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Repealing and replacing Obamacare was one of the rallying points for President Trumps presidential campaign, but has proven to be difficult even with a Republican-controlled Congress. There are a number of reasons that repeal and replace has been difficult, even though the Affordable Care Act (the ACA) was, at best, an imperfect solution to the modern healthcare crises. Public support for repealing Obamacare has lessened as people have become aware that Obamacare and the ACA are the same thing. Republicans have not been able to develop a plan that would provide better care for the American people without having an individual mandate. Finally, the for-profit medical structure currently in the United States makes it difficult, if not impossible, to provide significant reform. These barriers make it seem unlikely that Obamacare will be repealed or replaced in the near future.
Perhaps the most significant barrier to repeal and replace is the fact that support for repeal and replace was based, in part, on people not understanding Obamacare. A large segment of the voting population that supported repeal and replace did not understand that Obamacare and the ACA were the same program. In addition,...
When people began to realize what benefits they would lose if the ACA was repealed, popular support for repeal began to wane (Pramuck, 2017). It became clear that the voters would not settle for simply replacing Obamacare, but were demanding a better replacement.
However, crafting a better replacement was more challenging than many Republicans initially realized. One of the most significant ways that Obamacare improved health care access in the United States was by greatly expanding the pool of Medicaid-eligible people. Attempts to reduce those numbers would result in millions of people losing their health coverage. In addition, the health savings accounts that the replacement plans suggested as an alternative to health insurance would not realistically be large enough to see a person through even a minor medical issue. One of the problems is that the replacement bills wanted to eliminate the individual mandate. However, a viable replacement would have to expand coverage and make coverage more affordable for people, which is not possible under the current healthcare system without an individual mandate pulling healthy people into the system.
Finally, the replacement efforts…
Titles: The Affordable Care Act: Can It Be Fixed? The Future of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act The Pros and Cons of Obamacare The Effects of Obamacare on American Small Businesses Topics: What are the main arguments for and against Obamacare? How much should Americans pay for healthcare insurance? Why do Americans pay more for their healthcare than consumers in some other countries? Is Obamacare’s individual mandate unconstitutional? Outline: I. Abstract II. Introduction III. Body A. Background and Overview
Republican stance on the Affordable Care Act has been decisively antagonistic and contrarian, and was machinated to address the main problem with the ACA, which is that it was authored by Obama. Likewise, Republican hostility toward the ACA represented the conservative platform's ignorance of the issues and the reasons underlying the ACA in the first place. The ACA was a step forward in creating a more progressive United States
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The individual mandate is arguably one of the least popular provisions of the Obamacare, the health reform law that was enacted in 2010. Obamacare has received considerable attention in the past few years because of rising health insurance premiums. The rising health insurance premiums were at the center of the 2016 U.S. presidential elections campaign. Following President Trump’s election, Republican lawmakers have moved swiftly to repeal Obamacare’s individual mandate. GOP