Harry Chin
English 1A
2013 May 26
Professor Knapp
Dear Taxpayer of the United States of America,
As of today in American
society, there are millions of Americans who are suffering from sickness and many
other unhealthy conditions, but they do not have health care. A universal
healthcare plan in America would cause a price reduction in health care and
increase the affordability for the people. Within the recent years, president Obama
created this program called the Obamacare to combat this problem. Obamacare is
a national health care plan that basically makes health care more accessible
for a lot of uninsured Americans. This program regulates the health insurance industry
by reducing spending in health care. This plan is aimed towards people in lower
to middle social class and the problems of financially affording health care. As
taxpayers, we should realize that this issue is a severe problem in our own
society that we should acknowledge. Obamacare is plan that America needs
because the plan emphasizes how healthcare should be a necessity to everyone.
A big issue arises when
we talk about the term healthcare. There have been many people who have been
rejected in seek of medical help. Sometimes these denials are due to
preexisting conditions, or to experimental or unnecessary procedures. Preexisting
conditions are fairly common. Some preexisting conditions can consists of heart
disease, cancer, asthma, high blood pressure, arthritis, and many more (Sorian).
The unfairness of how certain requirements need to be met for insurance
companies to allow you to have coverage is quite ridiculous. The insurance
companies are basically putting a price tag on people such as you and choosing
the cheapest (healthiest) people to sell their insurance to. There are also
some people that are denied healthcare coverage and sometimes must struggle to pay
their medical bills in their own expense.
This Obamacare plan was
intended to combat this problem by reducing the overall wellness health care
price to make insurance coverage obtainable to the people. If we have more
money, then essentially we can use it to help many people. People who do not
have insurance coverage are at daily risk at trying to stay as healthy as
possibly. I can relate because I have many friends and relatives and family who
currently don’t have health insurance and says they never been to the doctors. That
really shocked me because at that time, I was still young and I thought it was
normal to visit your doctor about once every year not to mention many
individuals go undiagnosed every year because they could not manage to attend
regular medical checkups also due to no insurance coverage. For the people in
my family, friends, and other close acquaintances who cannot afford health
insurance, according to Obamacare Facts, Obamacare states is that if they meet
the requirements, the federal government will pay the state to add them to
Medicaid.
The second major issue
that Obamacare handles with is children who have pre-existing conditions
(Binder). Many of the kids that go to school have been denied health insurance
because of a pre-existing condition. They are denied because treatment for
these problems are costly. Pre-existing conditions are certain health conditions
that individuals are born with and at a young age without any health insurance,
With Obamacare intact, insurance companies cannot deny children coverage for
pre-existing conditions. This benefit will apply to every child by America in 2014.
To the whole society,
there are always controversy on a new law whether it will benefit or harm the
people. In terms of Obamacare, there are many who support this by claiming that
it benefits the society and others who claims it’s a detrimental effect. Some
reason people are opposed to this plan because they argue that their own
individual health care cost will rise. They believe that if hospitals start
accepting all kids for healthcare, instead of the price lowering, the healthcare
cost may actually increase for the population as a whole. They also state that
it is advanced one size fits all health system solution which is not true at
all. To trial this, the government implemented this act called the Affordable
Care Act which is very similar to what Obaamcare had to offer, but temporary
prior to the Obarmacare. The Affordable Care Act has already benefitted
millions of people by providing them insurance and has yet to see an increase
in healthcare for individuals who are already covered. Simply put, viewing the
statistics from several provision acts, the plan seems as though it is a
positive to many Americans. In 2011, about an estimated 86 million Americans
used provisions in the Affordable Care Act to get care and aid through their
insurance plans for no cost. As a result, over 2.5 million seniors have saved
about an estimate of 1.5$ billions dollars in paying for prescription medicine
(Binder). According to CNNMONEY, statistics show that in 2012, approximately 84
million Americans were uninsured. Out of this many Americans who had no
healthcare coverage, we can see that the provisional act has already help even
more Americans who are uninsured and has not affect ones who are insured.
Many people also argue
that Obama care will
increase tax and some individuals have done pre-emptive attacks on a law that
is not even officially fully has been taken into effect. The Obama plan was
widely discouraged by a number of people. Taxpayers were discouraged by the
idea of paying for other people’s needs and in this case, other people’s health
care. This is a justified reason for an individual to have this belief, but in
the long term it helps the economy as the whole. We have to think about the
many who are uninsured. How many of Americans have friends or close relatives
who do not have health insurance? As an individual who has always had
insurance, I wouldn’t be fully able to understand the struggle of those who do
not. Something
has to be done about health care or else many uncovered Americans will just
keep continuing to suffer. As stated in the CNN MONEY news statistics, the fact
that almost three-quarters of Americans saw health care reform as an urgent
priority in the fall of 2009. President Obama finally came up with the
Obamaccare plan. As many americans who have suffered from lack of coverage, People
also argue a
Healthcare is an issue
that still needs to be dealt with. In terms of the world, healthcare is just a
miniscule problem along with many other detrimental issues, but more
importantly, healthcare is an issue that effects our daily lives. The president is currently trying to adapt the
research upon the effects of the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. The
goal of this plan is to meet the needs of all Americans while keeping all the costs
down. At the end of the day, while Americans are still on the fence about the
Affordable Care Act as a blanket concept, and when the people are asked about
this topic, of course they will respond in a supportive manner. When a new law
gets introduced, of course there would be many debates on whether it should be
passed. But from statistics shown, the need of Obamacare is mandatory and
within the near future, many Americans will realize and appreciate that this
law had passed and bettered their society as a whole. As taxpayers, we have to
be proactive and make a good decision by redirecting where our money towards
helping individuals who lack health care.
Works
Cited
Binder, Leah. "The Five Biggest
Problems In Health Care Today." Forbes. N.p.,
21 Feb. 2013. Web. 2 June 2013.
Luhby, Tami. "Millions can't
afford to go to the doctor - Apr. 26, 2013." CNNMoney. N.p.,
26 Apr. 2013. Web. 2 June 2013.
Sorian, Richard. "Protecting
Americans with Pre-existing Conditions | HealthCare.gov." Home |
HealthCare.gov. N.p., 18 Jan. 2011. Web. 1 June 2013.
"What is ObamaCare / What is
Health Care For America?" ObamaCare Facts: Obama's Health Care Reform.
N.p., n.d. Web. 2 June 2013.
