Obama Care

Obama care aint nobody got time fo dat! Why was healthcare an issue? There were many problems with health care like the death spiral for example where people without health insurance eventually spiral into a jobless, hungry, and poor American and then die because of those three contributing factors. Health Care was also too expensive to a lot of Americans to afford which goes back to the death spiral term. Another problem that health care came with was that it didn’t cover everybody or insurance companies had policies that not everybody met so the insurance companies refused to cover them or didn’t want to cover them enough which also sometimes led back to the death spiral. The death spiral was/is a term that Susan Starr Sered and Rushika Fernandopulle used in the book “Uninsured in America.” My definition of the death spiral is basically that average Americans have trouble being able to afford healthcare. When people can’t afford healthcare they will /do eventually get sick and won’t be able to afford to go to the hospital and try and pay 100% of the hospital bill which nowadays is outrageous. When people get sick and don’t get better they call into work and when they call into work to often they will eventually get fired leading them to become poor and eventually homeless, which then leads to hunger and then they eventually die of either sickness and/or starvation. Hence the term “death spiral.”1 Nearly 46 million Americans are without insurance coverage in the United States of America2 Medicaid only covered half of the Americans, whose income put together, were below 200 percent under the poverty line in 2003. In this case it becomes very difficult for the average working American to even be able to afford health care, beside the people who struggle just to make ends meet while living from paycheck to paycheck. After all that we turn out attention to the poor people living in America, since they have nothing basically, they don’t feel the need and/or