Since the day President Obama was inaugurated into presidency, he has attempted many times to reform the United States healthcare system. His first endeavor was known as the Affordable Health Care for America Act, and when that was not passed he tried the Patient Protection Act. Finally, on March 23, 2010, President Obama signed an act into law ("ObamaCare" 1) that would change the future for doctors and Americans forever. It is called the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or ObamaCare. On that same day it was passed, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli challenged its constitutionality and filed a lawsuit against it with the support of thirteen other states (Tennant 1). The uncertainty
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It prevents insurance from "dropping" someone when they get sick. Sometimes, when a person becomes very ill—to the point where they might die—the insurance company might stop insuring that person so they don 't lose money if the insured one does pass. The ACA also rids of gender discrimination and a person 's "pre-existing conditions" for reasons a person would be declined for insurance or have their rates raised. Another change the ACA brings is they allow young adults, until the age of 26, to stay on a parent 's insurance plan ("ObamaCare Facts..." 1).
The cost of ObamaCare will be payed thorough taxes, subsidies, mandates, and new regulations ("Understanding ObamaCare..." 1). To enact a law like this would have some kind of impact, mostly financially. Obama originally said that the ACA would cost less than a trillion ("ObamaCare Outrages" 1). The estimate is now at $1.76 trillion, and that only counts for the cost of coverage, not the execution or other charges (Tennant 1).
Another problem that upsets millions are the fines that people are charged for not having health insurance. The fee is two percent of yearly household income ("ObamaCare Outrages" 1). The fine is not only for individual people, it is also for businesses. The ACA says any employer that has fifty or more full-time workers and they don 't offer insurance, they have to pay two-thousand dollars every year for each worker ("Understanding ObamaCare"
It prevents insurance from "dropping" someone when they get sick. Sometimes, when a person becomes very ill—to the point where they might die—the insurance company might stop insuring that person so they don 't lose money if the insured one does pass. The ACA also rids of gender discrimination and a person 's "pre-existing conditions" for reasons a person would be declined for insurance or have their rates raised. Another change the ACA brings is they allow young adults, until the age of 26, to stay on a parent 's insurance plan ("ObamaCare Facts..." 1).
The cost of ObamaCare will be payed thorough taxes, subsidies, mandates, and new regulations ("Understanding ObamaCare..." 1). To enact a law like this would have some kind of impact, mostly financially. Obama originally said that the ACA would cost less than a trillion ("ObamaCare Outrages" 1). The estimate is now at $1.76 trillion, and that only counts for the cost of coverage, not the execution or other charges (Tennant 1).
Another problem that upsets millions are the fines that people are charged for not having health insurance. The fee is two percent of yearly household income ("ObamaCare Outrages" 1). The fine is not only for individual people, it is also for businesses. The ACA says any employer that has fifty or more full-time workers and they don 't offer insurance, they have to pay two-thousand dollars every year for each worker ("Understanding ObamaCare"