Affordable Care Act also known as ObamaCare is a statute signed into a law by President
Barack Obama on March, 23 2010. This act is a part of a health care reform which among
other things will change and regulate requirements for employers group insurance plans as well
as private health plans and public health programs. Ever since ACA was introduced it has been
one of the most controversial health plans debated by all government parties.
A study done by Harvard University in 2009 indicated the biggest cause for bankruptcy
( 62% ) of all personal bankruptcies are over Medical Insurance and 78% of filers had some form of medical insurance.
Since President Eisenhower was elected, every president preceding him has tried to pass
health care reform. In fact it was the conservative think tank the Heritage foundation in 1992
that first proposed the insurance market place with an individual mandate. The first Governor to
over sign into state law was the first mandatory insurance mandate in the U.S was Republican
Mitt Romney.
History has shown us that anytime a National referendum, Social program, or civil rights law
was passed, public opinion was low and had many detractors and critics. In the turn of the
century, social security was criticized and even was the following election years opponent
running presidential platform to repeal social security. Slavery even divided one half of the U.S in
1860, and today everyone would think slavery under circumstance is wrong.
The Washington Post, shows the current poll that ten million new people