The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is one of the Barack Obama's domestic policy that has been debated about by the public on its viability since the president signed it. The Act also is known as the Affordable Care Act, or the Obamacare and was passed by the 111th Congress of the United States. The Act was signed to become one of the U.S. federal statutes on March 2010, and it was meant to change and help in the development of the healthcare system in the country (eHealth, 2016). The mission of the law was to ensure that hospitals and the primary physicians have transformed their practices in regards to finances, technology and clinical matters for better healthcare services that are motivated by lower cost and better distribution
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Statutes. First, the act was rejected by most Republicans in both houses, the Representatives, and Senate. Approximately 212 members of the House dismissed the Act. Further, it has faced challenges in the federal courts, labor unions, and even conservative advocacy groups. Still, the Affordable Care Act is facing its viability in the federal laws as the current President Donald Trump tries to erase it and replace it with a better health care law. In the United States Supreme Court, the constitutionality of the Obamacare was challenged in 2012 in the case of National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius. The court held that the part of "individual mandate," was constitutional, as it needed the population to purchase the health insurance or pay the penalty (Liptak, 2012). Further, in 2015, in the case of King v. Burwell, the court in a decision of 6-3 upheld one tenet of the Affordable Care Act on the entitlement of keeping the tax subsidies that ensured the Americans afford insurance as constitutional. However, in 2016 the Supreme Court ruled against the law on cost sharing as unconstitutional. The provision required the insurers providing the health plans by the statute to reduce out-of-pocket costs for the qualified policyholders. In a nutshell, the ACA is among the major issues that the current administration wants to find a solution or remove it from the American policymaking system. The Republicans have been against the legislation, and when the new government finds a solution, it might be
Statutes. First, the act was rejected by most Republicans in both houses, the Representatives, and Senate. Approximately 212 members of the House dismissed the Act. Further, it has faced challenges in the federal courts, labor unions, and even conservative advocacy groups. Still, the Affordable Care Act is facing its viability in the federal laws as the current President Donald Trump tries to erase it and replace it with a better health care law. In the United States Supreme Court, the constitutionality of the Obamacare was challenged in 2012 in the case of National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius. The court held that the part of "individual mandate," was constitutional, as it needed the population to purchase the health insurance or pay the penalty (Liptak, 2012). Further, in 2015, in the case of King v. Burwell, the court in a decision of 6-3 upheld one tenet of the Affordable Care Act on the entitlement of keeping the tax subsidies that ensured the Americans afford insurance as constitutional. However, in 2016 the Supreme Court ruled against the law on cost sharing as unconstitutional. The provision required the insurers providing the health plans by the statute to reduce out-of-pocket costs for the qualified policyholders. In a nutshell, the ACA is among the major issues that the current administration wants to find a solution or remove it from the American policymaking system. The Republicans have been against the legislation, and when the new government finds a solution, it might be