indefinitely, causing major unwanted disruption and attention to the United States …show more content…
The Republican budget, projected for the next ten years, substantially depends on the money generated from the ACA to balance their budget and save money. Without the trillion dollars in revenue drawn from the ACA the “Republican budget falls about $400 billion short of balance in the tenth year.” Meaning, if the Republicans do ever succeed in terminating the ACA within the next ten years then they would also disassemble their budget. Republicans, however, have come up with a counterproposal, a replacement for the ACA, called the Patient CARE Act (PCA). Although not fully meticulous yet, the PCA does provide United States citizens with many of the crucial provisions included in the ACA, however not without limitations. The PCA does not take into account for the millions of people who would get kicked off their health plans and people with pre-existing conditions, as well as make millions pay more for their employer coverage, dismantle many of Obamacare’s core consumer protections, and provide fewer subsidies to help Americans buy health