Obamacare Essay

Change pull up stakes not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We be the ones weve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. Those words were famously spoken from Barack Obama during his election period. Following through with those words, he begins to make change in the country. Change isnt easy, yet you hope its worth it in the end.The USA seems to be standing on both sides of the fence when it comes to the changes the President is making with healthcare. March 23, 2010 Obama write into law Affordable Care Act, or better known as Obamacare. Together with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, it represents the most significant judicature expansion and regulatory overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965 (www.obamacarefacts.com).Obamacare was enacted to provide affordable health insurance to 44 million uninsured Americans and to bowdlerize the growth in health care spending. Obamacare has do ne some important things already, such as prohibiting insurance companies from dropping your coverage if you get sick and has been workings with insurance companies who will not cover a person because of a pre-existing condition. thus far, as with all change there are two ship canal at looking at the new bill. Obamacare will drastically affect the low-income families in a positive way. In America healthcare is so tight to afford for the average low-income family, Obama has placed the care on a sliding scale. The expansion will cover over 15 million low-income indivi duals and families below the 133% FLP mark.However each state has the option to opt-out of providing coverage for the poor. By not providing coverage for the poor, it will leave 2-3 million people without coverage. States that decide to opt-in employers will have to do by laying people off and making full time employees part time to avoid Obamacare penalties and taxes by not implementing the program. Others will not expatiate beyond 50 employees to avoid the bills mandates (Shenk, 2013). The average consumer will see a difference because some businesses are adding surcharges to invoices in to help make up the cost of healthcare coverage for their employees.On a positive note, there would be no annual or life sentence limits, children can stay on their parents plans to age 26 FDA can approve more generic drugs driving prices down and breaking monopolies and protections against inequality for gender, disabilities and domestic abuse. And there will be significant tax credits to the small businesses with less than 25 employees, to help offset the costs of providing coverage to their employees.Obamacare will certainly challenge the nation over whether it wants a national system to be dependent on Washington or rely on dual federalism that protects freedom. The bill doesnt allow the American citizen the option, if they want to offer or accept coverage they have to have it or they will be penalized. That doesnt allow much freedom of choice, however at least they are being offered the opportunity to coverage.Despite the rocky road Obamacare has had to start, it has lived to see another twenty-four hour period and each day the kinks are worked out. This bill is here to stay. So, as cchange isnt always easy, the average American citizen can say that the law will be beneficial to them as individuals, their families, communities, and country.