Throughout the years the availability of health care has been a major problem for the United States. In fact, the federal government has been the dominant force in American health care for decades, long before the recent massive expansion of the government’s role in the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) (as quoted by Capretta & Dayaratna, 2013). Prior to the governmental enforcement of PPACA, an estimated 44 million of U.S. citizens didn’t have health insurance and no way of obtaining it. This law, under government regulation, enforced insurers to accept all applicants and charge the same rates regardless of pre-existing conditions or gender. The Act also increased the number of physicians that consumers can choose
