Obama Care

Obama Care

Obama care is an act passed in 2020 in the United States of America. The bill aims at protecting patients as well as ensuring affordable care for them. Many critics in the US political had it that the initiative was the plan of the former president to improve the state of the health care but the name Obama still stuck on the project’s name. The act’s main objective was to retard the cost of health care, which was rising. By this, it enabled health insurances to be readily available and much affordable to all who were in their need. It further pushed for all the citizens to have health insurance, those who neglected to take the health insurances were to face a tax penalty. Thus, generally ensuring a state that was well covered medically and reduced incidences where one would lack medical attention due to inadequacy of funds.

The act much helped those who had pre-existing conditions; insurance companies much-neglected people who also had great expenses on health. (Amadeo,200) found that, as a result, they had first to resolve policies that were not to cover their pre-existing conditions. These patients spent most of their hospitalized times in emergency rooms because they could not purvey regular visits by doctors; furthermore, they were unable to come up with the cost of their ministrations.

References

Amadeo, k. 2020. What is Obamacare? The ACA and What You Need to Know. (updated 2020) Available at https://www.thebalance.com/what-is-obamacare-the-aca-and-what-you-need-to-know-3306065 [Accessed 20 April 2020].