Obama Care

In an attempt to create a solution to health care, President Barrack Obama came up with a universal healthcare program called the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act, also known as Obama care. Obama care was signed into law on March, 2010. It has been the most significant repair to the United States healthcare since Medicare and Medicaid passed in 1965. In this paper, the key points that will be discussed are Obama care policy, it pros and cons, if it raises any issues with federalism and the policy's effectiveness.

Obama care is aimed at helping the underinsured to gain insurance. With this plan everyone would have health insurance regardless of income, or anything that would stop the person from attaining health insurance. The Affordable Care Act is a watershed in U.S. public health policy. Through a series of extensions of, and revisions to, the multiple laws that together comprise the federal legal framework for the U.S. health-care system, the Act established the basic legal protections that until now have been absent: a near-universal guarantee of access to affordable health insurance coverage, from birth through retirement (Rosenbaum, 2010).

Obama care is a name used by critics of President Obamas efforts to reform health care. It's a common term used to describe the Patient Protection and Affordable care Act of 2010. Obama Care contains many benefits, especially for low and middle income families and businesses. Obama Care also contains some obstacles for larger firm that don't insure their employees and certain aspects of the healthcare industry.

The Pros and Cons boil down to this, Obama care the average American has a lot to gain and little to lose, while some larger firms and consequently their employees may notice negative effects. (Obama care). Those who oppose the Act are concerned that it gives the Federal government too much control over personal health care decisions and benefits and they believe that it was designed to reduce overall health care cost by making services available to the 32 million who currently can't get insurance. They often use a hospital emergency room as their primary care physician, increasing cost for everyone. Also, for people who can't afford health insurance, the Federal government will pay the states to add them to Medicaid. Those who are in favor of the Act want lower health care costs overall by making it affordable for more people. Those who don't purchase insurance, and don't qualify for Medicaid, will be assessed a tax of $95(or 1% of income, whichever is higher).

Americans invited federalism to help us actualize a set of good-governance goals in operation of the new onion. We created checks and balance between local and national power to protect individuals against government overreaching or abdication on either side. No mention of the designation federal system can be found in the U.S. Constitution. Nor is it possible