When it comes to healthcare in the United States, many people are feeling the “pinch” of having to make the decision between their medicine and their food. For instance, because the elderly are living much longer, they especially feel it the most, being on a fixed income. While retired persons only receive a total of 70% of their income from social security, the difference has to be made up from investments that the person has made or from residual income that the individual can obtain. And it is not only the elderly who are feeling the “pinch”, but also the everyday student and impoverished family. This seems especially unfair, due to the fact that both state and federal legislators will receive lifetime healthcare benefits paid for by the
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On March 23, 2010 United States President Barack Obama signed the law currently known as “Obamacare” or to be even more definite, “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”. Now for a little over 6 years, the ACA has perpetually been in control of the healthcare system for United States individuals. According to Senator Ted Cruz, “What Obamacare does is decreases choices and drives up cost.” This system of healthcare has many pros and cons. On one hand, the ACA provides affordable insurance protection to all Americans, but on the flipside, the ACA primarily only covers individuals who have an income of $12,000 or more per year. If an individual makes less than $12,000/year, the federal government places the individual in a poverty bracket, which the state that the individual resides in, assesses the individuals income and needs and makes a decision whether or not to provide healthcare benefits for the individual (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-healthcare-cbo-idUSTRE71H77N20110218). These policies not only affect the people of The United States, but this simultaneously affects, both, hospital and primary physician proceedings nationwide. Obamacare is expected to show a concluded estimate of around 20.3 million visits to seek primary care but the total amount of physicians will diminish somewhere between 12,500 and 31,100 by the year …show more content…
Elected officials on both the federal and state level receive lifetime healthcare benefits provided by the American people/the federal government. Simply put, these politicians will pay virtually nothing for themselves and their family’s healthcare. According to Webster’s dictionary, an elected official is a public servant. This begs the question if an elected official works for the people, how is it that these elected officials are given more privileges than the everyday working citizens? This is a serious injustice in American politics. Former President Bush’s chief of personnel Kay Coles James stated “Members of Congress have good health insurance by any standard, much better than the average Americans, but it’s not free and not reserved only for them. House and Senate members are allowed to purchase private health insurance offered through the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program… the FEHB program is not centralized, government-run health care. It has drawn praise both from conservatives and liberals, including President Obama, who held it up as a model for his own health care proposals”
On March 23, 2010 United States President Barack Obama signed the law currently known as “Obamacare” or to be even more definite, “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”. Now for a little over 6 years, the ACA has perpetually been in control of the healthcare system for United States individuals. According to Senator Ted Cruz, “What Obamacare does is decreases choices and drives up cost.” This system of healthcare has many pros and cons. On one hand, the ACA provides affordable insurance protection to all Americans, but on the flipside, the ACA primarily only covers individuals who have an income of $12,000 or more per year. If an individual makes less than $12,000/year, the federal government places the individual in a poverty bracket, which the state that the individual resides in, assesses the individuals income and needs and makes a decision whether or not to provide healthcare benefits for the individual (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-healthcare-cbo-idUSTRE71H77N20110218). These policies not only affect the people of The United States, but this simultaneously affects, both, hospital and primary physician proceedings nationwide. Obamacare is expected to show a concluded estimate of around 20.3 million visits to seek primary care but the total amount of physicians will diminish somewhere between 12,500 and 31,100 by the year …show more content…
Elected officials on both the federal and state level receive lifetime healthcare benefits provided by the American people/the federal government. Simply put, these politicians will pay virtually nothing for themselves and their family’s healthcare. According to Webster’s dictionary, an elected official is a public servant. This begs the question if an elected official works for the people, how is it that these elected officials are given more privileges than the everyday working citizens? This is a serious injustice in American politics. Former President Bush’s chief of personnel Kay Coles James stated “Members of Congress have good health insurance by any standard, much better than the average Americans, but it’s not free and not reserved only for them. House and Senate members are allowed to purchase private health insurance offered through the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program… the FEHB program is not centralized, government-run health care. It has drawn praise both from conservatives and liberals, including President Obama, who held it up as a model for his own health care proposals”