President Obama's Health Care Plan
President Obama’s health care plan, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), commonly known as ObamaCare, ensures that all people have some type of health insurance and that insurance agencies are not allowed to discriminate against individuals with preexisting health conditions. Although the idea of everyone having access to health care via health insurance is ideal and worth working towards, the ObamaCare program is not advantageous for the majority of Americans because of higher tax fees, over worked doctors, and decreased quality of health care and should be defunded by congress. House Republicans won't pass a budget unless it repeals and defunds parts of ObamaCare and Senate Democrats won't pass a budget unless it doesn't. This led to a Government shut down. Republicans say that ObamaCare is an unpopular program that many americans have no idea what it is. “Kaisers most recent poll finds that 42 percent of Americans aren’t sure about whether Obamacare is law at all. Seven percent of survey respondents believed the Supreme Court overturned it, and 12 percent thought Congress had repealed it”(Ressler). This concludes my point on many Americans not knowing what ObamaCare does or why it is a law. Why should we fund something that most of the population has no knowledge about?
The middle to upper class Americans are affected by ObamaCare’s tax increase more than anyone. How fair is it that the ones having to pay the highest taxes are the most successful Americans? If an individual collects an income of more than $200,000 a year, they pay 3.8 percent tax on investment incomes and 0.9 percent on Medicare taxes (Matthews). The issue behind this is that an estimated “one-third of American households received Medicaid, food stamps or some other means- tested program in 2010” (Matthews). The number of Americans supported by Medicaid is only increasing and the Americans with higher incomes have to support the people with a low job income along with the
The middle to upper class Americans are affected by ObamaCare’s tax increase more than anyone. How fair is it that the ones having to pay the highest taxes are the most successful Americans? If an individual collects an income of more than $200,000 a year, they pay 3.8 percent tax on investment incomes and 0.9 percent on Medicare taxes (Matthews). The issue behind this is that an estimated “one-third of American households received Medicaid, food stamps or some other means- tested program in 2010” (Matthews). The number of Americans supported by Medicaid is only increasing and the Americans with higher incomes have to support the people with a low job income along with the