By: Anthony Petri
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, is an act created to help the citizens of our country.
Obamacare has caused so much controversy and even ran into problems when healthcare.gov was launched. All this controversy is
still on the rise. Obama seems to be under relentless attack within the politics, citizens and various news anchors points of view. The question is, why?
From my insight on this issue, the law has been created to benefit current insurance holders, but has caused a major concern for people who are not able to afford insurance. Many health care provisions are already in effect saving on the cost of coverage for qualified applicants. This has caused anxiety to a great extent because taxpayers being content with their current plan.
Obama said, “You can keep your current plan.”
There are around 44 million Americans who currently are unable to get health insurance. One of the major things Obamacare does is help these individuals to get health insurance through expanding Medicaid and Medicare and offering cost assistance to Americans who cannot currently afford health care. Most Americans were required to have health insurance by Jan. 1 or pay a fee on their year-end taxes. Many Americans will be eligible for subsidized health insurance costing anywhere from 0 to 9.5 percent of their taxable income. Subsidized insurance can be purchased through the Health Insurance Marketplace.
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