Obamacare. Opposing Views
Affordable Care Act is a statute signed into a law by Barack Obama on March, 23 2010. This act which is also known as Obamacare is a part of a health care reform which among other things will change and regulate requirements for employers’ group insurance plans as well as private health plans and public health programs. There are a lot of pros and cons to this reform and a lot of aspects of the act are being misinterpreted or misunderstood. Although this reform was designed with the best intents, certain aspects of it seem to be questionable. One of the aspects that raises the most disputes among the political leaders is the funding issue associated with the implementation of this act. In order to finance the new program 500 billion dollars were taken out from Medicare funds to be set aside to fund Obamacare. So that this reform can be better evaluated, it is important to understand all the perspectives of the reform, and evaluate who will benefit from it in a short and in a long run. Aside from political dispute, one of the important perspectives of this reform is the regular people who will be affected by it, including both employers and employees, and their concerns that this reform is raising. Employers are feeling anxious of being forced into providing health coverage to their employees and extra economic costs that they will be forced to face in order to do so. Some business owners are even worried of their overall ability to stay in business if they experience extra expenses. Employees are worried about the costs that they will carry, as they will be forced to cover part of the costs associated with mandatory health coverage, and what will remain of their paychecks in order to be able to provide for their families. And the last major category at stake is doctors and health care providers themselves who are wondering what will happen when additional 32 million Americans get medical insurance, and who