The Affordable Care Act also known as ObamaCare has been a big issue in healthcare for the past couple of years. It is important to understand the individual mandate that is involved in ObamaCare Act because it will help you understand the problem the individuals are facing while getting health insurance. What I am searching for in ObamaCare to better understand is the individual mandate by looking at the Political history involvement of the act, the actions taken by congress, president, and the courts, and the individual mandate that are involved in the act. The Political history goes all the way back to August 6, 1912. This happened when Theodore Roosevelt was president and campaigned on the national insurance while in office. On
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It has been nearly a century since Theodore Roosevelt first called for health care reform and ever since, nearly every president and congress, whether Democrat or Republican, has attempted to meet this challenge in some way”(Emily smith). After Senator Kennedy passed away, President Obama took over and it takes four months for the bill to be passed out of the House with a 219-212 vote. All republicans and 34 Democrats voted against the plan. On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the Affordable care Act into a law. After the law is passed immediate changes are required after 90 days. Furthermore, In June of 2010 they started to fix things like small business tax credit, access to the federal high-risk pool for the uninsured with re-existing conditions, and reinsurance for retiree health benefits. When July of 2010 came around the government was trying to figure out enrollment estimates and the cost estimates (History of Affordable Care Act). On November 6, 2012, Obama was re-elected which ensured the ACA would survive. The healthcare.gov site opened on October of 2013, but experienced technical difficulties and had to shut down. The …show more content…
In July of 2009, the speaker of the house which is Nancy Pelosi and a group of democrats reveal their plan for the health-care system. The name of their plan, which was H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act. A month after announcing their plan senator Ted Kennedy dies, he was one of the main supporters of the health-care reform. This put the health-care reform in jeopardy because the 60th seat became empty and a supermajority was needed to pass. The seat was soon filled and that put the plan back into action. In the House of Representatives the bill goes on to the Senate with a 219 Democrat vote and 1 Republican for the Affordable Health Care for America Act, with a 39 Democrat and 176 Republican vote against it. When the bill went to the Senate it lacked the 60th vote needed to pass. However, they took a different route by using the budget reconciliation only needing 51 votes to pass. It was approved by the house with 219-212 vote for the bill. On March 23, 2010, president Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into a law (History of Affordable Care Act). After the law was passed, there were a few bumps that needed to be fixed. After the pitfalls had been revived and fixed the courts started having problems come into their court pertaining to the Affordable Care Act. It was not until January of 2011 that a judge in Florida ruled
It has been nearly a century since Theodore Roosevelt first called for health care reform and ever since, nearly every president and congress, whether Democrat or Republican, has attempted to meet this challenge in some way”(Emily smith). After Senator Kennedy passed away, President Obama took over and it takes four months for the bill to be passed out of the House with a 219-212 vote. All republicans and 34 Democrats voted against the plan. On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the Affordable care Act into a law. After the law is passed immediate changes are required after 90 days. Furthermore, In June of 2010 they started to fix things like small business tax credit, access to the federal high-risk pool for the uninsured with re-existing conditions, and reinsurance for retiree health benefits. When July of 2010 came around the government was trying to figure out enrollment estimates and the cost estimates (History of Affordable Care Act). On November 6, 2012, Obama was re-elected which ensured the ACA would survive. The healthcare.gov site opened on October of 2013, but experienced technical difficulties and had to shut down. The …show more content…
In July of 2009, the speaker of the house which is Nancy Pelosi and a group of democrats reveal their plan for the health-care system. The name of their plan, which was H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act. A month after announcing their plan senator Ted Kennedy dies, he was one of the main supporters of the health-care reform. This put the health-care reform in jeopardy because the 60th seat became empty and a supermajority was needed to pass. The seat was soon filled and that put the plan back into action. In the House of Representatives the bill goes on to the Senate with a 219 Democrat vote and 1 Republican for the Affordable Health Care for America Act, with a 39 Democrat and 176 Republican vote against it. When the bill went to the Senate it lacked the 60th vote needed to pass. However, they took a different route by using the budget reconciliation only needing 51 votes to pass. It was approved by the house with 219-212 vote for the bill. On March 23, 2010, president Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into a law (History of Affordable Care Act). After the law was passed, there were a few bumps that needed to be fixed. After the pitfalls had been revived and fixed the courts started having problems come into their court pertaining to the Affordable Care Act. It was not until January of 2011 that a judge in Florida ruled