Obama Care
OBAMACARE
Name: The Unknowns
Course: Introduction to American Government
Institution: Professor Luma
Date: 24 March 2015
History
Prior to the onset of the Obamacare, the American healthcare system was characterized by increasing cost of healthcare. For instance in the 10 years before the implementation of the Obamacare, total expenditure increased at a constant rate. These rising rates of expenditure were unearthed to be caused by the new technology and medicines; this is according to the 2008 report by the Congressional Budget Office. Other related causes included the third party systems that many Americans relied on and shielded them from the true cost of healthcare; insurance mandates; the state –level regulation that before the Obamacare affected small group market policies; “community rating”; no purchase of insurance plans across different states among other reasons.
In light of an average American household expenditure, health care took 5.1% in 1989, 5.3% in 1999 and 5.9% in 2008. According to Pipes (2010), “In 2009, the United States spent 17.3% of its gross domestic product on healthcare, the highest in the world” (p. 23).
In view of the statistics on the deteriorating healthcare system in the United States, the Obamacare was enacted in 2010. As Marcovici (2013) presents it, “The Obamacare, officially known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act , is a bill signed into law to reform the healthcare industry”(p. 2). The goal of the Obamacare is to provide the American people access to affordable quality health insurance and reduce the rise in healthcare spending.
Laws That Deal With Healthcare
The US law, the Obamacare, helps increase the affordability of healthcare and reduce the high standards of public and private insurance to cover the many Americans that are not insured. This it does by bringing forth subsidies, regulations, taxes and mandates to curb the increase of healthcare spending. The law has specific reforms it
Name: The Unknowns
Course: Introduction to American Government
Institution: Professor Luma
Date: 24 March 2015
History
Prior to the onset of the Obamacare, the American healthcare system was characterized by increasing cost of healthcare. For instance in the 10 years before the implementation of the Obamacare, total expenditure increased at a constant rate. These rising rates of expenditure were unearthed to be caused by the new technology and medicines; this is according to the 2008 report by the Congressional Budget Office. Other related causes included the third party systems that many Americans relied on and shielded them from the true cost of healthcare; insurance mandates; the state –level regulation that before the Obamacare affected small group market policies; “community rating”; no purchase of insurance plans across different states among other reasons.
In light of an average American household expenditure, health care took 5.1% in 1989, 5.3% in 1999 and 5.9% in 2008. According to Pipes (2010), “In 2009, the United States spent 17.3% of its gross domestic product on healthcare, the highest in the world” (p. 23).
In view of the statistics on the deteriorating healthcare system in the United States, the Obamacare was enacted in 2010. As Marcovici (2013) presents it, “The Obamacare, officially known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act , is a bill signed into law to reform the healthcare industry”(p. 2). The goal of the Obamacare is to provide the American people access to affordable quality health insurance and reduce the rise in healthcare spending.
Laws That Deal With Healthcare
The US law, the Obamacare, helps increase the affordability of healthcare and reduce the high standards of public and private insurance to cover the many Americans that are not insured. This it does by bringing forth subsidies, regulations, taxes and mandates to curb the increase of healthcare spending. The law has specific reforms it
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