Affordable Health Care Act

Affordable Health Care Act

Introduction

There are political and historical reasons that can help to understand, but the reality is that the Affordable Health Care Act, as it is officially called the reform, despite its unpopularity, the most ambitious project of this presidency and his main legacy to date. The ruling of the Supreme court along with the background information is detailed out in the article Health Care Reform and the Supreme Court (Affordable Care Act) published in New York Times.

Discussion

The intent of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is to provide all Americans health insurance (The Wall Street Journal, 2012). Making it shall take thirty-five million additional people, in part by awards from the government and partly easier to buy their own insurance. It all started on March 23, 2010, when President Barack Obama signed the ACA into law. The law is organized in during the next five years, and while it is of millions more, there are still 10 million Americans who are not covered. The ACA has become controversial because it is so complex (The New York Times, 2012a). Controversy has also arisen because few Republican ideas have been incorporated into the law. There have been heated reactions to the alleged individual mandate. This requirement had inspired the considerable litigation, leading public final arguments before the Supreme Court of the United States (The Wall Street Journal, 2012).

Opponents of the law challenged them this "individual mandate" or obligation health insurance, seeing an intolerable interference from the federal government in the everyday lives of Americans and a hidden tax (The New York Times, 2012c). For all 26 states at the origin of a referral to the Supreme Court, accepting that compel Americans to purchase health insurance amounted to granting Congress the right to force them to buy, they want it or not, other services or products. People are much divided and still confused about the scope of the law. In the latest survey on the matter, in January, 36% favored manifested revoked and 21% for maintenance pronounced. The majority was in favor of some sections of the law, but contrary to others. 71%, for example, supported the ban on insurers discard customers for preexisting medical conditions. As with European public systems, the system proposed by Obama rests on the principle that the expenditure share healthy patients with high probability that the first one day also need healthcare (The New York Times, 2012a).

All American citizens ...