Argumentative Essay On Obama Care

My current short term goal is to become a medical assistant. Over the past ten years medical assisting careers have increased by more than eleven percent with the largest increase predicted at twenty three percent over the next ten years. America currently employs approximately 591, 300 medical assistants. The average annual income of medical assistants is approximately $30, 590; roughly $14.71 per hour.1 However, with the current possibility of a repeal in Obamacare, we could see the opposite in the next four years.
It is estimated that a total of as many as 360,000 citizens could lose coverage in some states, with over one to two million citizens estimated countrywide. Under Obamacare, an estimated 27 million uninsured received coverage.
It is estimated that at least that number will be unable to be insured or be unable to afford coverage under a repeal.2 The repeal seeks to withdraw federal monies allocated to cover uninsured Americans by closing the gap on State level deficiencies, which will also effect Medicare expansion.
Another aspect relative to the repeal is the downsizing of healthcare jobs if case enrollment decreases.
No patients; no workers. Realistically, the expansion of jobs in the medical field is a natural progression of higher demand to meet the supply of services to enrolled, insured patients. The more insured patients treated, the better the bottom line of the hospital and/ or private physician’s offices. Having coverage makes it easier for providers and hospitals to have some guaranty of payment for services rendered, and a minimal waiting period until payment is received. When a patient is uninsured, it is a certainty that the payment may or may not be paid, and in most cases, will not be paid in one payment but smaller payments over longer time periods or not at all.3 In many cases these often result in a collections account being created. Forbes magazine reports that over 165 million jobs in healthcare were created by 2013 from Obamacare because of the mandatory coverage provisions.4
Also, uninsured patients primarily do not seek preventive measures for illness but tend to frequently visit the ER once an illness has become unmanageable or presents symptoms, which results in larger medical costs for routine problems that under a covered plan would be treated by the physician at a lower price and a lesser misuse of
resources.5
For there to be healthy Americans, we need to have Americans have access to medical services, and workers to provide those services. According to Peter Grier, staff writer for the Christian Science monitor; the rise in healthcare jobs could be attributed to the mandated coverage of Americans with the installment of the Affordable Care Act during president Obama’s term as president. With the possibility of repeal, there can also be the possibility that those jobs could also be lost. The current Occupational Outlook Handbook projections for now leaves room for optimism and opportunity that as an aspiring medical assistant, I will have the chance to not only gain useful employment in my field, but serve my fellow man as well.