The Pros And Cons Of The Affordable Care Act

As Americans, do we not have the right to provide for and protect our families? In 2010, the largest overhaul of the health care system, since Medicare, began with legislation for The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act(PPACA), also known as Affordable Care Act(ACA) or commonly identified as Obama Care. This legislation brought care to American families that had never participated in a health care program, or never acquired health insurance because of financial hardship (Thompson). Arguably, there is the conservative citizen, and religious members of our society that claim we are creating Socialized Medicine and or interfering with religious freedoms. Equally important, The Affordable Care Act provides access to Medical Insurance to those individuals with the greatest need, at an affordable rate or no fee at all, with securities that the insurance companies no longer hold all the power over the individuals and allowing insured with preexisting conditions to obtain quality health care.
Our Health Car system has undergone a much needed revision, stifling the lack of access for individuals and families access to quality health care. Health care has been …show more content…
However, having an exchange, or market place that provides individuals to obtain and pay, from a competitive market place, for their private insurance policies is not socialized medicine. Conversely, religious freedom has a multitude of protections provided within the care act itself. As stated in an article by Timpothy Stoltzfus "Separation anxiety: abortion funding & the Affordable Care Act." Religious freedom is protected, the law prohibits the use of federal money be used for abortions, similarly, protecting the doctors from retaliation for refusing to perform