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Obama Care Recusal Non-Sense

Obama Care Recusal Non-Sense

The Facts

This article discusses the healthcare system of a country depends upon some factors. These factors play a significant role in the growth and development of health sector of a country. In addition, the stability of the healthcare industry is also dependent upon these factors; these factors are service delivery in the health industry, the quality of healthcare, the stability of financing in healthcare and the healthcare insurance.

President Barack Obama, on February 28 endorsed a measure that he said would allow states to opt out of some elements of the health insurance reform law signed in March 2010 by giving them greater flexibility to provide alternative means of achieving the federal law's goals. Under the proposed Affordable Care Act (Obama Care) bill, beginning in 2014, states would be allowed to develop feasible alternatives to the federal law, as long as they added comparable numbers of people to insurance rolls without increasing the federal deficit (Walshe, 2003).

Legal Issues

In March 2010, Congress passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), which requires all U.S. citizens to carry health insurance, and provides federal subsidies to people who are not covered by their employers and cannot afford to purchase their own health insurance. Republicans bristled at the plan, arguing that it increased the government's role in the health care system and insisting that it amounted to socialism. The PPACA remained controversial even after it was passed, with Republicans attempting to have it repealed and challenged in court.

Opponents of mandates for health coverage argue that the main aspect of health care reform is reducing the overall cost of health insurance. They assert that, without lower costs, forcing people to carry insurance would be pointless. David Cutler, an economic adviser to Obama during his primary campaign, notes, "You'll never get someone to buy something if it's not affordable and not accessible. People just don't do it."

Opponents of health care mandates also argue that, because those mandates will require individuals to carry minimum coverage, they will, according to Cowen, "limit competition in the content of policies and also the expense of policies." Cowen argues that requiring insurance companies to carry people on minimal plans will limit the range of policies the companies can offer.

Critics argue that, in addition to cutting Medicare, the Ryan plan adheres to many long-standing Republican political positions; the plan includes, for example, tax cuts for the ...