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Healthcare in U.S. / Constitutionality of PPACA
Meaning of Quote This legislation was passed to comprehensively reform the United States Health Care system. Other supporters of the act claim that it was passed to end a crisis in the healthcare industry. The act attempts to enhance availability of affordable healthcare, to provide consumers with protections against discriminatory practices by health insurance companies in terms of underwriting and to reduce uncompensated healthcare using a comprehensive set of economic regulations and tax measures. In March of the same year, the president signed the Act into law, marking the most significant shift in healthcare policy since the establishment of Medicaid and Medicare in 1965 (Kamiat, 2012).
Constitutionality of the individual mandate PPACA
Meaning of Quote
The meaning of the quote "deviance is in the eye of the beholder" is that whatever is deviant to one may not be to another. The differences in cultures, environments and traditions in the world mean that whatever one society may view as deviant may be the convention or the norm in another. Similarly, at the individual level, what one may view as deviant, another individual may not (Samara, 2012).
Many organizations, political parties, societies and individuals all struggle to be the ultimate judge of what behavior can or cannot be classified as deviant in correlation with social, religious, political, and or moral positions of these entities. Instances of this social struggle include situations where organizations such the anti-abortion movement, the creationist movement or animal rights groups fight for or against certain causes. Members of these movements are trying to make their positions politically and legally recognized through their struggles (Samara, 2012).
Constitutionality of the individual mandate PPACA
In the year 2010, members of congress passed the PPACA act which stands for the Patient Protection and Affordable...
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This act, however, emerged as a highly debated issue in the public sphere primarily because of its minimum coverage provision. This provision that is also known as individual mandate has been the subject of many suits. Quite a number of people claimed that the congress might have, in passing PPACA, overstepped its constitutional boundaries. As this matter moved through the judicial systems, many courts have disagreed on the matter of whether the individual mandate provision of the act is an exercise of legislative power within constitutional boundaries (Kamiat, 2012).
Another provision of the act that has been disputed is the issue of severability. The issue is whether other…
References
Kamiat, J.L. (2012). PPACA and the Individual Mandate: A Healthy Approach to Severability. Fordham Law Review. 80 (5). Available at: http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/flr/vol80/iss5/9
Miller, T. (2012). The Individual Mandate: Ineffective, Overreaching, Unsustainable, Unconstitutional, and Unnecessary. SAGE Publications Inc.
Samara, S. (2012). ESSAY: "Deviance is in the eye of the beholder. Blogspot. Retrieved on 1st October, 2015 from http://googleweblight.com/?lite_url=http://stephensamara.blogspot.com/2012/08/essay-deviance-is-in-eye-of-beholder.html?
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