Obama Care Reform Essay

Eng. 101
Paper # 4

Healthcare reform has been the topic of countless debates for many years. In America today, the condition healthcare is in has definitely caught citizens attention, but is not the ‘change’ most were hoping for. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), formally known as Obama Care, signed into law on March 23, 2010 by President Obama himself. Its purpose is to provide affordable health insurance to all Americans but primarily to low and middle-class citizens as well as to cut health care cost. Lately the act has done the complete opposite costing citizens more than promised. In order for the ACA to be as effective as it should, healthcare should be reformed because of the cost, the need of improvement in the quality of care, and
low coverage due to affordability.
When it comes to our healthcare system, most can agree that it is very difficult to obtain because of the price.
It seems as though the cost of healthcare is more expensive with the ACA rather than with most Americans current health insurance. According to statistics, the cost of healthcare under the ACA has skyrocket to 7.3% in the past decade. For a family of four, the average cost of healthcare has just nearly doubled. With a high bill to pay for the insurance itself. Those who are insured by the ACA are paying for quantity of care and not for the quality of it. Recently there has been a shortage in doctors and nurses in hospital facilities across the country. Not having enough healthcare providers leave unattended to patients. When these patients are seen, for instance, they are not taken care properly as they should because that doctor may be in a hurry to move to the next patient. As a result this patient might have been miss diagnosed or not diagnosed at all even though there is indeed something wrong with them. Not only will patients not be seen with the right intensions but they will have longer waiting times. Usually in a hospital, doctor’s office, or clinic there is a waiting period for that patient to be called upon but with only one professional seeing everyone, makes the waiting times even
longer.
Alongside longer wait times, the lack of quality of care results in a great number of Americans being treated quicker and better because of the coverage they may have. For a patient who may have insurance that covers everything walk’s in after someone who does not can be called to be seen first. This goes to show that no matter what condition a patient may be in, if they are not covered to a certain extent, that same amount of attention and time is not going to be putting into helping them. For instance, a patient with extreme pain in their stomach goes to the emergency room and waits but another patient comes in with just a cold is called back to be seen within seconds of turning in there paperwork. Just because someone has better coverage does not mean they should be treated more closely and carefully than the next.
Not only do some patients get less of a treatment from doctors and nurses but some get no treatment at all. Due to such expensive coverage, it has been a struggle for American citizens to afford this affordable healthcare insurance with the ACA. 25% of Americans have little or no health insurance to cover their costs. As a result of this, Americans are dying more rapidly. Statistics have shown that 101,000 people die each year mainly from not having any health insurance at all.