The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act‚ commonly called the Affordable Care Act or colloquially Obamacare‚ is a United States federal statute signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23‚ 2010. Together with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act amendment‚ it represents the most significant regulatory overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. The ACA was enacted to increase the quality and affordability of health insurance
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In 2013 the states were given the opportunity to expand on Medicaid under the affordable care act. With this expansion the government would pay a 100 percent for the first three years and reduce down to 90 percent over ten years. Many of the southern states chose not to expand and went on to search for private insurance companies to help cover the cost they would be losing in the future years. These states include Texas‚ Florida‚ Georgia‚ Missouri‚ North Carolina‚ Virginia‚ Louisiana‚ Oklahoma‚ and
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impeach Obama. One reason is that he is putting our nation further into debt. The second reason is that he is not putting the American citizens first. The final reason is that he is putting our nation’s security at risk. Now some may argue that we should not impeach him because he is helping the ecology. Let us look at the reasons and then you can decide does the one good thing really outweigh all of the bad. The first thing we need to look at before we look at the reasons we should impeach Obama is
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OBAMA CARE Obama Care and health care reform is the same thing. The official name for "Obama Care" is the Patient Protection and the Affordable Care Act‚ a bill signed into law to reform the health care industry. Some aspects of Obama Care health care reform are already enacted. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law March 23‚ 2010. Over 100 million Americans have already benefited from the new health care law. The Obama Care insurance requires that all insurance
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Amber Harris Diane Mercer Honors English 1 23 April 2016 Affordable Care Act Affordable Care Act is the notion of affordability and the role of health insurance in making otherwise unaffordable health care affordable (Nyman and Trenz 264). The Affordable Care Act gives every American a right to health care through Obamacare. Millions of Americans have benefitted by receiving insurance coverage through the ACA. Many of these people were unemployed or had low-paying jobs. Some could not work because
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Barack Obama became the first african american president‚ sending a wave of change and inspiration for women across the country. Obama became the forty-fourth president of the united states when he beat out John Mccain and his running mate Sarah Palin for the 2008 president. He served two terms in office‚ with his last term ending in 2016 with the election of Donald Trump. Before the election of Obama the oval office had been anything but diverse‚ with white men ruling for two hundred and twelve
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back to the terrorism issues during Barack Obama’s service in the White House. ISIS is one of the most well known terrorist groups that have executed many maniacal attacks on the U.S. within the past eight years‚ but Obama had the audacity to leave each incident ignored. Barack Obama should have spent more of his effort reducing or removing terrorism threats in America than he did during his presidency because it makes our country a target for other terrorist groups‚ parts of our country are now physically
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Agree or disagree with the following statement and justify your answer: “the election of President Obama was not a victory for the civil rights movement t but a sign of the increased diversity of the American population‚ which is generally more willing to accept people of color.” I agree‚ President Barack Obama’s victory was due to our society acceptance to a diverse America. Our society no longer holds those narrow minded believes we use to have years ago. He won the presidency because people
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When Obama was elected‚ he inherited the issue of the economic crisis from the Bush presidency. Unfortunately‚ he had to solve this issue before moving into some of the promises he had made to the American people during his campaign. Some of the decisions he made just to lighten the blow of the economic crisis were somewhat contradicting to his initial promises. Although Obama knew of the upcoming battle he had to face with the economic crisis‚ he made grand promises to the public‚ promises such
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The Affordable Care Act‚ Helping or Hurting? Merriam-Webster’s definition of socialism is “any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods”. The Affordable Care act permits the U.S. Government to strictly regulate the health care system‚ almost to the point of eventual monopolization. The act is also known as “Obamacare”‚ even though it is a program Democrats have sought to pass
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