Obama Care Reform

The United States budget is in major need of reform. Each year the country plunges further into debt due to poor money management and ineffective programs costing the country billions. A large portion of the annual budget is comprised of entitlement programs, almost all of which are overpowered and wasteful. The three main ones are The New Deal, The Great Society and The Affordable Healthcare Act. While the intent of these initiatives were to aid those, their effects in reality are just the opposite, and many of them oppose the intent our founding fathers had for America. The New Deal was a series of pension programs implemented by FDR from 1933-1938 in order to fix the extreme loss of economic advancement and personal growth of everyday
Its goal was to control healthcare costs and ensure that every citizen owns health insurance, however 32 million people still remain uninsured and the amount of money families actually save is 60% less than was promised. Most of its mandates are illogical as well. Women who are too old to have children are still required to pay for maternity coverage. Furthermore, it eliminated competition America thrives on between healthcare companies, which caused coverage prices to skyrocket rather than drop. Not only is this act not fulfilling its promises and further increasing America’s debt, it is also unarguably unconstitutional. According to The Tenth Amendment, all powers not specifically delegated to the federal government are reserved for the states and citizens, but the imposition of an individual mandate requiring every citizen to purchase health care is a supreme overreaching by the government by creating law from the bench. The excuse used by the supporters of Obamacare is that it is an exercise of the federal government's expressly delegated power to regulate commerce among the states. However, this is not an example f regulating commerce in the slightest, rather this program forces people into commerce under pain of a financial penalty. The constitution does not give government power to force people to buy a product
Entitlement programs, especially Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and The Affordable Care Act must be reformed in order to begin to fix the deficit issue. They comprised a third of the national budget in 2014, which is double that of ten years before. But steps can be taken such as raising the Social Security age since modern life spans are longer, and completely doing away with mandated coverage. The goal should be to make poverty more escapable, not less miserable. Furthermore, the US must resist the social democracy mindset that Europe has adopted, because in such a society each entitlement becomes a right and everything can become an entitlement. Citizens must keep the healthy governmental skepticism, for a government that can give you everything can also take everything away. Ultimately though, these programs have gained such a significant stronghold on society is because the church is falling short in its duties to care for the poor and less fortunate. Only by stepping up as Christians allowing God to work through us, can we truly make the best impact and help those in