Obama Care Negatives

One Common topic that has been talked about a lot recently is whether the Affordable Care Act has a positive or negative affect on people's lives. The Affordable Care Act is a health reform legislation.This act was passed by congress and later signed by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010 to make the act a law.The goal of this act is to help Americans have affordable health insurance and lower the cost of health care spending. The Affordable Care Act also known as Obama Care was supposed to cause a positive impact, but it seems to be causing a negative impact on many people's lives. One aspect of the Affordable Care Act that can affect people is the employer mandate. The employer mandate requires companies to provide their full time workers with health insurance. Although this sounds like a good idea there has been many negative consequences. Some employees have seen their hours cut to part time to avoid the company paying the expense to insure them. With people's jobs only being part time they tend to make less money which causes them not to be able to buy items that they need then money will not circulate as much. That could cause a big problem in the economy. Another aspect of the Affordable Care Act that could negatively affect Americans is the individual mandate. The individual …show more content…
To provide many Americans with free health insurance taxes must increase to cover the cost. People that can barely afford their current insurance are now struggling to pay the extra taxes. The Affordable Care Act will raise taxes by 0.5% which is the tenth largest tax increase since the 1950s. They may say it helps people with their health but paying more for the coverage and hurt more if they have to pay to much for it. This act seems to mainly help the poor but this is because they have the best chance for not having to