Persuasive Essay On Obama Care

Introduction:
Healthcare is such a growing issue in the United States today, especially with the debate and controversy over whether to repeal or keep the current healthcare system. There is a lot of debate over the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare and the new bill. This act had done a lot of good for those who were uninsured, however, there were still many problems with the act that should be addressed, especially when there is so much talk about changing the current system for a newer one. Especially when one looks at the federal changes made in 2012 to reimbursement and the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 (Larrat, Marcoux, & Vogenberg, 2012).
There are a multitude of factors that one must look at in both the current plan, and the one that may replace it. For

This shifts the populace towards using the emergency room more and of course opening even more holes in the hospitals budget. What can and cannot be covered by reimbursement plans is another problem that should not only be addressed, but also something that is not just endemic to the Federal government’s payments. Because the patient does not usually see the whole bill to a visit and there are not many laws in place to protect against this, prices of care are often inflated beyond what they should (though part of this is to cover for the aforementioned holes caused by the emergency rooms). This in turn means price controls are virtually nonexistent. For those with good insurance it is not usually a big deal. However, with this, the hospital must collect the bill, and due to cost and low reimbursement levels, it can be a hassle even when dealing with insurance because there are times where negotiations for reimbursement rates do not always end in a