Harry Chin
English 1A
2013 May 26
Professor Knapp
Dear Taxpayer,
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. –Example-
Preexisting conditions are fairly common. 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 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 pay their medical bills in their own expense.
This Obamacare plan was
intended to reduce the overall wellness health care price by making solutions
obtainable to people who presently can’t manage insurance coverage. I can
relate because I have many friends and relatives and family who currently don’t
have health insurance. At hospitals, they often use the hospital emergency
rooms as their main wellness health care solutions; this increases price
for everyone. Not to mention many individuals go undiagnosed every year because
they could not manage to attend regular medical checkups due to no insurance
coverage. For the people in my family friends and neighborhood who cannot
afford health insurance, the federal government will pay the state to add them
to Medicaid. The income requirement is expanded up to one hundred percent of
the federal poverty level.
The second major issue
that Obamacare of 2010 deals with is children who have pre-existing conditions.
Many of the kids that go to school have been denied health insurance because of
a pre-existing condition. Pre-existing conditions are certain health conditions
that individuals are born with. With Obamacare intact, Insurance companies
cannot deny children coverage for pre-existing conditions. This benefit will
apply to everyone in America in 2014. Many people are opposed to this plan because
they believe that asa result for accepting all kids for healthcare instead of
the price lowering, the healthcare cost may actually increase. They also state
that it is advanced one size fits all health system which is not true at all.
Obamacare has already benefitted
millions of people by providing them insurance. 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 which is very similar to the
Obamacare plan 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. 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 Amiericans who are
uninsured.
Many people are still against the pre-emptive
attacks on a law that, for the most part, hasn’t gone into effect yet. The
obama plan was widely discouraged by a number of people. Taxpayers were
discouraged I nthe idea of paying for other peoples needs. This is a justified
reason for an individual to have this belief, but in the long term it helps the
economy as the whole.Something had to be done about
health care .The fact that almost three-quarters of Americans saw health care
reform as stated in the CNN MONEY news statistics as an urgent priority in the
fall of 2009. President Obama finnaly came up with the Obamaccare plan. As many
americans who have suffered from lack of coverage,
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 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. The need of Obamacare is strong and within
the near future, many Americans will appreciate the fact that this law has
bettered their society. As taxpayers, we have to be proactive and help support
where our money should be directed towards.
Works
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"Millions can't afford to go to the doctor -
Apr. 26, 2013." CNNMoney. N.p., n.d.
Web. 27 May 2013.
"What is ObamaCare / What is Health Care For
America?" ObamaCare Facts: Obama's Health Care Reform. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 May 2013.