AFFORDABLE CARE ACT

The ongoing conflicts concerning the constitutionality regarding the Affordable Care Act (Obama Care)

The ongoing conflicts concerning the constitutionality regarding the Affordable Care Act

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Act on the protection of patients and health care affordable) is a law passed by the 111th Congress of United States and signed by President Barack Obama, in march 2010. Announcement of this law, leads towards conflict and, many opponents, even file suit against president Obama. Health care in the United States is so expensive; it gave birth to the term medical tourism. Medical tourism is the law to go in a different country for medical operations. It is the main component of the reform of the welfare system in the United States, with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (in) signed the same day. One of the key features of the election of Barack Obama in 2008 was the establishment of a major reform of the health system to create, at the federal level, a "universal health insurance," without imposing mandatory health coverage with the exception of children. It's been nearly a century that Congress was debating the issue of health. Republican President Theodore Roosevelt spoke of this in his program, but was defeated in the 1912 presidential election by the Democratic candidate Woodrow Wilson. In 1965, Democratic President Lyndon Johnson had enacted the Medicare and Medicaid, insurance for the elderly and the poor, respectively, after having agreed with him half of Republican votes in Congress. The Democratic president Bill Clinton also tried himself to pass an ambitious project in 1993, but failed (Elmendorf, 2010).

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) publishes a report which shows, the implementation of Affordable Care Act provide the states with much flexibility and resources to improve health benefits and protect the consumers. Since the law has provided and offered around $ 2.8 billion of funding to states. This is a part from the total funds that are available under the law to help the states by implement new measures to safeguard consumers, to expand health coverage and improve the quality of health care. Affordable Care Act is built on the basis of providing States with the resources and flexibility they need to build a better world, health care more affordable.

Since the end of World War II, the United States of America has played a key role in the affairs of the world. It has helped more if not all the major conflicts in modern history. Of its political culture, many have attributed the success of the United States for acceptance and fair treatment of different races that formed the company unique. As the last remaining superpower in the world, it retains the most technologically advanced military power allowing dominance in any conflict. It also houses the currency most widely accepted throughout the world market. This is the reference for the various democracies that look to the United States for advice and assistance. Being the most powerful country, one would expect ...